Recent content by Paulintheprocess

You probably won’t fully fix it until you relay or re-level the concrete, but there are a couple of things that can make it less of a pain for now. A cheap temporary fix might be laying down an outdoor rubber mat or a strip of gravel right in the low spot so the water has somewhere to sit that...

I’ve seen people try this method but it’s usually pretty hard to get right. Cutting out bricks one by one and slipping in a physical DPC can work, but it needs to be done very slowly and supported properly or you risk movement in the wall. The bigger issue is that rising damp is often caused by...

Sugar soap definitely needs rinsing off, it leaves a residue that can stop new paint bonding properly, and what you’re describing looks a lot like poor adhesion rather than a bad roller or bad batch of paint. If the wall wasn’t rinsed and you’ve already painted most of it, the usual fix is to...