Hi
We have recently replastered, repainted the house ready to sell. Now, over the last few days with all the rain we have noticed that some of the walls are damp at the bottom.
The walls are damp in two places..
1: front of the living room, meter wide and about 6 inches high
2: on an internal wall around chimney base in living room, im guessing that water is coming down the chimney and finding its way into the wall. In the chimney stack is a gas back boiler.
The house of 80 years old, and has a concrete floor.
These are not dripping wet, the only reson I noticed was because we painted those sections in the cheepest paint in the world (very chalky) and and damp looks pretty obvious on it.
Now im looking to sell the house (145k) how much would this cost me to fix before i sell, what might a survayor say, and what kind of cost would be resonable to deduct from the cost of the house for a protentual buyer to deal with?
cheers!
We have recently replastered, repainted the house ready to sell. Now, over the last few days with all the rain we have noticed that some of the walls are damp at the bottom.
The walls are damp in two places..
1: front of the living room, meter wide and about 6 inches high
2: on an internal wall around chimney base in living room, im guessing that water is coming down the chimney and finding its way into the wall. In the chimney stack is a gas back boiler.
The house of 80 years old, and has a concrete floor.
These are not dripping wet, the only reson I noticed was because we painted those sections in the cheepest paint in the world (very chalky) and and damp looks pretty obvious on it.
Now im looking to sell the house (145k) how much would this cost me to fix before i sell, what might a survayor say, and what kind of cost would be resonable to deduct from the cost of the house for a protentual buyer to deal with?
cheers!