What is Reasonable Negotiating Price for Rising and Penetrative Damp?

martindow

Mercurial said:

Eddddy I was advised by the EA freeholders pay for the penetrative damp as it is assumed it's coming from the roof, chimney, etc.

Rising damp the owner of basement flat would pay.

If the other freehold refuses to pay I would pull out of the sale.

You need to see the lease.  The EA could be right/ making something up to get a sale/ missing out vital information.  Who knows?  You can't rely on this!

Mercurial

Thanks everyone.   I'm going to get an independent damp surveyor to check the property to get an unbiased opinion.  If it's going to be expensive to rectify I'll withdraw my offer. 

Splatfoot

Yeah I don't think you can really get away from damp in basement areas. I've got a basement and two of the walls are underground.  It's just extra rooms though, I would not want to live in them because apart from tanking them, which will fail eventually, there's not much you can do to actually solve it.  We choose to create as much airflow as possible and strip all the old plaster board off and then just leave the walls (stone) to breathe.  We get a bit of ingress when it rains hard but we don't use it as accommodation so it doesn't bother me., it's not affecting much, theres a few old paint cans down that end, not my worldly belongings and clothes etc. I would think twice about going ahead with the flat to be honest.