Damp in a house, good or bad?

Canucklehead

Good morning: An excellent website for info on damp ... http://www.bricksandbrass.co.uk/diyelem/extwalls/damp/damp.htm

HTH

Canucklehead

paulrn_2

Not sure if this will help, but we are currently buying a 1950's property and when we saw the surveyors report you would think it was about to fall down. However on reading it carefully most things were simple back covering, like the electrics should be checked etc. However he found damp and we had 3 companies check the place out and give us quotes to fix it, this cost us nothing and produced interesting results. The first said every wall needed work. the other 2 agreed where the problem was and roughly agreed on the price to fix it. I took the reports to the sellers agent and told them that I wanted to renegotiate the price accordingly. Thety agreed that day to drop the price by the cost of repairs and we are continuing to buy.

My advice have it checked out for free, if there is a problem then renegotiate, if youve found it, any other buyer will too.