Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

bugslet

GDB2222 wrote: »

I got my biopsy results this morning.
In the end, she muttered under her breath that all of the biopsy samples were clear.

Great news:T, that must be a big relief.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Didn't think you thought like that. That's what I was going to do.

Start three threads or break the habit and find your way to a polling station?

michaels

DoozerGal are you around? We have a smell of damp in one downstairs room, and now I think about it we did have it once before during a particularly wet smell but it eventually went away. I suspect we need to get it sorted but who can I get to diagnose it who will give an honest opinion not a 'you need to spend 10k with me' opinion?

chris_m

You need a damp surveyor who DOESN'T work for a damp-proofing company.

Note - I don't mean one on whom you turned the garden hose as soon as he arrived, that would be a wet surveyor

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Start three threads or break the habit and find your way to a polling station?

I did think I'd written it poorly, but CBA to try to work out how to write it more clearly as that'd end up as a big/long explanation post.



I meant I intended to vote the way michaels is.

I'd not start three threads, too much ongoing commitment to keep across them

Not to mention irritw4ts that post nonsense that you're then compelled to respond to..... knowing that'll only encourage them.

I'm going out ... to vote .... for probably only the second time in my life.... to vote for "the thing I am choosing, even though I don't really have a grip on any actual facts as nobody ever actually wrote it down in simple lists to choose from".

I know why I'm voting the way I am - but I also know that I don't know what's on the lists of "why or not" to be chosen from really

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

DoozerGal are you around? We have a smell of damp in one downstairs room, and now I think about it we did have it once before during a particularly wet smell but it eventually went away. I suspect we need to get it sorted but who can I get to diagnose it who will give an honest opinion not a 'you need to spend 10k with me' opinion?

Do you have suspended floors downstairs? Plenty of airbricks? Would you know what your damp proof course looks like in that part of the house?

If it isn't all the time, then I'd say either your water table has risen in this particular wet and you have some sitting water under the floors, or you have heavy rainfall managing to breach the DPC more than it might. It could be a lack of subfloor ventilation just making things musty (still needs to be rectified though!).

I don't believe in damp proofing treatments so I wouldn't spend thousands with anyone. There will be an obvious problem with an obvious solution.

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

DoozerGal are you around? We have a smell of damp in one downstairs room, and now I think about it we did have it once before during a particularly wet smell but it eventually went away. I suspect we need to get it sorted but who can I get to diagnose it who will give an honest opinion not a 'you need to spend 10k with me' opinion?

Michaels, go to the RICS website (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors).

http://www.ricsfirms.com

Enter your town and what type of surveyor you need......there is a Damp option..... and they will give you your nearest firm of surveyors. They will be totally independent.

Generali

Given how actor Anton Yelchin (pictured in the tweet) died the purveyors of man cream could probably have thought of a better hashtag:

https://twitter.com/MurdockLondon/status/744907838607220736

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I know why I'm voting the way I am - but I also know that I don't know what's on the lists of "why or not" to be chosen from really

Isn't that a bit like buying a house without looking at it first?

I hope that, if I'm ever up before the beak, :eek:, that you're not on my jury!:rotfl:

Pyxis

Doozergirl wrote: »

Do you have suspended floors downstairs? Plenty of airbricks? Would you know what your damp proof course looks like in that part of the house?

If it isn't all the time, then I'd say either your water table has risen in this particular wet and you have some sitting water under the floors, or you have heavy rainfall managing to breach the DPC more than it might. It could be a lack of subfloor ventilation just making things musty (still needs to be rectified though!).

I don't believe in damp proofing treatments so I wouldn't spend thousands with anyone. There will be an obvious problem with an obvious solution.

I agree.
It could even be something like a rainwater drain that is partially blocked, so that when there is very heavy rainfall it can't cope with it.