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steve52
I'm back! Yippeee
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- bottesford scunthorpe
thanks all for your advise or derision i have taken it all on board and now have a plan,
damp proofing
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Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
bacon curtains?
I could so eat that right now!!Wall's (of) Sausages, of course!!
(Gets coat, goes to butchers)
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
Yes, I was quietly relieved , having googled "house made of sausages", to note they weren't another particular type of meat.bacon curtains?
Anyway, how did this thread get off the subject of damp proofing?
Outside bridging of the DPC is normally the main cause . Digging a gully and back filling with pea shingle will normally sort the problem out if the internal plaster isn't that bad . Internal rubble under the floor is another problem that bridges the DPC because of lazy people that sweep the rubbish under the floor .
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
Don't forget the air-bricks! You need a good breeze under a suspended floor.
When I had an East Anglian house I found the bricks were very porous and rising damp a problem. I used a silicon based liquid to coat the exterior (it doesn't affect the appearance and internally I drilled holes and injected the same stuff myself. I also lowered external soil levels and coated the concrete kitchen floor with some self-levelling resinous compound, expensive to buy but much cheaper than a new floor and totally effective (for the couple of years I stayed there, anyway!). A damp house became a nice dry one.
Strangely, the French don't go in for DPCs very much as the thinking is to use a building material that discourages damp have good drainage and ventilation. Where walls are contacted by soil you can get vertical dpcs made of moulded plastic and these are very effective.
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When I had an East Anglian house I found the bricks were very porous and rising damp a problem. I used a silicon based liquid to coat the exterior (it doesn't affect the appearance and internally I drilled holes and injected the same stuff myself. I also lowered external soil levels and coated the concrete kitchen floor with some self-levelling resinous compound, expensive to buy but much cheaper than a new floor and totally effective (for the couple of years I stayed there, anyway!). A damp house became a nice dry one.
Strangely, the French don't go in for DPCs very much as the thinking is to use a building material that discourages damp have good drainage and ventilation. Where walls are contacted by soil you can get vertical dpcs made of moulded plastic and these are very effective.
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