So does the fault lie with the consumer unit in the garage that has just been installed? If I tell the electrician he should know what to look...
I have a garage which just has a new consumer unit installed. The building, separate to the house, takes its 13amp supply from the main house....
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This was the cause of the damp in the first place. No gutter to catch rain water causing it to trickle down exterior wall and soak mud. The...
Yes I agree, VCL is under plasterboard and we will have a floor DPM, but I'm turning over woody's suggestion in my head of a poly-barrier against...
Right, I understand the former concept of vapour moving into the walls and the poly vapour membrane on the warm side underneath the plasterboard...
Thanks for that, but I've got a few more questions in response to this: As this is a single leaf construction, aside from the ventilated cavity...
I'm quite confused by this as I've never seen any resource guides I've consulted use a poly-barrier against a brick wall. By fixing in polythene...
How far up the wall? This is part of the mystery, because I cannot see any evidence to suggest that there is moisture creeping in from any break...
Waterproof, breathable membrane. Stapled to the battens and pressed against the brick wall. If the water is trickling down at the back and...
Just to clarify, the DPC IS running up the walls so it's encapsulating the battens. It runs up the walls between 150mm and 200mm and the rest can...
We didn't put the DPM down first, as we were intending to over lap it with the DPC. Does it make much of a difference? I've also found that the...
The actual full floor DPM hasn't been put down yet. This black DPM is just for the stud work. I really don't know if the DPM used for the stud...
I'm reposting to this thread because I'm at a stage where I'll be plaster boarding, but before I could I noticed some damp on what should be the...
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