There are a few visible signs of damp, although it often goes undetected. However, in older or empty properties, this made become detectable through its smell. These include peeling paint and wallpaper, crumbling plaster, mould growth, black spots or spores on walls and ceilings, and rotting skirting boards and flooring.
Diss
Diss is an English market town as well as electoral ward in the East Anglian area of Norfolk, near the border with Suffolk. It had a population of 7,572 in 2011. Diss railway station gets on the Great Eastern Main Line from London to Norwich. The town depends on the valley of the River Waveney, round a plain covering 6 acres (2.4 ha) and as much as 18 feet (5.5 m) deep, although there is one more 51 feet (16 m) of mud. The town takes its name from dic an Anglo-Saxon acceptation either ditch or embankment. Diss has a variety of historical buildings, consisting of an early 14th-century parish church and an 1850s corn exchange still in operation. Four miles east of Diss is the 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum at the previous RAF Thorpe Abbotts landing strip. In March 2006, Diss came to be the 3rd town in the UK to sign up with Cittaslow, a worldwide organisation promoting the principle of "Slow Towns". Nevertheless, it has since left this campaign.
