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This is good stuff & it saves space
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John brash red batterns are best used .Where can you source battens that will not be rotten in 10 yrs time, for dry lining?
All the fencing threads are full of accounts of treated posts failing after a few years.
We have a conversion to do in a shed with solid walls that are always damp, the best system appears to be what you have said or similar.For a damp proof sheet google oldroyd membrane. Thick plastic with dimples to prevent capillary action drawing water up.
Special foam plugs fir fastening to wall.
Oldroyd is good if you're re-doing the floor and can put the wall membrane behind the floor visqueen to get the water away and down.We have a conversion to do in a shed with solid walls that are always damp, the best system appears to be what you have said or similar.
Unless anyone wants to say otherwise.
Seems to me it is better to use this type of system to allow any water to drain out under the floor than to seal the damp in with renders or black stuff etc.
The 4x2 wall studs can then be fixed top and bottom, not in contact with any damp or making any cold bridges by fixing to outer walls
The floor went down first. The floor visqueen goes up the room side of the oldroyd so water runs down wall and out under the floor.Thanks for the picture, looks kind of how I thought it would work.
I assume that the Oldroyd goes down to below the concrete floor slab?
Hi Nigel I live in Cornwall how will I know if I have rising damp ?why don't you treat the wall out side as long as its not rising damp you can water proof the out said of the property, easily done
Please private massage me some photos and your location so I can google maps you as I'm from Cornwall were this is a problem on most granite house. I do lots of this type of treatment locally
Kind regards
Nigel
Walls be black, high moisture reading if take readings, paint flaking off, wall paper falling off, rotted or rotten floor boards etc etc the lists go on and on.Hi Nigel I live in Cornwall how will I know if I have rising damp ?
be like this ? .....Hi Nigel I live in Cornwall how will I know if I have rising damp ?
No such thing as rising damp, its a myth made up by people selling damp proof treatments aided and abetted by the insurance industry.Hi Nigel I live in Cornwall how will I know if I have rising damp ?
I wouldn't say no such thing exactly but it's always caused by something elseNo such thing as rising damp, its a myth made up by people selling damp proof treatments aided and abetted by the insurance industry.
Some truths but what to do with all that moisture eh? Condensation then becomes the biggest issue.No such thing as rising damp, its a myth made up by people selling damp proof treatments aided and abetted by the insurance industry.
Answer tends to be a Non Cavity wall with no DPC….Recipe for disaster. Your first task should be to ask yourself why the wall is damp in the first place.
I have seen contractors putting in french drains around a house to lower the water table by the wallsHas anyone mentioned lowering the water table overall?
What made the biggest difference here to a house that literally used to flood was deepening the open ditches right back to the lowest discharge (on flat ground). Literally deepened the ditches back at least 300m to discharge point on neighbouring ground, so the bottom of the ditch is dead flat. At one point, the contractor dug out a blocked culvert -- then found another blocked culvert below that showing how far out of level the drains were! The whole farm is dryer now. Check that before you do anything.