Damp on internal wall, is it expensive to repair?

lizwhatley

Hi,
I have seen a bungalow I liked but there are damp on the internal wall so would it be expensive to repair?

anselld

Depends on the cause.   What is going on on the outside of that wall?

xylophone

Has the DPC been bridged?

notrouble

Is that an upstairs bedroom or the ground floor?

Repair depends why it is damp. Just painting over it with a 'damp proof' paint will hide it.... for a while. But removing the origin of the moisture depends where it's coming from.

As anselld asks above - what is on the other side of the wall? The wall with the radiator has damp and that is an external wall. Are you sure the other wall is internal?

lizwhatley

The other side is the outside wall..it’s a bungalow and one of the bedroom..I haven’t looked at the property yet but is it worth going as live about 30 miles away

BrownTrout

Damp is one of those problems that scares of nieve people yet it's not a big problem and can be sorted easily enough 

Mickygg

When you go and see it take a look outside where the damp is coming in. Stand back and look at the gutters do they look blocked? Blocked gutters is a common issue causing damp I had the same. Took me ages to work out why but when it rained fairly hard the rainwater rushed out over the gutter to the ground below and there was lots of debris below only just below the dpc so water was soaking though. I dug down several inches below the dpc and unblocked gutter and all sorted. 

AdrianC

lizwhatley said:

The other side is the outside wall..

So that isn't an internal wall. It's the inside of an external wall...

You need to look at the other side. It's probably just high ground levels. But is it a single-leaf wall?

Davesnave

It looks as if the most likely cause will be bridging of the DPC and/or rain splash as above. They aren't major things to rectify, but the neglect indicates likely maintenance issues and a lack of updating in what is obviously an older property. You could expect possible renewal of central heating, a rewire and so on, besides whatever improvements you'd want in the kitchen & bathroom.

As to it being only 30 miles away, that's lucky; most of the many houses we saw were over 100 miles distant!