Acceptance of the wonderful damp

kev208 · 2006-10-17T19:03:41+00:00

We have now accepted and come to love our damp so I need as manysolutions for minimising the problem as you wonderful people can comeup with.We have a Victorian terrace with a modern(ish) concrete floordownstairs in the hall and back room, the front room has a suspendedtimber floor. we have what looks like rising damp intermitently aroundthe whole ground floor. after posting on various websites like thisone, having perplexed 'professionals' round to look at it and doing myown research I have concluded (!) that the concrete floor is pushingmoisture to the edges of the room and up the walls. we may also have afailing damp course but I dont want to get into this as we cant affordto re-inject/replaster etc (I'm not convinced it is failing either).so, we are going to decorate the whole ground floor and need to knowthe best ways of going about minimising the problem. so far I have comeup with following potential ideas:-take off skirting boards, attach wooden batten under the level of theplaster but above the concrete floor to absord moisture, put skirtingback on.-ventilate skirting baords at various points-damp proof concrete floor with sealant(?) before carpeting ??-use damp proof paint as an undercoat (does this stuff work in thesecircumstances or at all?)we are intending to paint the front room (timber floor) but the backroom and hall need papered as the walls are in bad shape. should we betaking a different approach for the intended papered and painted rooms?any comments on the above welcome as well as any other ideas...

Oct 17, 2006 20 Replies

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Stuart Noble 20 years ago

I think that's your only realistic option. Injection is less likely to fail if you do it yourself and are not economising on the fluid. Contractors often give it a quick squirt and hope for the best.

in the meantime we have

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