Damp fraud / rising damp myth

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Jurek

Jurek

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Just been come across this article on Heritage House. Very interesting. Pretty adamant that rising damp doesn't exist. Says that in Holland they roll about laughing when told about the English damp courses. They dont install them. Not sure if this has been up here before, whether i got redirected from something i was reading on here or elsewhere:

Managing damp problems in old buildings

"Stephen Boniface, former chairman of the construction arm of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS ), has told the institute’s 40,000 members that ‘true rising damp’ is a myth and chemically injected damp-proof courses (DPC) are ‘a complete waste of money’."

And I was thinking about going on a course and submitting a few assessments because of the money involved... :RpS_unsure: could i sleep at night ....probably. if the cheque had cleared
 
Thanks Raggles. I was probably reading something in this section that redirected me :RpS_laugh:

It's agreat article, though.

"Nearly every case of so called rising damp is just condensation - the bottom of the wall is coldest, so moisture condenses near the floor - it doesnt rise!"

"Do NOT be talked into hacking old plaster off and re-plastering with gypsum, or worse still, waterproofing compounds, or so called 'waterproofing or renovating plaster'!"

Problem is, if someone is after a mortgage or remortgage, and that's what's asked for, that's what you'll have to provide. The lender won't give a toss about your theories.
 
why dont the dutch get "rising damp", then? in the past in particular, because a lot of their land is reclaimed / dredged?
 
i don't know either way. never really gave it much thought to be honest. replastered after a damp course many times but only started looking into it this week when i saw the "specialist" walk away with £700 for two hours work and thought it looked like easy money.
 
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surely if this was the case when you hacked of and applied vandex (or other) then re plastered the condensation would still be on the bottom of the wall but its not:RpS_unsure:
 
Jurek said:
i don't know either way. never really gave it much thought to be honest. replastered after a damp course many times but only started looking into it this week when i saw the "specialist" walk away with £700 for two hours work and thought it looked like easy money.
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The pump, wands (yes wands pmsl) and chemicals are not cheap marra so 700 notes for 2hrs ? i have injected ground floor of a house before and it has taken 2 days. It all depends on how porous the bricks are that are being injected. I was told that it was good practice to inject the bricks and not the mortar course so to my eye the photo's in that heritage home article are a shat job anyway.
 
it was the dryzone cream, or generic equivalent, raggles, with a caulk gun. drilled into the mortar. looked it up and it was less than a hundred quid for the treatment - for a generic brand - and he already had the gear. he was a cuunt anyway, charged the landlord for injecting a wall where the damp had come from a leak in the bathroom above ... :RpS_angry:
 
Holland has a method Of air bricks for condensation,this has proś and cons also, the RICS have differing views amongst their members re damp
 
doesnt look particularly attractice having them boxes all around your hose, though. and it would only work on cavity walls wouldnt it?
 
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The problem the industry has is that too many contractors rock up at a job, bang the meter into the wall and think that's a survey sorted lets start hacking off and injecting. When there Is so much more that needs consideration. So some poor customer gets a massive bill for work that probably didn't need doing and all damp proofing gets called bollox. The last thing I wanna be doing is hacking off plaster and injecting. It's normally a simple problem that can be sorted with a bit of investigation and common sense
 
I have always questioned rising damp...

Our flat that we are buying has a few damp issues but that is due to shitty airflow and badly fitted windows... Which will be sorted out as soon as we complete...

I also really dont like cavity wall insulation... surely that bridges the damp???

Danny
 
Danny said:
I have always questioned rising damp...

Our flat that we are buying has a few damp issues but that is due to shitty airflow and badly fitted windows... Which will be sorted out as soon as we complete...

I also really dont like cavity wall insulation... surely that bridges the damp???

Danny
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Not if cavity insulation done properly, cavity insulation with sand and cement sitting in between will, need a price for advice?
 
It did not take long for the damp deniers to turn up,:RpS_thumbsup: why did they put slate in old terrace houses when built maybe they was wrong, well am waiting for your reply eddie and flynnyman:RpS_thumbup:.
 
henry said:
It did not take long for the damp deniers to turn up,:RpS_thumbsup: why did they put slate in old terrace houses when built maybe they was wrong, well am waiting for your reply eddie and flynnyman:RpS_thumbup:.
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Worse than the holocaust deniers, they are costing us money
 
Feck the damp the real money is in Woodworm treatment over the years I have had ££££££££££££££££££
even did a guys wooden leg once:RpS_thumbsup:.
 
raggles said:
The pump, wands (yes wands pmsl) and chemicals are not cheap marra so 700 notes for 2hrs ? i have injected ground floor of a house before and it has taken 2 days. It all depends on how porous the bricks are that are being injected. I was told that it was good practice to inject the bricks and not the mortar course so to my eye the photo's in that heritage home article are a shat job anyway.
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dryzone mate you drill the mortar, it supposedly spreads through the sand cement , and works best when the area is wet it helps it spread throughout the mortar, who knows thought as it needs to be rendered afterwards to keep to spec , so i think the rendering might play a big part it in ..... Even if the injection failed etc , the damp cant get through the render
 
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