Hi all i'm in need of some advice. I have recently had a extension built and am a little worried about the dpc.
15 years ago we had a living room extension, we have now had the kitchen and the side of the house extended, basically wrapping the ground floor of the house.
The builder 15 years ago laid down the dpc for the living room extension 1 brick higher the origional houses flooring. Theres no step in the old living room flooring and the new concrete flooring as the builder had laid the concrete at a small fall to match up with old flooring.
Without realising that the old extention dpc was laid a brick higher the builders had matched up the dpc with the new build. its olny when they came to putting down the flooring they noticed the problem, they laid the internal flooring to match the origional houses flooring. Now that the new build flooring is laid corectly matching the existing houses floor level, this resuts in the dpc level being higher than the internal floor level by one brick.
Could this be a problem for damp? and is this a major problem?
Thanks in advance
15 years ago we had a living room extension, we have now had the kitchen and the side of the house extended, basically wrapping the ground floor of the house.
The builder 15 years ago laid down the dpc for the living room extension 1 brick higher the origional houses flooring. Theres no step in the old living room flooring and the new concrete flooring as the builder had laid the concrete at a small fall to match up with old flooring.
Without realising that the old extention dpc was laid a brick higher the builders had matched up the dpc with the new build. its olny when they came to putting down the flooring they noticed the problem, they laid the internal flooring to match the origional houses flooring. Now that the new build flooring is laid corectly matching the existing houses floor level, this resuts in the dpc level being higher than the internal floor level by one brick.
Could this be a problem for damp? and is this a major problem?
Thanks in advance