Help with damp!!!

lizziebell*80

wallbash wrote: »

Big pat on the back for that company

But shame on you for not noticing the waterfall.
At least you know that a 'gutter' man will be cheaper and money well spent.

Not actually sure how long the waterfall had been occurring for, think it is manily due to small garden growing at that particular point in said guttering, but due to height and overhang we can't get up to dig it out ourselves - not to mention our guttering is old and rubbish anyway I really hope once it is all new and shiny that the damp dries out and goes away!

simcla

Had DPC people round and they tested a wee core from the wall and said was not rising damp hence must be penetrating damp and since noticed that the gutters pour out like Niagra Falls down that bit of the wall, so hoping that fixing that should help out with the damp wall.......

They sound like a decent company - Not trying to sell you an injected DPC you dont need and telling you how to sort it A core test is the best way for test for dampness BTW, not a damp meter, as it they test for salts in the wall, not on the surface, where it may just be condensation.

The moisture is patchy, not on both sides of walls, from 1m to 2m high, not on all walls and its patchiness seems to follow what would be the mortar joints in the brick work. I'm reluctant to say it is rising damp. What do you think?

I dont think "rising" damp would rise that far up a wall (2m) - but i am not sure if the bricks are of a type that are impermeable to water then the moisture could "wick" up the mortar joints through capillary action? My other thought would be that there may have been problems in the past, what was the reason for installing the concrete floors, possible rotten joists maybe?