Hi All
Recently noticed that that the front room floor feels a little springy in the right hand corner of the bay, it's a 30s semi. Lifted a couple of boards and was quite shocked to see that two main joists are rotten from damp back from the wall to a couple of feet along their length and a couple of smaller joists that go between the chimney breast and the bay have also suffered but not to as bad an extent.
i've figured out where the slate DPC is, bit tricky as its been pointed over but the soil level outside was maybe half to one brick below the DPC
Ive now removed soil to about three courses below the DPC but I can see a few tiny droplets on the inside bricks just below the DPC, not sure if this hitting the joists or if the DPC is doing its job and preventing the damp. Maybe this is normal and clearing the soil will fix the issue?
If not whats the best course of action, do chemical damp courses actually work?
Recently noticed that that the front room floor feels a little springy in the right hand corner of the bay, it's a 30s semi. Lifted a couple of boards and was quite shocked to see that two main joists are rotten from damp back from the wall to a couple of feet along their length and a couple of smaller joists that go between the chimney breast and the bay have also suffered but not to as bad an extent.
i've figured out where the slate DPC is, bit tricky as its been pointed over but the soil level outside was maybe half to one brick below the DPC
Ive now removed soil to about three courses below the DPC but I can see a few tiny droplets on the inside bricks just below the DPC, not sure if this hitting the joists or if the DPC is doing its job and preventing the damp. Maybe this is normal and clearing the soil will fix the issue?
If not whats the best course of action, do chemical damp courses actually work?