Dampness in Old houses.
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Just a link to a site I quite like.
Humbled me in several areas after I thought through what was said and what the reasoning was behind it.
Hope it helps.
http://www.heritage-house.org/managing-damp-in-old...
Humbled me in several areas after I thought through what was said and what the reasoning was behind it.
Hope it helps.
http://www.heritage-house.org/managing-damp-in-old...
C Lee Farquar said:
For balance a website from another consultant RTS
Some interesting points on rising damp http://buildingpreservation.com/images/stories/pdf...
I've been on a couple of training courses with him.
He, quite reasonably IMO, points out that a newly built lime wall will not act the same way as a carbonated 80 year old wall.
Ground salts are interesting (If you're interested in old buildings!)
Read it but got a bit lost a after a few pages with his bashing of the lad Jeff. What does he suggest as his cures? Some interesting points on rising damp http://buildingpreservation.com/images/stories/pdf...
I've been on a couple of training courses with him.
He, quite reasonably IMO, points out that a newly built lime wall will not act the same way as a carbonated 80 year old wall.
Ground salts are interesting (If you're interested in old buildings!)
Spent the day taking external concrete render off a 200 year old brick work today. We also dug out the usual offending soil level to below the internal floor level.
We patched an internal piece of brick work with lime last week to support it in preparation of todays activities.
It had stayed visibly damp since application but within an hour of removing the external stuff, the water level had dropped at least an inch!
Can't believe Im excited to see how far its dropped tomorrow.
We patched an internal piece of brick work with lime last week to support it in preparation of todays activities.
It had stayed visibly damp since application but within an hour of removing the external stuff, the water level had dropped at least an inch!
Can't believe Im excited to see how far its dropped tomorrow.
sidekickdmr said:
Our 1700's solid slate walled cottage had been rendered both internally and externally with cement based products
I spent all of last week with a jackhammer removing the cement plaster and this week i have the plasteres in re-doing it all in Lime
Hope it works and is woth it
If I see an improvement i will be doing the same on the outside asap
Check out Anglia Lime Company, if you're still looking for stuff to apply. Im using their Thermalime product for a lot of my walls.I spent all of last week with a jackhammer removing the cement plaster and this week i have the plasteres in re-doing it all in Lime
Hope it works and is woth it
If I see an improvement i will be doing the same on the outside asap
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