Hey guys,
Looking at moving to our next project house and found one that’s a possibility, but it’s got a terrible damp problem.
Not been inside the house yet, but here’s some photos from the estate agents. It’s a 1905 brick farmhouse, so I assume solid walls.
The worst of the damp is around chimney breast (both upstairs and down):
But also on an external wall with no chimney there’s damp all around the doors and around the sockets:
Only got one decent shot of the outside but, as you might guess, the damp corresponds to the discoloured bricks:
We’d never be able to afford this place if it wasn’t for the damp issues, but I’m just wondering what routes to resolving the damp might be?
Someone’s done the interior up recently, and the pointing looks pretty good in my opinion…so I think any ‘cheap’ fixes like a dpc would have been done.
Im wondering if things like external insulation and then rendering, and/or more invasive installation of a real dpc (removing sections of wall)….any suggestions like that would be welcomed?
I’m not afraid of some hard graft or getting the pros in where needed
Thanks
Andy
Looking at moving to our next project house and found one that’s a possibility, but it’s got a terrible damp problem.
Not been inside the house yet, but here’s some photos from the estate agents. It’s a 1905 brick farmhouse, so I assume solid walls.
The worst of the damp is around chimney breast (both upstairs and down):
But also on an external wall with no chimney there’s damp all around the doors and around the sockets:
Only got one decent shot of the outside but, as you might guess, the damp corresponds to the discoloured bricks:
We’d never be able to afford this place if it wasn’t for the damp issues, but I’m just wondering what routes to resolving the damp might be?
Someone’s done the interior up recently, and the pointing looks pretty good in my opinion…so I think any ‘cheap’ fixes like a dpc would have been done.
Im wondering if things like external insulation and then rendering, and/or more invasive installation of a real dpc (removing sections of wall)….any suggestions like that would be welcomed?
I’m not afraid of some hard graft or getting the pros in where needed
Thanks
Andy