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So there was a small hairline crack above the door in my house and about 2 yeas ago a builder came round and said 'you should get that looked at'. I called the insurance company last year and a guy came out. He looked around and then signed a bit of paper saying 'no subsidence.' fine I...

thanks a million jeds, prince of darkness. I'll look into some of these. as for the drive height. I have some old pictures. It used to be a council park and the council sold it to the developer. The old pics show it WAS amazingly at that height. The only change has been, further down the...

Hey Justin. so the situation is pretty similar to your drawing The red circle is the damp which is above the line of the damp proof course. I feel this is just damp rising above it. actually though the drive is on a slope and the neighbours drive just gets higher and higher the...

erm...I'm not sure what any of that means.

Sorry, I didn't see these new replies. For some reason the site isn't telling me about replies anymore. ok, I'll try to whip up a paint drawing but my artistic skills leave a bit to be desired. In reply to Roger's questions it is. Though recently it's started to appear below it again...

Ok so I got a professional damp guy round. Another £200 on this endless problem. Here are his suggestions. He's not convinced lowering the neighbours drive with necessarily solve the problem. He also thinks removing the paint and applying "a breathable waterproof barrier" would help. His...

There is a pantry under the stairs, all the terraced houses around here are build like this. There are a couple of vents in the front. There is a vent in the side that was covered with stones etc it's on the picture. It's a student house and it had just filled up with junk over the last...

Hi wessex, Thanks for the advice. where would I find someone like that? I had a company called 'Peter Cox' come round and they weren't particularly helpful. What kind of qualifications should I look for? The damp was originally lower. When they did the work the damp disappeared for a few...

This is a VERY interesting post. The reason I say this is because we noticed that the same paint used was used to pain the wooden park benches over the road. The other day we noticed that the benches were dry and where the paint had flaked off and still damp where the paint was still there...

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I goes into the side of the wall.

thanks for all these suggestions. I'm starting to feel that there may be something I can do about this problem. regarding a refund the company wrote: I didn't pursue this and I became a bit disenchanted with damp companies as we had two come round to look at the problem and they both...

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Thanks for taking the time to reply. I appreciate it. :) Yes I've tried. The claim that it was guaranteed until I wrote to them asking for them to sort it out. They then claimed that only one certain deal was guaranteed, not the one I had -of course. Well I had injecta do it and they...

I have damp. I need help long story... I bought a house about 4 years ago and a year after we moved in damp appeared on the walls (gabel end of terraced). A few builders came round and said "the neighbours drive is too high and it's breaching your damp course." I wrote to the neighbour...

you seem to be confused, and I don't really know what to say since you don't seem to actually be reading/understanding what I've written. I took ALL the advice on this thread. I got an independent surveyor round. The surveyor said "I can't tell for sure if it's your neighbour causing the...

I just want the problem resolved and I would even consider paying to have his drive lowered if I thought that would solve the problem. But what happens if I pay a ton of money to get that done and nothing changes? What happens if the guy says no? I appreciate the advice but I just think it's...

ah hindsight! :lol: the problem is there is no evidence that the neighbour's drive categorically "is" the cause of the problem, after all, the surveyor said he couldn't say for sure. The neighbour may be open to my paying to have his drive dug up and lowered but, and I might be being...

OK done. The independent surveyor said that the damp isn't so bad and that a lot of houses have it. He suggested marking where the damp is on the walls with pencil and watching it for 12 months. He also said he would be unwilling to say it was the neighbours fault as though the drive is...