I'm hoping someone can give me some advice. I have a regular 3 storey town house - with the lowest level below ground floor. The lower floor is not totally below ground level, and there are small windows in both of the lower level rooms. Both rooms suffer from damp problems - assuming its beacuse it has not been tanked out.
I have had various specialist damp proof companies come in to give me quotes on the repairs - which is around £16k. They recommend a DPC injection in the wall particioning the two rooms, and tanking for all the walls and the stairways to the cellar.
Unfortunatley I cannot afford £16k at the moment and was thinking of doing the tanking by purcahsing the tanking slurry (premixed) and then getting a plasterer to plaster it. I have read up on how to do it, i.e. strip walls of plaster down to the origional brick work. Take down brick mortar by 1.5", then apply 3:1 sand & cenemt, followed by the tanking slurry (2 coats in recomended mixes, etc).
However, what I do not know is if I need to tank the whole wall down to floorboard level (or go further down under the floorboards), also how long I should leave the tanking to dry before skimming the whole place (is it 3 months?).
I would really appreciate any advice anyone could give on this. Thanks
I have had various specialist damp proof companies come in to give me quotes on the repairs - which is around £16k. They recommend a DPC injection in the wall particioning the two rooms, and tanking for all the walls and the stairways to the cellar.
Unfortunatley I cannot afford £16k at the moment and was thinking of doing the tanking by purcahsing the tanking slurry (premixed) and then getting a plasterer to plaster it. I have read up on how to do it, i.e. strip walls of plaster down to the origional brick work. Take down brick mortar by 1.5", then apply 3:1 sand & cenemt, followed by the tanking slurry (2 coats in recomended mixes, etc).
However, what I do not know is if I need to tank the whole wall down to floorboard level (or go further down under the floorboards), also how long I should leave the tanking to dry before skimming the whole place (is it 3 months?).
I would really appreciate any advice anyone could give on this. Thanks
