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Bought a house, discovered a damp wall under wallpaper

Ratlee · 2019-09-12 21:13:17

Hi, First time buyer here. Me and my partner bought a property (completed a week ago). Now we're moving in and obviously start to discover that it's not all rainbows and unicorns. We had Building Survey done, which claimed that damp readings were carried out and nothing came out. Quotes: 'Damp meter readings have been…

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Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite

26 September 2019 at 5:28AM

Samuel745 wrote: »

I'm so sorry this happened to you. Atleast other people can learn from this too.

Not really. The OP didn't come back with answers to the questions or more photos after Doozer asked questions 2 weeks ago.

The one thing people might learn is to set the context of their problem correctly. This one was better than average though, because at least here were photos of a kind. Photos, maps and diagrams are still relatively rare here. You'd think we were still in 1992!

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