Water in cellar

louise7654

I have just had a surveyor completed and it has come back with a number of potential problems including water in the cellar (an inch) and damp on the walls. The survey recommends that I should get these problems sorted before I purchase the property. After speaking to the surveyor he recommended that I should get an independent damp proof specialists to look at the property. I have the property inspected by a specialist and this
suggests that there are no problems and that the water in the cellar is fine and will not cause any damage and the damp can just be plastered over.

Does anyone have experience in this? I am very concerned that water in the cellar will cause damage to the property long term an/or there is a leakage somehere which will be costly to fix.

Very confused and not sure what to do........ any advise would be grealty appreciated

amcluesent

>and the damp can just be plastered over.<

Err, I don't think so! Which walls are damp? If these are ground floor, then perhaps the damp-proof course is inadequate and you are getting water drawn up from the wet cellar? Or maybe the DPC has been bridged by building work or just earth piled against an exterior wall?

louise7654

aThe house is actually spit into flats and I am buying a the top floor, the damp on the walls will probably be coming from the roof or chimney

DPC ? ? what does this mean?

cheers

MissMotivation

louise7654 wrote: »

aThe house is actually spit into flats and I am buying a the top floor, the damp on the walls will probably be coming from the roof or chimney

DPC ? ? what does this mean?

cheers

DPC = Damp Proof Course

If the damp is coming from roof or a chimney then that has to be fixed BEFORE replastering the walls or the damp will penetrate through new plaster!

wecanhelpu

Perhaps you should get one of these

http://www.johnson-pump.com/JPMarine/products/bilge/index.html

louise7654

I will own the property (cellar) as it will be part of the freehold.

I haven't actually been down the cellar but I have been told there is is a of pump in there.

The vendors also told me that 3 months ago a pipe burst in the driveway and this was meneded by the water company, the cellar was then all dried out afterwards, my concern is that why is there still water in the cellar and as you say how and why......