nige the hippy
August 6th, 2006, 03:24 PM
Trying to get my workshop / music room sorted at the mo. it suffers from damp to a certain degree, I knew this when I bought the house, but it didn't appear to be serious.
There's a myth that perpetuates amongst all mortgage providers, in the uk at least, in that "All old houses suffer from rising damp". This has resulted in a proliferation of companies over the last 25 or so years, providing injected damp proof courses.
this statement assumes two things,... 1) that the damp matters, and 2) that water flows uphill.
of course there's a small amount of capillary action in a brick, but these assumptions have resulted in C**P contractors in my place drilling through a perfectly good slate damp course every 6" to inject a liquid one, and completely missing the "mortar course" of spongy wood one brick above it, linking the below-ground bridge to the front door, with the wall of the basement, and making a really effective "water pipe" just behind the plaster. and also the fact that the ground outside the basement was built up to just above the level of my floor. Every job that was done in my house, usually by professionals, was botched.
Result... every job I start involves loads of extra work correcting a previous horror.
Is it anyone else's opinion that everyone's job is just-a-bit-too-difficult for them to do right?
There's a myth that perpetuates amongst all mortgage providers, in the uk at least, in that "All old houses suffer from rising damp". This has resulted in a proliferation of companies over the last 25 or so years, providing injected damp proof courses.
this statement assumes two things,... 1) that the damp matters, and 2) that water flows uphill.
of course there's a small amount of capillary action in a brick, but these assumptions have resulted in C**P contractors in my place drilling through a perfectly good slate damp course every 6" to inject a liquid one, and completely missing the "mortar course" of spongy wood one brick above it, linking the below-ground bridge to the front door, with the wall of the basement, and making a really effective "water pipe" just behind the plaster. and also the fact that the ground outside the basement was built up to just above the level of my floor. Every job that was done in my house, usually by professionals, was botched.
Result... every job I start involves loads of extra work correcting a previous horror.
Is it anyone else's opinion that everyone's job is just-a-bit-too-difficult for them to do right?