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Or that the typical hole size in the brick is less than 0.2mm? (I would have expected the lift height to be roughly inversely proportional to the hole size for "small but not atomic" sizes.)
Hardly a logic based line of reasoning, but hey.
NT
Dear meow2, Particulars (of misinformation) please? Chris G
Don't worry he's a period property 'loony' ;)
Interesting site here BTW:
cheers, Pete.
Thank you Pete for your kind explanation. I was a bit suprised at the unfounded nature of the allegation and look forward to a reasoned response with facts and/or supportive evidence to substantiate what meow2 has said about my post. Absent that, readers will be able to make their own judgements. As a scientist I am always willing to listen to a reasoned argument and change my mind. Chris G
Not misinformation, per se, as you could actually do this and get the right result for the building. Not the best in information either though is it?
If you did this there is a very strong likelihood you would get 3 quotes for work. You are essentially recommending that if you think you may have rising damp get an opinion from 3 commissioned sellers of them to check. Now one may be honest, but thats a risk as big as suggesting you get 3 doubleglazing salesmen to give you an honest appraisal of your windows.
How about suggesting that the person pay for a destructive test to confirm the wall is actually damp, rather than go through the whole:
resistance meter SUGGESTS it's damp, put a cDPC in wall is still showing signs of damp attempt to claim on lovely GPT backed guarentee CSRT qualified surveyor turns up again and this time does a destructive test on the wall destructive test DETERMINES its damp (...or not)
process?
Surely that has to be better than relying on commissioned salesmen and risking uneccessary works?
Disclaimer: I undertake the works described, am not currently a PCA member because the company I work for is not. The PCA has independent non-commissioned surveyors listed on their website. There are excellent surveyors working for companies that make them sell on commission, promoting free surveys perpetuates the problems described in this thread, worse still: promoting companies that have a commissioned sales business model perpetuates the poor public perception of the industry as a whole.
My opinion, not necessarily that of the company I work for.
M Green
last time I wrote about this it took a couple of hours, so not really. Theres a damp faq on
NT
There are some big wooden things growing in my garden which suggest that capillary action can be used to raise water a lot higher than 14 inches ...
Ian
Water does not rise in trees solely by capillary action, I'm afraid.
:-)
Maybe its the same thing n walls then ;-)
This really is the issue here. IME , you will be told that you have rising damp and a chemical injection plus "specialist" re-plastering is needed at xyz cost, plus an option to insure against further damp for 20 years. How good the guarantee would be remains to be tested if later tests reveal that there was no rising damp and the damp problem was attributable to other causes of damp remains to be seen.
This is what I was trying to suggest to the OP when I mentioned that a proper *independent* damp survey be done. I wish I had worded my reply more strongly and mentioned a destructive test now. To be fair though, it is unlikely that a vendor would allow such a test if they have been living with a damp problem, and even tried to disguise it for the sale.
Yep.
Fair enough and I agree with that totally.
FWIW, you have made some good points here but so has Chris who also, obviously, has a wealth of experience in this field.
:-)
Steve
These might be of use if there is reason to believe there is a damp problem, but doing one simply because a surveyor wants to offload responsibility and a salesman says they want to do some work isnt appropriate imho. Unless theres a realistic reason to believe otherwise, the problem normally isnt damp, its the damp game.
NT
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