Recent content by PhillipC

Had a Barrett house once. Ex showhome. They put us into a hotel 5 months after we moved in to allow them to put the correct size joists under the upstairs floors. The house across the road had the cavity in the wall fill with toilet waste because the soil pipe stopped under the floor & didn't...

Thank you for your replies. :D The walls at present do not feel damp but I am assuming they are as the ground level is 2metres higher on the outside. What will happen if I hang a dpc sheet over the wall? If I pierce the dpc with fixings will the damp permeate through? I like what I read on...

I have a basement which I intend turning into a garden room but would like to dry line it to make the breezeblock prettier. The dpc is at the top. How does one secure duplex plasterboard without nailing it through to battens? How does one hang cupboards without piercing the membrane :?: