damp

Hi All I’ve bought a c1910 detached house knowing it had damp issues in the subfloor, the damps been there for a while! . I’ve fixed the issues causing the damp, cleared the vents and in the procsss of drying out the walls and concrete base. I will need to address the sleeper walls and the...

Hi, Hoping someone can help. I have a wall (double skin cavity wall) that had damp. The damp problem has been fixed and the bricks are now dry. I have painted it with sand + cement tanking slurry with a waterproofer added. Can I get away with bonding and then skim? I’ve read somewhere that you...

I have a Victorian property with a basement that is becoming damper over time. One easy fix is to add more ventilation through our coal Chute. Currently, the chute is covered by a square metal cover that can be lifted off the hole in the ground just outside our kitchen window to access the...

We had a survey back on an old cottage built of granite. obviously there are some damp issues. I am trying to convince my husband we should not be put off by this as if the source of the damp is identified then it can be remediated. I will copy what was written in the report below 1. Down the...

We moved to a 1950s detached house in September which has a cupboard space under the stairs. I've noticed some quite heavy condensation inside it which you can see in the attached pictures. The cupboard does smell faintly damp and there was a lot of mould / blown plaster on the walls here before...

Any advice on the below? We are renovating our house and found a very damp inside corner of an external wall, where the original wall of the house was knocked through to a single storey extension. You can see in the photo the wider footing of the house. Our builder thinks this is because the...

Had a new single story extension built. It's got a concrete floor and block inner wall. It was made watertight at the beginning of March and heating installed at the start of April. It had DPM and insulation installed and passed off by BC. The floor is still very damp in places and the...

Hi all, Recently moved house and spotted these wet bricks. They are below the damp course and it's only those bricks that get wet. They do dry out during the day but sometimes they are wet in the morning even if it's not been raining. Perhaps some condensation? Wet Bricks by RichieSixty...

Please can someone help me I’m so desperate I bought this house and everything was done from top to bottom inside before I bought it I seen the house once and now 4 months later theres damp and paint flaking off and damp patches Does anyone know what this could be?

Hi - old house , semi, cellars , in town with lots of hills . Water pooling on basement floor after it rains . One part of the wall only at front of house , external wall adjacent to a path down the side of house. Path paved as is front garden .Happens when it rains . Generally always damp at...

Hi I have a flat which seems damp, paint peels off the walls, the electric sockets corrode inside. Is the answer to hack off the plaster half way up and inject with chemical dpc? At some point I will probably need to insulate the place maybe internally. I have seen a video that seems to be...

I have a brick garden store, approx 4’ x 10’ that is very damp; I had the roof replaced a while ago, so it’s penetrating rather than leaking. There is currently no ventilation. I’m thinking I probably need to install air bricks at either end to get a through flow of air, but have read...

Hi there, looking for some advice on repointing work. last summer we got a guy in to repoint the parts of our house that he said needed doing, and he did a great job. However, we had no idea that it would make the house look so patchy (see first pic) so got him back in this week and basically...

After a leak in the shower and horrible mould, I stripped everything back to the suspended timber floor and found that the adjoining room, the kitchen, has a concrete floor. It appears there's no DPM under the concrete floor and the soil/sand under the concrete floor feels wet, though less wet...

Hi all, I have read lots of threads about damp but find that no two issues are the same. My problem is on an internal wall, that is a "peninsula" wall rather than a wall on the perimeter. There are a combination of damp patches, a damp patch from the skirting and bubbling lining paper. I think...

Hello I have a damp issue, paint peeling and water marks at the interface of the original building and extension. I looked at the roof. See two photos. The photos show the pitched roof of the extension, where it joins the original building wall. The render on the wall of the original building...

We had our chimney capped and repointed during the summer, however have noticed a couple of damp patches at the front and to the side. the two discoloured/ brown bits are reading high (about 37/8) but everywhere else seems fine. anyone have any idea what else could be causing it or how to...

Hello all, I've had a leak with the shower fitting which, which is now resolved. However I had to smash out some tiles to expose the piping. I noticed that my stack pipe is filthy, and wondered why it is has these rust trails (image 1 & image 2). I'm wondering if this is an issue, I'm guessing...

Hi, Anyone able to help me with this one. There's a damp patch appeared at the top of the chimney breast in the master bedroom of our late 1800s terrace, it was already a bit of a stain but since the weather got cold, it's got moist. I've ripped the paper off and It's very localised and doesnt...

Hello, I have a utility room that is wet from condensation, freezing cold to the touch and really drafty with 2 air bricks and a extractor fan! The plaster is all shot and it's only single brick all external walls with an internal door separating it from the bathroom. I assume this may have been...