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Damp spot

  • 09-03-2019 1:21pm
    #1
    L4yercak3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭


    Hi folks

    I have noticed a damp spot at the rear of my garage. I live in a split level bungalow.

    It was not there before... The garage used to have a garage door that didn't lock and a boiler that was heating the garage with the heat it was wasting... I replaced the door with an insulated garage door and i put a new boiler in...

    This damp spot has only appeared in recent months.. Is this a ventilation because there is no heat or air entering the garage now

    Thanks for any advice


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  • #2
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,216 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    L4yercak3 wrote: »
    Hi folks

    I have noticed a damp spot at the rear of my garage. I live in a split level bungalow.

    It was not there before... The garage used to have a garage door that didn't lock and a boiler that was heating the garage with the heat it was wasting... I replaced the door with an insulated garage door and i put a new boiler in...

    This damp spot has only appeared in recent months.. Is this a ventilation because there is no heat or air entering the garage now

    Thanks for any advice

    That's rising damp.

    Check the outside to see if your drains are clear or if there is some sort of earth bank against that wall causing water ingress


  • #3
    L4yercak3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭L4yercak3


    There is an earth bank the other side of wall.. And to the right side of it. The house is built into a bank.


  • #4
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,216 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    You will have to have that taken back. It should never be resting up against the house. Unless someone has gone through the extensive measures of tanking and waterproofing the touching layers.

    If they havent, then the bank / earth will have to be pulled back from that wall it will eventually degrade the wall and cause structural harm.


  • #5
    L4yercak3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭L4yercak3


    The garage is below house and built into a embankment almost Please see picture.. Garage is below steps and back wall of house above it.. I can't see anywhere where water would be entering. Checked drains also
    :confused:


  • #6
    mad m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,016 ✭✭✭mad m


    Any pipes in wall?


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  • #7
    L4yercak3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭L4yercak3


    Not in that location to my knowledge.. There is a bed room above garage. Must check underfloor boards... I had a leak finder out for something else but they never discovered leak there....thanks for replies guys


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