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rising damp
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That's hanging damp....lol
 
Right guys here's The proof. Rising damp British television sitcom ran from 1974-1978 leonard rossiter, Richard bekinsale played roles in this show etc etc.just googled it, so rising damp only lasted 4 years,so all these rising damp companies are just spinning it out,it's a bloody con!!!!!!! Google never lies:RpS_thumbsup:
 
sliemasteve said:
del said:
Rising damp.....worlds greatest con, if it's damp, find the course of the damp. It will not be rising. put any brick or block in water and see how high it rises..it won't.

Sounds like Flynnyman. Anyway I accept the challenge. I give you odds of ten to one that I can demonstrate that a brick will absorb water and it will rise up the brick. How much money do you want to deposit? I'll meet up anywhere in the UK and without the use of a special or trick brick. I look forward to the silence that will follow and the prevarication of you avoiding the stumping up of any cash.
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There is an experiment under lab conditions somewhere on utube and the damp only rised about an inch more down to saturation i think, certainly not a metre i think they were reproducing the effects on a pier on the UK coast somewhere.
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del said:
sliemasteve said:
Get a sponge, and put some water in a bowel, and see how high it rises on the sponge. Fook me you can't get any more absorbent than a sponge, the water will rise a bit in the sponge, then stop. However, the only true rising damp is salt damp, not found in the uk .

Not flynny by the way
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With respect and not wishing to get involved in a vendetta how much money are you putting up. Odds ten to one are pretty good. And where do you want to meet for the demonstration?
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Look mate, if you are that cocksure of yourself, post a vid, or make a vid. Why do we have to bet ?. As for meeting, you will have to come a long fooking way to see me, as i am in the Canary Islands. Will have to agree to disagree on the issue
 
Yeah weirdo beardo and the Canary Islands are volcanic rock sorounded by sea and no rising damp.
 
Look mate, if you are that cocksure of yourself, post a vid, or make a vid. Why do we have to bet ?. As for meeting, you will have to come a long fooking way to see me, as i am in the Canary Islands. Will have to agree to disagree on the issue
 
del said:
Look mate, if you are that cocksure of yourself, post a vid, or make a vid. Why do we have to bet ?. As for meeting, you will have to come a long fooking way to see me, as i am in the Canary Islands. Will have to agree to disagree on the issue
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Its not a question of being cocksure. Your argument is rather like saying that gravity does not exist when everyone can see that it does. There is endless amounts of info on the internet about rising damp. The building Research Establish, Britsh Standards, a university studies organisations independent of commercial interest but del is cocksure that everyone apart from Irish and Flynny and himself are right and the rest of the world are wrong ... give us a break from your cocksuredness and provide any one reason to support your point of view and I for one will join your cause.

A simple search on the internet reveals this;


Extract from Remedial Technical Services RREVIEW AND CONCLUSION:
Based on practical and supplied evidence from a large number of sources,
including peer-reviewed Institutions:
1. Rising damp is a well understood and identified feature which can occur in
some buildings – it is a FACT, not a myth, and NOT originated or perpetuated
by the UK damp-proofing industry
4. ‘Rising damp’ has been observed and reported from at least the early 1800’s,
ie, for nearly 200 years
5. Rising damp is well recorded in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, France, Italy,
Spain, indeed, across Europe, South Africa and the USA, all of which have produced
authoritative peer-reviewed publications on this subject. It is not solely a UK problem!
3. Rising damp does NOT affect all houses without physical damp-proof courses
2. Rising damp has some unique features which can be readily diagnosed using
basic and authoritative analytical methodology
6. Electrical moisture meters are extremely useful as an aid in diagnosing dampness
and associated problems (hygroscopic salts) provided they are used intelligently
and their limitations and performance well understood.
 
sliemasteve said:
Its not a question of being cocksure. Your argument is rather like saying that gravity does not exist when everyone can see that it does. There is endless amounts of info on the internet about rising damp. The building Research Establish, Britsh Standards, a university studies organisations independent of commercial interest but del is cocksure that everyone apart from Irish and Flynny and himself are right and the rest of the world are wrong ... give us a break from your cocksuredness and provide any one reason to support your point of view and I for one will join your cause.

A simple search on the internet reveals this;


Extract from Remedial Technical Services RREVIEW AND CONCLUSION:
Based on practical and supplied evidence from a large number of sources,
including peer-reviewed Institutions:
1. Rising damp is a well understood and identified feature which can occur in
some buildings – it is a FACT, not a myth, and NOT originated or perpetuated
by the UK damp-proofing industry
4. ‘Rising damp’ has been observed and reported from at least the early 1800’s,
ie, for nearly 200 years
5. Rising damp is well recorded in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, France, Italy,
Spain, indeed, across Europe, South Africa and the USA, all of which have produced
authoritative peer-reviewed publications on this subject. It is not solely a UK problem!
3. Rising damp does NOT affect all houses without physical damp-proof courses
2. Rising damp has some unique features which can be readily diagnosed using
basic and authoritative analytical methodology
6. Electrical moisture meters are extremely useful as an aid in diagnosing dampness
and associated problems (hygroscopic salts) provided they are used intelligently
and their limitations and performance well understood.
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You are not too bright, I did not say damp does not exist, what I said is, it cannot rise as you seem to think. Also you seem to be getting confused with damp, rising damp, and salt damp.

As for you asking for a reason to prove my point, my point is based on experience, damp is caused by many things, it does not rise....you see there is that thing called gravity, which stops it. How do you feel about falling damp ?, or does that not exist ?

Having done probably 70 to 100 dpc jobs, only ever seen a few damp walls, which were supposed to be rising damp, but each time we found the course, ie, pathway higher than dpc, etc. As said before, the only true rising damp is salt damp, I know this because I deal with it on a daily basis.

As for damp meters, waste of time, you could stick one of those on your dick, and it would show damp FFS !
 
eddie said:
who are you doing that for?i do all wises work in the east,also do you feel they have changed the high impact finish,seems to take a feckin age to set
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is it dampwise your with theres 1 based in cumbernauld in glasgow. i was with aps preservation specialists.aye takes longer 2 set.
 
del said:
You are not too bright, I did not say damp does not exist, what I said is, it cannot rise as you seem to think. Also you seem to be getting confused with damp, rising damp, and salt damp.

As for you asking for a reason to prove my point, my point is based on experience, damp is caused by many things, it does not rise....you see there is that thing called gravity, which stops it. How do you feel about falling damp ?, or does that not
exist ?


Having done probably 70 to 100 dpc jobs, only ever seen a few damp walls, which were supposed to be rising damp, but each time we found the course, ie, pathway higher than dpc, etc. As said before, the only true rising damp is salt damp, I know this because I deal with it on a daily basis.

As for damp meters, waste of time, you could stick one of those on your dick, and it would show damp FFS !
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Writes like, argues like gets annoyed like - Flynnyman. As Occum would say its -Flynny or a plagiarist.

 
Weirdo Beardo, who is probably realy drunk now beard sucking up the last dregs of French wine, i think you are the one guilty of Plagarism on this site.
 
Basically copying. The expert admits his English and French is shiite. But he's an expert in cut copy paste, and talking boollox in between :RpS_thumbup:
 
Cheers Irish, love ure words of wisdom, I am gettin the jist of it now.I thought it was a forum, sometimes seems a bit like university challenge when slimeysteve posts. Maybe, I am speaking Out of turn cause I am relitivy new here, but obviously there is some history involved here.or I am just a thicko:confused:
 
FreeD said:
Why bother putting in a dpc if there is no such thing as rising damp?
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After your previous embarrassing posts/replies (involving slimy aswell ) I think you should do the 5 day course to finish off your apprenticeship.

That would make you more qualified than slimy and a day behind your bricky mentor :RpS_thumbup:
 
irish_spread said:
After your previous embarrassing posts/replies (involving slimy aswell ) I think you should do the 5 day course to finish off your apprenticeship.

That would make you more qualified than slimy and a day behind your bricky mentor :RpS_thumbup:
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lol all your posts are full of s**t Irish your as bad as Flynny. So if you were building an extension on your house Irish would you bother putting in a dpc? Ok im out now lol
 
Building regulations in holland wouldn't specify having to insert a physical Dpc plastering course man, so in reply, in holland no, in the Uk, I would have to.

I don't see many damp rising up the walls company's in holland.

Explain ?
 
Fatarm said:
Sorry guys, but WTF does plagiarism mean?:confused:
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I think it's Basically copying. The expert admits his English and French is shiite. But he's an expert in cut copy paste, and talking boollox in between :RpS_thumbup:


hope that helps mate :RpS_biggrin:
 
bubbles65 said:
I think it's Basically copying. The expert admits his English and French is shiite. But he's an expert in cut copy paste, and talking boollox in between :RpS_thumbup:


hope that helps mate :RpS_biggrin:
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ah cut n copy cut n copy experts, plagiarism at it's best lol thanks bubbles
 
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irish_spread said:
Building regulations in holland wouldn't specify having to insert a physical Dpc plastering course man, so in reply, in holland no, in the Uk, I would have to.

I don't see many damp rising up the walls company's in holland.

Explain ?
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Interesting, I didn't know that, whats there method to deal with rising damp then?
 
I built many houses in Holland in the late 70s and no DPC also in West Australia they just put a waterproofer in the muck for the first couple of courses in this country its law you have to put it in.
 
I don't think damp rises up through bricks, well only a little, not enough to warrant calling it rising. I can't really find a decent defintion of rising damp. How does it rise, what constitutes damp?

It can rise through plaster a lot more though. I come across it more on plaster where the salts have been deposited on the face of it and they then attract moisture from the air. That aint rising damp. I'm tempted to say I think it's a con too, and damp proof treatments are expensive and sometimes ineffective. As people have been saying again and again on here, find the source of the damp and deal with it. That's the best advice you can give someone unless you do want to rip them off.

Talking of holland, I came across some dutch air bricks the other day on a house. They said they'd tried everything over the years to stop the damp including chemical damp treatments and the wallpaper wouldn't stay on the walls. Then they had these air bricks installed. well they're not exactly bricks more like wooden dowels in the bricks with a hole for ventilation. Anyone come across them?
 
This product has been advertised in the Sunday broadsheets for many years dont know if it works but something must be right to afford that kind of advertising as far as i am aware there is only one company what does it.
 
I think they were ceramic pots. Basically mini circular air vents that increase airflow. I think they experimented with them at palace of Westminster
 
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