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Can a survey pick up damp in the summer?
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I’ve found damp around the chimney and the response from the survey was “wasn’t there when I looked mate, could be various things”.0
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I would assume it’s getting in via the crack outside, the dry proofing has now failed? I will wait for the wall to dry and patch up the big internal gap between door frame and plaster?0
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Or the slabs forming the patio are up against the house and/or breaching the DPC.
The answer is an obvious yes.
Rain water is pooling on the slabs and getting under the bottom of the door frame. If the DPC is the line of mortar level with the stone chips to the left of the slabs, you've got quite a bit of work to fix the source of the problem.Any language construct that forces such insanity in this case should be abandoned without regrets. –
Erik Aronesty, 2014
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Years ago I lived next to someone, he had a cellar with a damp patch. Eventually wanted to sell. He put a long big 6inch wide hose with extractor fan next to it & ran it 24x7, sucking out into outdoors, except when anyone visited. Sold the place easily.Bexgrossman wrote: »I appear to have damp walls. I was wondering if the survey wasn’t able to pick it up due to the survey being done end of august/start of September?
Cheers
These days someone would probably use a de-humidifier.
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Would it not just be filling the hole where the slabs are and making them slip downwards?0
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Surveyor said:
House is I solid walls are prone to dampness, condensation, etc. A cavity wall has an air gap between the outside brick and the inside brick (i.e. a cavity wall is effectively two separate skins of brick with an air gap between). This means the outside brick gets wet when it rains, but the inside skin of brick work stays dry. Solid walls (as found at this house) have no air gap. This means (as my report says) that when the outside of the wall gets wet, some of that moisture will inevitable move through the wall, causing internal dampness. This is clearly explained in my report.
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What's on the other side of the wall? Do you have a neighbour or are you detached on that side?
I can see damp near the plug sockets bu can't see what's on the other side of that wall.Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Could the decorative slate on the left be holding water?Official MR B fan club,dont go............................0
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