anobium said:
Oh deary me - this is far harder than it really should be.
It really isn't if you pay attention.
Hmm.
anobium said:
I've never pretended to have more experience than any other houseowner...
Oh come now Softus you are doing yourself an injustice.I mean all the posts and links you have read. I think you have a little more knowledge on this subject than the average houseowner.
You might insist, but nonetheless I claim my right to modesty.
anobium said:
Where did I a humble layman try and blind you , a scientist, with science.?
I don't know - you tell me
Equally, where did I say that you tried to?
anobium said:
BTW what proof have you that you are more open minded than the averagely open minded scientist.?
I don't offer any proof, and I don't really feel the need to. If you've read what I've written and you decide that I'm prejudiced and/or closed-minded, then I'm content that you have exercised your right to hold an independent, albeit inexplicable, opinion.
anobium said:
I accept your point about independence but I do not work in the industry unlike Konrad Fischer who case you appear to be supporting
That's cool - I didn't intend to imply that you aren't independent, or that Konrad is.
anobium said:
So, no "rotting damp" then? Or flooding - doesn't that make a building particularly moist
Rotting damp! Please clarify
Sure - this was simply an act of teasing
anobium said:
Flooding see penetrating damp
I don't see any.
anobium said:
Your not really concentrating are you
Tra, la-la, la-la, mmm, fish fingers. Sorry - what were you saying?
anobium said:
Maybe so, but why would I accept that rising damp exists without evidence in support of it?
Open your mind
Ready.
anobium said:
Common scenario
Internal dividing wall in house , no water or central heating pipes attached to wall or in immediate vicinity.
Skirting boards attached to wall and the ends only of the joists bearing into both sides of the wall are decayed due to wet rot fungus.
What else could possibly have caused the decay
I presume you mean that you believe it was caused by rising damp through the brickwork. However, I remain open-minded, because you haven't explained how you eliminated the possibility of it being caused by rising damp between the surface of the brick layer of the wall and its covering layer.
anobium said:
You would only have been surprised if you had a pre-conception of how much you expected to find - not a very scientific approach IMHO.
I don't profess to be a scientist but it shows that the method is more accurate than any other. Of course you can have pre conceived idea of the outcome but what it shows is that the final outcome rests on the laboratory analysis
I'm bamboozled by this - does it make any kind of point? If so, please could you restate it?
anobium said:
don't know if it proves or disproves it. Why don't you explain, for everyone's benefit, why you think it equates to the condition of rising damp, through brickwork?
On this point I would refer you to the B R E Digest 245
That's it?! That's your answer?! That's your explanation of how damp rises through brickwork, after all these posts and questionably successful attempts to ridicule me?!
I am, quite frankly, surprised, and not a little disappointed in you.
anobium said:
Softus said:
anobium said:
So now we're getting somewhere. You give an example of a Victorian property. You say that various method were use to cure a rising damp problem, but you haven't said what those methods were or how you determined that the problem was one of rising damp.
You really are not concentrating are you I said that two methods had been used to try and solve the problem.
Silicone injection and electro osmosis
The problem was was identified by the process of elimination and the carbide tests as previously indicated
Mm, hmm. So, what was the wall construction and the wall covering, both inside and outside?
I've nothing to add to the question that you've failed to answer.
anobium said:
Now we are geting pedantic
Great minds think alike! Or were you using the "Royal We"?
anobium said:
You really are something else. One minute you are asking for an independant analysis and then you come out with this question
Damn I'm good
anobium said:
Why thank you - I did. I visited my mother, we had a nice lunch, and she was most appreciative. I sincerely hope that your day had a similarly pleasurable outcome.