independent damp surveyor birmingham?

jehangir

Hi , can anyone help me .

I have been advised to have an independant report done on my mothers house which is suffering from what looks like rising damp on the iternal walls .

I might be able receive free qoutes from a damp specialist but they may charge for work which does not need doing .

I have been searching online but most are either contractors or work for an damp company so are not really independant .



Any help would be much appreciated
J

Doozergirl

Could you post some more pictures of both sides of the affected walls and with links that work, please?

I don't know a true independent who deals only with damp and doesn't treat it in Birmingham, I have to say, but those of us who understand buildings should have a good idea from photographs of what could be causing it.

The last pictures of an airbrick and a doorstep don't help without pictures of the questioned damp.

jehangir

Thanks for the reply , the other side of the walls seem dry .

Directly behind one wall is a fridge and the other where the combi boiler is kept.

Here are some pictures.

http://s1370.photobucket.com/user/rustom121/media/wall11_zpsafcbf728.jpg.html

http://s1370.photobucket.com/user/rustom121/media/damp1_zps9caca797.jpg.html

http://s1370.photobucket.com/user/rustom121/media/damp2_zpsfd75806f.jpg.html

http://s1370.photobucket.com/user/rustom121/media/wall22_zpsd9face3e.jpg.html

Doozergirl

So the kitchen is on the other side?

That looks like the result of a leak to me from a pipe? It looks like fresh water being sucked up the wall.

I'm not sure of the relevance of the airbricks, but are the subfloors wooden in this house?

What was the purpose of the replastering and papering? To cover an existing problem, or is this new?

cyclonebri1

There is no such thing as rising damp. Infact, it simply doesn't exist.

Feel free to discuss.

motomoto_2

have pm'd you !

Gordon_Hose

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

There is no such thing as rising damp. Infact, it simply doesn't exist.

Feel free to discuss.

I had an independent damp surveyor and two builders tell me rising damp does exist, but it is more uncommon than people think.

SG27

That looks like it's coming from somewhere within in the house. If I was damp coming from the ground I would expect that skirting board and wood flooring to be warped and damaged.

jehangir

Just a update to say I called out a local damp specialist as i thought i had nothing to loose as it would be a free qoute ,

He said as the patches appears on two independant walls he doubts that it is a leaking pipe issue . Advised that the best course of action would be to install a " Eco Drain channel" on the driveway.

He suspects that as the driveway runs towards the house on a slope wheni it rains it runs straight into the walls and into the air bricks .

Not too sure if this is the case as the wall facing the drive shows no sign of damp .

Also said that the wet white dash on the wall was too low and should have a " lip " at the base to take away the water from from the walls.

He said to use a small fan heater to dry the walls the best i can , and the next time it rains to check to see if the walls are damp as this would indicate that the driveway is the issue.

Doozergirl

You might not need to install an Aco drain then, you could just deepen the french drain that you have. Dig out the gravel that is there, take it all down a good 20-30 cms and then fill it, not all the way back to the top with gravel.

If you put in an Aco drain, you'd still need the level to drop. They're not expensive, to be fair, so you could do it - you still need the water to go somewhere else - soakaway?

jehangir

Doozergirl wrote: »

So the kitchen is on the other side?

That looks like the result of a leak to me from a pipe? It looks like fresh water being sucked up the wall.

I'm not sure of the relevance of the airbricks, but are the subfloors wooden in this house?

What was the purpose of the replastering and papering? To cover an existing problem, or is this new?

There is no water pipes on the back of the wall ( only an old gas pipe ) but behind the walls is fridge .

The room was decorated around 5 months ago , the damp section of the wall was taken back to brick and replastered (the original plaster crumbled away.)