Damp Problems!

miss_divine

Does any one know of any companies in Wirral that do free damp surveys?

The problem is that our private landlord is trying to re-plaster our flat without fixing the rising damp problems coming from the cellar and the huge gaps that lead to the cellar as well.

Anyone who has experience with in this would be a great help.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

motherofstudents

How do you know it's rising damp ? If you get a free damp survey you risk them diagnosing various issues in accordance with what they are selling ie. selling dpc - you have rising damp. I appreciate if you are renting you don't want to have to spend money but that is the only way to get an impartial result. Do you know any builders who might have a look for you ? Damp can be caused by so many things so your LL should really be sure what the source is before just plastering.

miss_divine

The rising damp has been confirmed by the EHO, who have been out a few times. The cellar underneath our flat is riddled with damp, and that's the source for the internal walls. The external walls are damp due to a leaking downpipe. We're going to see if we can ask a friend of my brothers' to come to have a look. But we need someone who knows about damp professionally to give a report so we can pass it to the landlord. He seems to think he can plaster over everything and have done with it, but it is making us ill and it will only return within a few months if he carries on with what he is doing.

aurion22

Can anyone can recommend a firm in the York area? I need to identify the cause of a huge damp patch which I've only just discovered in a rarely used ground-floor bedroom. I don't know if it's rising damp or due to the shallow drain which the builders put in to replace an old ceramic one which was deep. Now the pipes just sit on the surface and I suspect that fallen leaves have caused the water to splash back onto the wall since the extension was completed in October 2010. There's also a big hole (which I'm sure should have been filled in) behind the new drain allowing water to collect and seep up the wall.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.