Hi
First post on here, so bare with me please!
We live in a Victorian Town house, with solid, random granite walls. The outside has been rendered and newly painted (within the last year I would guess) and LOOKS in good condition. However, in our 2 front bedrooms, we are getting damp. Its in the 2 'outer' corners of the house. We are semi detatched, so one lot of damp is very near our party wall, and the other is the exposed front corner.
We have had 3 damp specialists look at it, and all have offered different solutions. Only one has attempted to even explain why we are getting it. Our roof and gutters look in good order.
I have made a very very uneducated guess, and think that we are getting it due to two raised 'columns' of render at the corners of our house. (Not sure if that makes sense, but its the best I can do!) I think that they are only for decorative purposes. Could these be causing it? At the very top, where they meet the roof, they protrude out from under the guttering, and they have no flashing on top of them from what we can see.
Any other ideas? Could this be the cause, and if so, can we add flashing without re-doing the entire roof? If you have had ingress problems with solid granite walls I would be interested to know how you solved the problem please.
(Am also concerned that our floor joists etc may be getting wet/rotten, but we can't see any evidence of this at the moment, as the damp doesn't seem to go as low as the floor)
Many thanks in advance!
First post on here, so bare with me please!
We live in a Victorian Town house, with solid, random granite walls. The outside has been rendered and newly painted (within the last year I would guess) and LOOKS in good condition. However, in our 2 front bedrooms, we are getting damp. Its in the 2 'outer' corners of the house. We are semi detatched, so one lot of damp is very near our party wall, and the other is the exposed front corner.
We have had 3 damp specialists look at it, and all have offered different solutions. Only one has attempted to even explain why we are getting it. Our roof and gutters look in good order.
I have made a very very uneducated guess, and think that we are getting it due to two raised 'columns' of render at the corners of our house. (Not sure if that makes sense, but its the best I can do!) I think that they are only for decorative purposes. Could these be causing it? At the very top, where they meet the roof, they protrude out from under the guttering, and they have no flashing on top of them from what we can see.
Any other ideas? Could this be the cause, and if so, can we add flashing without re-doing the entire roof? If you have had ingress problems with solid granite walls I would be interested to know how you solved the problem please.
(Am also concerned that our floor joists etc may be getting wet/rotten, but we can't see any evidence of this at the moment, as the damp doesn't seem to go as low as the floor)
Many thanks in advance!
