Rising Damp

Poppo

Having researched rising damp I'm getting conflicting information about dealing with the problem. There are some experts out there who say it doesn't exisit and the damp is caused by using the wrong type of plaster and others who say it must be treated radically by boring holes in the walls and injecting with a chemical barrier. Basically I have a small victorian terraced redbrick which I bought about 8 months ago. It was in pretty bad shape but dry everywhere and certainly no smell of damp. Following renovation however, where it received a C1 BER cert, there now appears to be damp patches on the walls in the downstairs rooms. The guy who did the BER survey came back to have a look for us and says its classic rising damp. I can't understand how its damp now when it wasn't before the work began even though it hadn't been lived in for years. Any ideas or recommendations would be very helpful. There's a lot of cowboys out there. Thanks

BE_MIEI

Sounds like the renovation work has caused the problem. What renovation work was carried out?

archtech

It may be rising damp, but it could also be interstitial condensation or a combination of both as a result of the renovation works.It would however appear that that course of renovation works chosen was not the ideal one for the property in question.

It is very hard to give anything conclusive without inspecting the property.

Joey the lips

i would have a surveyor look at it. My aunt had terriable trouble getting rid of this.. Eventually she got a lad from down wexford to look at it. i was speaking to her last night and just remembered reading this. She cant remember what he done but she is happy enough.

If you need his number just pm me. You can always just talk to him.