Apologies if this isn't quite the right place for this...
I recently bought my first house, a Victorian end terrace with solid stone walls and arranged over three floors. The house is at the bottom of a hill so what is the ground floor (where the kitchen and living room are) is in the middle, bedrooms upstairs and then three rooms downstairs including the main bathroom.
That's very nice, I hear you say, but why are you telling us?
Well, the floor down there is concrete and one room in particular has some pretty strong damp problems. My guess is concrete was poured on top of the foundations at some point but without a DPM or DPC being installed.
Unfortunately I can't afford to dig it out and do it properly, but is there anything I can do to reduce the damp and maybe put down a nicer floor? I was thinking maybe a layer of bituminous paint might do it - but does that just mean I'd be pushing the problem further up or risking damage to the foundations? It's not a basement exactly, but it's a bit basement-y because of the street level being a foot or so above floor level.
Any advice would be very, very appreciated.
I recently bought my first house, a Victorian end terrace with solid stone walls and arranged over three floors. The house is at the bottom of a hill so what is the ground floor (where the kitchen and living room are) is in the middle, bedrooms upstairs and then three rooms downstairs including the main bathroom.
That's very nice, I hear you say, but why are you telling us?
Well, the floor down there is concrete and one room in particular has some pretty strong damp problems. My guess is concrete was poured on top of the foundations at some point but without a DPM or DPC being installed.
Unfortunately I can't afford to dig it out and do it properly, but is there anything I can do to reduce the damp and maybe put down a nicer floor? I was thinking maybe a layer of bituminous paint might do it - but does that just mean I'd be pushing the problem further up or risking damage to the foundations? It's not a basement exactly, but it's a bit basement-y because of the street level being a foot or so above floor level.
Any advice would be very, very appreciated.
