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Yes, very true, but I'm relying on the advice of 5 different people who've inspected it and don't think this is the issue.

Yep, I'm aware of his videos on youtube. He comes across as a bit of a nutter, although I'm not completely discounting his claims. It certainly seems to be true that a lot of companies make a lot of money from damp work, but I don't buy the idea that it's some big global conspiracy. It also...

I got my neighbour to take a look and he's pretty sure there are no water pipes round that part of the wall. Another man came to give a quote and reckoned 500 for the same work - knock the plaster out up to 1 metre, put in an air membrane, plaster over, inject some DPC cream into the foot of...

Hi, thanks for the reply. No, the damp map just scanned around with a hand held metre. It was much damper at the bottom than further up, and he seemed confident it was rising damp. So it would be the sand + lime plaster until 50mm from the bottom, then that 50mm gap at the bottom they'd fill...

Thank you so much for answering. Here's some photos. It's a 1960s semi, no no water metre. My hall and kitchen are on the other side of the wall. I've checked them, but no sign of damp. I don't *think* there are any heating pipes in that bit of wall (I tried working out by following where the...

I've started decorating in my living room and notice that the skirting in the middle of one of the internal walls has started to rot. The wallpaper peeled off really easily, and I could see faint water stains up to about a foot above the ground. The plaster seems sound. I've had one guy in to...