20 year rising damp guarantee

| |> I just *threatened* to do this with a different problem, gave copies to the |> Salesman. The problem was cured within a week. | |LOL Nice one Dave

You have to look them straight in the eye and *convince* them that you are bloody minded enough to stage a one man demonstration.

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Dave Fawthrop
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I can vaguely remember seeing a prog on tv a good few years back which showed a cellar under a college or university where they had pillars of various bricks ie breeze block,red brick,stone cladding etc stood in baths of water which was topped up daily, over a number of years they had concluded that damp cannot rise up the pillars. If anyone knows where this is/was then it should make interesting info.

Pete

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Pete Cross

If rising damp is a misnomer then what is the remedy?

Sorry if I wasn't paying attention.

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andyv

Do what a friend of mine did a few years ago. Go to the company who did the work originally, tell them you are interested in their product, let their 'surveyor' do an inspection and tell you how your property is in dire need of their wonderful treatment, get the full inspection paperwork and quote for work. THEN produce your lifetime guarantee and get them to do it all again free of charge because by their own admission it needs doing!

Peter

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Peter Andrews

|> Sorry if I wasn't paying attention. |>

| |Do what a friend of mine did a few years ago. Go to the company who did the |work originally, tell them you are interested in their product, let their |'surveyor' do an inspection and tell you how your property is in dire need |of their wonderful treatment, get the full inspection paperwork and quote |for work. THEN produce your lifetime guarantee and get them to do it all |again free of charge because by their own admission it needs doing!

Now that *is* nasty :-) I'll remember that one.

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Dave Fawthrop

As an adult, your education is your own resposibility. I'm not writing for an hour for you. Sorry to disappoint.

depends what you consider obvious

quite so

completely illogical

NT

Reply to
meow2222

These things are more or less always condensation or penetrating damp. There's a whole list of causes and solutions, all of which are very simple in nature. Causes include things like leaking roofs, overflowing gutters and hoppers, ground level above floor level and so on.

NT

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meow2222

This is now only of academic interest but I previously had a 200 year old stone farmhouse with rubble filled walls. There were some obvious causes like rain coming down the chimney, but I could never fathom out how the internal brick dividing walls were damp. We installed central heating but one of the bad spots was right next to a radiator

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andyv

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