Next week we were supposed to be having a decorator in. Today we started to clear the room. On moving a bookcase, the plaster behind it was bulging, and poking it made it fall off. It's like wet sand, and basically fell off over a wide area. There's a smell of damp, and bits of black rotten wood appear to be in amongst the bricks.
Evidently this is a problem. I am resigned to it being thousands to fix, so I need to know how to best go about that.
Do I need a surveyor, and if so, how do I find one? Google has already taken me to websites saying don't think about using anything but a member of the PCA and then to other sites saying not to touch the PCA. I know I don't want some bloke at random telling me I have rising damp and doing thousands of pounds of worthless work, but I don't know how to avoid this.
What might a good plan be? Do I need a chartered surveyor? Is that an appropriate thing? And then what, a contractor? And again, how does one find reliable trustworthy people?
You can tell I'm way out of my comfort zone with this one.
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