plasterboard

The drift mine, near Appleby-in-Westmorland, sits under rolling farmland and supplies the raw materials to make plasterboard for the building industry, something it has been doing for almost 50 years.

"The water got into the plasterboard and the kitchen which I've only cooked one dinner in."

She said plasterboard in her ceiling became so damp it bulged and started dripping.

It was discovered when two noticeboards and layers of plasterboard were removed from a ground-floor wall.

They found Pirie had cut a hole in the plasterboard to hide a blocker device and had covered it up by hanging a framed picture.