Sentence examples for damp building from inspiring English sources

"It had been sitting in a damp building since 1932," he said.

IT was good to hear that the chef and owner Robert Horton had relocated an American Bistro from a cramped damp building on Marbledale Road here to a roomy dry space last occupied by Daniel's.

But can a landlord really trust an online agent to handle the very human issues of finding tenants and dealing with issues as they arise, such as broken washing machines, or damp building up in the corner of a room?

She shares a bathroom and kitchen with her neighbours, and she is waiting for the old, damp building to be torn down in the hope of getting enough compensation to buy a new home.

It smells like walking into a very old damp building," Alan Derrick said.

Also in March, the Shelleys moved with Claire and Alba to Albion House at Marlow, Buckinghamshire, a large, damp building on the river Thames.

The presence of hydrophilic fungi is considered an indicator of building dampness (Flannigan and Miller 2001), yet quantitative measures of hydrophilic fungi in damp buildings have not had been studied in relation to health effects.

It spoke of food shortages, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and damp buildings with flooded basements, defective drains and marauding rats.

Faced with poor social amenities and old, decaying, often damp buildings with rents inflated by the costs of renovation, demands of the tourist industry, and wealthy foreign residents (who are often absent from their houses), Venetians have elected in ever-increasing numbers to move into modern apartments in the mainland boroughs of Mestre and Marghera or on the Lido.

These include exposures to toxic lead in paint and water, mercury, pesticides and pests, PCBs, poor indoor air, and poor lighting in dirty, dusty, or damp buildings.

It can also inhabit damp buildings.