rising damp

As you can see from this first picture, we are having a massive infiltration problem around the chimney breast. To give some general information, we are at the ground floor of a two storey Victorian house. To the right of the picture there is the external wall. We have been living in the...

Advice on damp needed please! We live in a house built circa 1900 - salt deposits have started appearing on the chimney breasts in the attic bedrooms - had several roofers out. One said the pointing on the stack was fine, another said needs re pointing, another said render the stack to...

Hi I've posted in the trade talk forum the following link, but am being asked there to ask in this forum, about whether it is fine that the replacement 'packing wood' 'pan wood' installed between the physical damp course and bricks above, is a remedy to resolve the rising damp we have in a...

Hi guys, I have a section of wall that is damp to the touch. This is a stone and brick wall in a building dating back to late 1700’s. Interestingly it is only the last metre or so of the wall that suffers, the rest running across the house seems to be fine. I’ve added some photos of both sides...

My chimney breast had severe rising damp and damp patches all around skirting board level. I found that the hearth was completely made up of soil, so I dug it all out and laid a damp proof membrane and concrete hearth. I'm now looking to have the chimney breast replastered (well, preferably...

Hi, hope you can advise... i purchase my c1900 flat and during bathroom renovation i discovered low down damp which i presume if rising damp. I'm looking at DPC'ing this with DryZone, any good? Also from the pics, i've taken the plaster off down to the red bricks, they are quite brittle so is...

Hi guys I'm about halfway through renovating the first of three ground floor rooms in my home, which was built around 1900 and have a couple of queries about the damp I have. We live in an area with a high water table (we're about 25 metres from the River Severn) and the house hasn't had...

Hi all, I have lived in my a 1950's semi for 20 years and finally decided to investigate the cause of the small patches on walls and raised carpet. No mould, just shading of a few places on walls that haven't really changed in the years but as I decorated at the beginning of the year with a...

Hi there, This is my first post on the forum, nice to meet you all! I have just bought my first house, apart from all the sockets falling off the walls it all seemed okay until Monday. It rained overnight and I woke up to a large damp patch around my bedroom window. It hasn't rained since...

Hi everyone First time buyer here who is keen to listen and learn from the experienced people. About 8 months ago we bought a 1930's end of terrace property. Since then we have noticed a significant issue with 'rising damp' and as such we have some dry-rot in the floor joists and floor boards...

Not sure if there was a better place to post this. I just had my 3 bedroom house redecorated and soon after doing that I noticed water marks/stains in 3 different places on the ground floor. 2 marks are in the same room, left and right of chimney breast And the other mark is in the living...