Hello all
We've lived with a high water table under the house since we moved in a few years ago. There is no damp in the house although we suffer with bad condensation on the windows (UPVC) and one interior corner wall (which I've hopefully just rectified with good insulation paper and a de-humidifier).
The crawl space under the floor is approx 850cm and the water makes an appearance after heavy rainfall in a few lower places where the floor meets the shared wall. The rest of the floor is water free but always damp and it seems to be just earth under there. There is lots of ventilation in the way of airbricks and I even put in a few extra ones last year.
We've had a couple of damp 'experts' out to the house and they just said as long as it's not penetrating above the DPC then there's nothing to worry about. However, we can definitely smell damp now, it seems top be coming up through the carpets.
What we're thinking of is taking up the whole ground floor floor and getting someone to put in a concrete floor up to the current level. With the correct DPCs in place, can anyone let me know if this is possible and, more importantly, would it work? I know it's a big job but we want to stay in the house and just want this sorted now.
Any advice greatfully received, including what sort of cost I'd be looking at.
Thanks
Andrew
We've lived with a high water table under the house since we moved in a few years ago. There is no damp in the house although we suffer with bad condensation on the windows (UPVC) and one interior corner wall (which I've hopefully just rectified with good insulation paper and a de-humidifier).
The crawl space under the floor is approx 850cm and the water makes an appearance after heavy rainfall in a few lower places where the floor meets the shared wall. The rest of the floor is water free but always damp and it seems to be just earth under there. There is lots of ventilation in the way of airbricks and I even put in a few extra ones last year.
We've had a couple of damp 'experts' out to the house and they just said as long as it's not penetrating above the DPC then there's nothing to worry about. However, we can definitely smell damp now, it seems top be coming up through the carpets.
What we're thinking of is taking up the whole ground floor floor and getting someone to put in a concrete floor up to the current level. With the correct DPCs in place, can anyone let me know if this is possible and, more importantly, would it work? I know it's a big job but we want to stay in the house and just want this sorted now.
Any advice greatfully received, including what sort of cost I'd be looking at.
Thanks
Andrew
