Selling house - Will repairing damp course add value ?
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Painterhombre- ref earlier post - not yours by the way
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Hi,
I just want to say that by looking the pictures it seems that the house is suffering from the problem of rising damp. It s better to take measures at an early age as it badly affects the property and health. I just like to tell you that you need the suggestion of an expert as an expert can perfectly advice what measures to be taken ? After checking the condition of the house. I can suggest you one company which provides the perfect advice, the companies name is Protech Conservation Solutions. You can click on the link for perfect advice for rising damp http://www.pro-tech.ie/rising-damp-proofing.html
Thanks.
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[quote]
Hi,
I just want to say that by looking the pictures it seems that the house is suffering from the problem of rising damp. It s better to take measures at an early age as it badly affects the property and health. I just like to tell you that you need the suggestion of an expert as an expert can perfectly advice what measures to be taken ? After checking the condition of the house. I can suggest you one company which provides the perfect advice, the companies name is Protech Conservation Solutions. You can click on the link for perfect advice for rising damp http://www.pro-tech.ie/rising-damp-proofing.html
Thanks.
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painterhombre said:
if i had the balls to say i work for a dpc company?
I was offering advice and the Brain Surgery forums were all full up.
Is offered in good faith. Either take the advice from someone who knows what he is talking about, or ignore it eh?
Sounds fair. We can ignore you and pay attention to people who know what they are on about then.I was offering advice and the Brain Surgery forums were all full up.
Is offered in good faith. Either take the advice from someone who knows what he is talking about, or ignore it eh?
Mattt said:
MonkeyMatt said:
chemical dpc are not very good at all and in most circumstances not at all necessary!
Ignore the 'experts' with their timber calibrated damp meters.
I bought a house, a little old, a little damp, but no problem. I got a very reputable bloke to come round and do a chemical DPC.
All fine for 4 years until we came to sell it. A not so reputable bloke came round plugged his "fully calibrated damp meter" into the wall and said "wall's wet" Cue large argument and eventually us having to take brick sample and send them off to be analysed to prove to punters that their "experts" were a
holes and we weren't.At this point we sold up and moved next door, the other side of the semi (long (and not very interesting) story) a few years later we sold that. the party wall (the one that had all the "problems") needed a bit of a tidy anyway so I battened it out about an inch, some taper edge plasterboard and tape and jointed it.
The same expert came round to test this wall and said "that's the driest wall he's ever seen in a property of this type"
What a cock
Incorrigible said:
Mattt said:
MonkeyMatt said:
chemical dpc are not very good at all and in most circumstances not at all necessary!
Ignore the 'experts' with their timber calibrated damp meters.
I bought a house, a little old, a little damp, but no problem. I got a very reputable bloke to come round and do a chemical DPC.
All fine for 4 years until we came to sell it. A not so reputable bloke came round plugged his "fully calibrated damp meter" into the wall and said "wall's wet" Cue large argument and eventually us having to take brick sample and send them off to be analysed to prove to punters that their "experts" were a
holes and we weren't.At this point we sold up and moved next door, the other side of the semi (long (and not very interesting) story) a few years later we sold that. the party wall (the one that had all the "problems") needed a bit of a tidy anyway so I battened it out about an inch, some taper edge plasterboard and tape and jointed it.
The same expert came round to test this wall and said "that's the driest wall he's ever seen in a property of this type"
What a cock
painterhombre said:
The cheapest and most effective way to eradicate damp in your walls, especially if it rising damp 9coming up from the ground_ is to have an injected chemical DPC which are very effective and can be done with usually the minimum of fuss.
An injected damp course is useless on its own. Proper remedial replastering needs to be carried out as well.This means hacking off the salt laden gypsum plaster to a height of about 1m throughout at ground level. Rendering with sand and cement with waterproofer followed by a couple of coats of Multifinish.
Not a job that I would class as 'a minimum of fuss' by any stretch.
£3k will not go far when you consider you will have to remove skirtings, kitchen, maybe bathroom. Hack off, muck away. Chemical injection, rendering, plastering, redecoration, refit skirtings, kitchen, bathroom, decoration throughout ground floor.
It WILL scare potential buyers. Expect to be chipped £10k.
As has already been said though. Beware damp proofing companies. They want to sell you a damp course.
What you have may not be rising damp - get professional advice.
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