Hi I got a house from the council and before we got it the pipes burst and the walls are all wet cupboards are damp and mouldy, How Long would it take to dry out?

Depends on a lot of things... what the weather is (how warn, how dry)... what type of walls they are... if the windows are open... or can be opened. etc.

What country is this in? Construction norms vary country to country. How interiour walls are built in the USA is NOT the same as they are in Italy for example.

Scotland

If there is already mold on the walls you have a bigger issue. There will be much more mold INSIDE the walls and drying out is not going to fix the problem. All wet materials should be removed and the studs treated with a mildewcide

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Originally Posted by ballengerb1

If there is already mold on the walls you have a bigger issue. There will be much more mold INSIDE the walls and drying out is not going to fix the problem. All wet materials should be removed and the studs treated with a mildewcide

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In Scottland they likely have a sand based plaster over masonary walls in the interiour of the house. Gypsum board and hollow walls are going to be rare in Europe, except in northern Europe or Parts of the core of Western Europe wood framing is fairly rare. Takes different paints and different techniques than we are accustomed to in the USA and Canada.

Water pipes and wiring is buried in groves cut into the walls and plastered over including the lines for the radators assuming they have them in that unit. Some of the older ones simply have a central heater and the hot air just makes its way around to the rooms as it can.

They also have iron or steel water pipes as the norm and not copper or plastic. At least in any of the older buildings.

I assume its an older unit because of the 20-30 year lifespan of the iron water pipes used over there. (I base this on personal observations having lived and worked in Italy and have been back and forth nearly 27 years so far). Never been to Scotland yet but I did see this in France... Germany, Austria and in Southern Egland and Whales.