Recent content by Richard Aldridge

Thank you for this. I think I probably am on the wrong sub forum as my worry is for the deterioration of the bricks being continually saturated with water. I know that old porous bricks do eventually break up The building has an injected chemical damp course which was done many years ago by the...

Thank you I am sure there must be a reason why they lime washed cellars years ago. I read somewhere that cellars helped to keep the damp from rising to the ground floor before dpc had been invented It seems logical that moisture from damp bricks sealed on the inside can only travel up. Have been...

We have a Victorian property with a large extremely damp cellar.About 20 years ago the walls were painted with a normal emulsion paint which has lasted extremely well bearing in mind the damp air in the cellar. I recently had reason to drill a hole in one of the walls which alerted me to the...