Worked room · 10 × 11 ft
Damp spare room
A stain behind the guest bed. Professional review is required.
A spare bedroom asked to become an office. The exterior wall has a tide mark. Soft layers are locked until moisture is cleared.
What Room Lab concluded
Professional review required
moderateFunction 62Stop decorating. Restore moisture first.
- Why
- Professional review required. East wall stain ~14" with odor. Do not seal, paint, or upholster over it. Recommendations that spend or finish the room are locked until a professional clears the flag.
- Caveat
- Still unnamed: source of water. Unknown is not cleared.
- Next
- Stop covering the stain. The mark is fully visible. No new textile against the wall.
This holds until: A qualified professional clears moisture.
Driven by Professional review required · Moisture. Moderate — enough is scored to rank, and the top two are close or something is unnamed.
Free moves first
Clear the primary walk
Remove anything that is not furniture from the walk, then look hard at Guest bed, which is what narrows it. Bags, mail, laundry, the chair that became a hook.
How to tell it worked: A body walks it without turning the shoulders.
Stop covering the stain
Pull the bed or rug off the tide mark. Photograph. Ventilate. Do not paint, seal, or perfume.
How to tell it worked: A professional can see the witness.
Then one reversible test at a time
Move the largest piece once
Shift the sofa, island, or bed off the crossing. Live with painter's tape marking the old footprint. Do not buy a new piece this week.
Measure: Primary path ≥ 36". Conversation or work still functions.
Not worth buying yet
- Another rug before the walk is clear. Rugs do not fix circulation. They hide it.
- Hardwired statement fixture. Electrical is a watch or professional review is required. Prove the path with plug-in light.
- Decorative storage cubes for the pile. A lid is not a sort. Empty the pile first.
- Paint, paper, built-ins. Professional review required. Budget routes to a professional first.