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Oh, oh, what strange and poor kind of argumentation. :shock: I would prefer to believe in little green mars inhabitants than in building regs in such topic. Because I know how and from whom they are made. Please Joe, dont let you tyrannize from regs, use only your (hopefully) sound human brain -...

Pardon, I won't disappoint you, maybe my post was too easy to misunderstand. With 'laundry' I mean a room where warm air with a lot of damp will reach colder walls and must condensate - as it mostly is in a laundry room. Perhaps bad joke regarding your hall, I do commit. So I will give some...

'Mr Fischer could be persuaded to join' - no, i must not be persuaded, I would like to go into an open debate about this topic. And I'm just in it in german discussions, so I'm aware of nothing. Ok, may be I'm not serious enough to be a well estimated guy, and not enough balanced and...

Hello Joe-90. Naturally I've seen damp seeming rising up a wall. But the question which you obviusly will not be interested in is wether a capillary transport from stones to the mortar joint and furtherwards will have caused it? This capillary transports you'll never have seen, or are...

I would recommend to forget this ideas. All inner insulations I've seen got damp after a while, mold attack follows. They will suck condensate and never dry it out again. If you will cover it with a sheet of polythene there the condensation will first happen, after ageing of this awful material...

Sorry for writing nearly twice the same, but I think its worth it here also: Only a good shaped pure hydratic lime plaster will work well for repair (and new building) of masonry. There are many technical reasons, here are some of them: 1st The thermal expanding of lime mortar and stone...

Only a good shaped pure hydratic lime plaster will work well to use whilst pointing up an old sandstone porch. There are many technical reasons, here are some of them: 1st The thermal expanding of lime mortar and stone are very even (0,5-0,8 mm/m/100K), cement mortar will expand much more (~...

Hi empip, do you mean this Transport across brick/mortar interfaces ? It proves, that there is no capillar transport between fine pores (brick) and big pores (good 'historic' lime mortar). I suppose, they've made a cementous mortar, what is worse for masonry at all. The fine pores in this...

In a certain way I will say that most experts stop thinking if it hurts the purse. There are very few like Jesus when it comes to this point. I will not make further comments to a such naturally topic. Belonging mortar questions: Only a good shaped pure hydratic lime plaster will work well...

Hi Johnboy54, U nrly klld me by :lol:. Nvr fnd sutsh a gd cmmnt in www nd smwhr snc cntrs :wink: To the topic: It must be too much humidity and too less heating what causes the problems. Nearly all you need to know about reasons and to get rid with it you can find here: Mould attack...

To Oilman: I gave some special texts in books: 'Fenster im Baudenkmal' and 'Das Baudenkmal - Nutzung und Unterhalt', you can find details here Literatur. But most germans will have my page on CD-Rom, where I give my actual version of the complete homepage on and some mpg/wmv with me in...

In which funny world of good guys are you living? Surveyors world-wide like the rising damp and measuring of dampness because this is the best business with poor house owners which you can imagine. Huge billions of money worth - so why bother with opposite point of views. And so lot of not much...

But its good that we have very good beer in Franken, you should try! So I can gulp thus bratwursts down without coughing. :wink:

Dear Bylough (is this your name?), thanks for your friendly comments which I appreciate very much because often such 'errors' in the common sense make some people angry. Since many years I try to 'enlighten' building branche in Germany, there is some strong wind blewing against me as result...

I suppose there are some salt deposits in your wall which will adsorb more damp than the other parts and store it. By cristallisation in dry periods they will damage your walls surface as you have mentioned. What you have heard about waterproof seals is quite ok. That the wall will not breath...

I would like to get technical resistance and a sceptic debate to learn something more. And I think that I am humourous enough to get rid with some good jokes too. :lol:

The problem is the temperature of the surfaces of heating system (convector/radiator). From about 45 °C above the heated air can tear off from the heated surface and will stream around the room. It will give the warmth indirectly to the rooms envelopes and so they are cooler than the air...

Only a good shaped pure hydratic lime plaster will work well in- and outside of a brick wall. There are many technical reasons, here are some of them: 1st The thermal expanding of lime mortar and bricks are very even (0,4-0,6 mm/m/100K), cement mortar will expand much more (~ 1,2) than the...

for your good wishes, which I will return with MERRY CHRISTMAS! And thanks for your friendly comment for my infosite. Atminstone similiar surprising may be this one: Thermal Insulation will cause Mould Attack and Loss of Energy. Another topic, but actual. Best regards Konrad