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There is no reason why your porch should have any damp. In the home damp comes from cooking, washing, breathing, none of these will happen in your porch. At the worst, when you open the door into your home, the water vapour from the home will spill into the porch, where it will simply pass...

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ There seems to be a bit of mis information here. The Government scheme, where one is encouraged to insulate with open cell fibre glass is a bit misleading, as they suggest that you should lay fibreglass both between the joists and across the joists. I had an...

peteuk I do agree with your comment - rising damp does exist. When I bought this bungalow not only did I have rising damp, I had water rising up through the tiles on the utility room floor and flowing out under our back door. Wonderful people builders.

The key thing here is preservation of the existing structure. The wall is in danger of deterioration due to damp, the people living there are in danger from potentially high concentrations of mould caused by damp. Mould can cause headaches, pneumonia, allergies and lots of other illness's...

It is perfectly possible that all your damp problems are down to that leaking pipe and that over the next months or couple of years the damp will go - never the less read on. You can understand the builders remark about driving rain, entering the building, making the cavity wall insulation...

three inches and two inches = 5 inches = 125mm Celotex and Kingspan are trade names for polystyrene they are all closed cell insulation.

For the last two thousand years people have built homes/houses from the materials at hand. Until recently homes/houses were not designed as waterproof and the natural way of things was to produce homes/buildings that shed water got wet and used the convection and movement of air to dry them...

You may well find this helpful Using the law to secure access It is possible that there is already a right of entry to neighbouring property, specifically for the purposes of inspection or repair under the property's title documents or lease. Specifically, title deeds may well contain a...

OK, damp is a strange thing, when the place was built damp wasn't a problem and as you say it merely made its way through the wall and evaporated. Painting it with lime will continue this process. However, there will be a great deal of water vapour to cope with during the winter probably a...

Pull the ceiling down and fit at least three inch thick polystyrene in between the joists as a tight friction fit, taking care to leave no holes. Then fit another layer of two inch thick polystyrene under the joists and finish with plaster board. As its only a small room plaster the ceiling...

The height and the position of the damp will be some indication of the cause. For damp that is under four feet from the ground out side, then you have two possibilities, rising damp due a fault in the damp proof course or bridging of the damp proof course by something outside like piles of...

Cavity wall insulation is very often the cause of damp problems and is rarely the solution to cold walls and rooms as promoted. Cavity wall insulation was someones idea, to add insulation to existing properties and to make a lot of money in so doing. Cavity wall insulation should only be...

As Deluks says sprayed foam is very expensive but it does do the best job. However, polystyrene sheets are almost as good and a lot cheaper. Completly filling the space between the frame will give you a good result. Having said that, the wood frame will then be the weak point, this should be...

I presume that the cow shed is level with the ground at the front/side and is partly buried in the ground at the back? I would suggest that you speak to the person who owns the ground at the back and ask them if you can dig out a French drain. A French drain is simply a deep trench that (in...

Keith, I can understand your concern that water laying under the home has some potential for damage. There is a lot of misunderstanding about this, so I am providing some background to illustrate and cover your doubts and the answer further down - ignore the water. However, the situation is...

Woody, this system and others like it was designed for social housing where the tenants could not be expected to look after themselves and where other people, the tax payers were expected to pick up the bill. Used in social housing where exhaust provision is built in -and the system is...

Kevin, please explain the logic of pumping cold air into the upstairs of a home to cure condensation? If you want to dilute the warm wet air in your home you traditionally just open a window (this costs a lot less than £400) and let some of the warm wet air out and let some of the cold dry...

In your blog of the 1st, you say that water is running into your home under the front and back doors. Is it getting under the suspended wood floor? The builder wants to make a French drain? Both across the back and front of the property to contain the excess water? OK so assume the...

The best permanent way to deal with this is, buy a cream dpc on e-bay and insert your own dpc at ground level, and take it down below the floor, making sure to drill down through the verticle lines of mortar at an angle of 45 - 50 degrees. Damp rises through the air bubbles that were entrained...

Silicone does not waterproof! Silicone paint is high tech, it sheds rain and allows water vapour out, this ensures that walls can dry outwards.