electro osmotic damp proofing - does it work?

[harry]

So it didn't work for you either? All that happens is themetal rots away.

[alan_m]

Another homeownerhub user replying to a post made 12 years ago

[Fogster74]

This is the best response I've ever read on this - thank you!!!

[Phister]

Coldshield double glazed windows and doors were similar in disappearing......

[newshound]

This quote was essentially my experience from 32 years ago

"Sorting out of a damp course was a mortgage pre-requisite and this was the least expensive and least disruptive option accepted by the building society. You have to remember that in those days building society and bank managers were God and largely called the shots."

In my case it was also associated with stripping off large amounts of plaster, re-rendering with sand/cement and then skimming with plaster.

It failed dramatically on one wall, and to a lesser extent on another.

There was also another fascinating effect. One damp wall had 13A sockets in a metal double box (which of course was earthed), over 10 years or so at least half of the metal simply disappeared, I assume through electrolytic dissolution under the current sourced from the titanium wire. I also had a radiator hung on another damp (stone) wall, the screws (earthed via the radiator and hangers) also rusted away, I replaced them with 200mm lengths of 6mm stainless steel studding set into plaster or some sort of filler. When I relocated the radiator 20 years later, the inner half of one stud had "thinned" to about 2mm diameter.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

I have cold shield windows, they have mostly remained un condensationed since the mid 70s, the only issue is one is slightly cracked in one corner and the difficulty in fitting window locks. Brian

[Eric]

A bit late to the party but I have. Not only heard about but experienced. On purchasing our 18th century farmhouse we were advised it had been fitted with an electro osmotic damp proofing system, shown the power supply unit and handed the paperwork, including a 30 year warranty from Robinson's Preservation Ltd of Salford. Some 10 years later whilst demolishing an old porch to make way for a new one I discovered part of the wire by severing it with a mighty blow of my spade! We rang Robinson's who came out without delay and effected a repair. No charge was made. So much for your rather smug sounding nasty Americanism "go figure". I'd imagine the lack of respondents had something to do with the sparsity of folk reading these comments - and I can see why. All the best.