Where to start - looking for someone to treat damp (independent)?

JustAnotherSaver

zaax wrote: »

Who ever put in that drive way should be shot. There should be at least 3 bricks between the damp proof course and the ground. You MUST solve that problem as it is doing considerable damage to the house. Also you need to ask why your surveyor didn't catch it.

So you're saying an extra level of brick, as from the photo i see 2 layers?

So then, i suspect that before they put the pavers in, there possibly was 3 layers of brick & the drive was possibly just grass, or something not as 'high' as a paving brick (my guess is 50mm & then whatever bedding they take).

Which brings me to a thread i was thinking of making because i can't decide - what to do with our driveway.
There are many options...
more paving as currently stands
Flags that look like paving
flags of various types. Indian flagging is my favourite
Tarmac
Concrete
Other options.

I don't know much about this game, but i suspect it would benefit greatly from aco channeling (either the resin metal topped ones or the plastic hexdrain, either/or) regardless of what we do with the drive.

My question to you (as you seem to know more than me due to your 3 layer comment), what would you do from here?

I'm guessing dig up the drive, dig down deeper & bed the drive in further down so that you then see 3 layers of brick on the house & not 2?? (since we're toying with either patching in (just replacing the grass) or starting afresh.

fluffymuffy

To be honest, when I asked for a photo that what what I expected to see.

JustAnotherSaver

Thing is, without someone pointing it out, as i know nothing about this i see that & think that's how it should be. It's only when someone says - hang on that isn't quite right am i made aware of it.

And i wonder if this is like the rising damp story - in that you can say that it isn't right & someone can say no actually it's fine, or it's fine but you need something to channel the standing water away that's all & i'm just in the middle not knowing what's what.

The other side of that air brick is the hall, which to look at & feel, is actually not damp at all. It's only his toy that says it's damp.

I'm not poo-pooing what you say as i do believe something (if just channeling) needs to be done.


Our of interest - do you get in driveway installers for this or would Bob the Builder do it? I imagine any builder would be able to do the drive perfectly fine too? As on top of that we will need the wall knocking down & then the end tidying up you see in the top photo to allow the 2nd car in.

fluffymuffy

Bob the Builder does everything. The Building Regulations require 150mm below an air brick to the ground (See Diagram 5 - http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/BR_PDFs_ADC_2004.pdf) but I'd be happy with a drainage channel. Find a nice builder (a two-man-band is best) and use them for the rest of your/their life for all your building needs.

JustAnotherSaver

fluffymuffy wrote: »

Bob the Builder does everything. The Building Regulations require 150mm below an air brick to the ground (See Diagram 5 - http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/BR_PDFs_ADC_2004.pdf) but I'd be happy with a drainage channel. Find a nice builder (a two-man-band is best) and use them for the rest of your/their life for all your building needs.

I've no idea how old this driveway is to know whether it was +/- the 2000 regs you link to.

Either way, the link states 150mm, so 0mm as it currently stands is no good.

I would like to know what it was like beforehand. I wonder if they've raised the ground level up quite some way when they put the paviors down.

I'll have to take a quiet stroll up & down the street because most others have had their drives done. I'll see if i can notice their air bricks without 1) doing knock-a-door do you mind me looking at your drive & 2) being spotted as a curtain twitcher. :rotfl: