Hi all,
Just joined the forum and am looking forward to a bit of clarity to a few problems I currently have with a house we have just bought
We knew before we bought the house that it had damp issues - it is 200years old and built on the sea front, also the dining room internal floor in the rear of the house is approx 300mm below external ground level.
I have started by completely stripping the plasterboard walls and their timbers in the dining room back to the stonework and lifting the timber floor, which it turns out only covered an original flagstone floor built up from the earth.
The walls are damp in places (mainly where the outside ground level is higher) and the floor is particularly damp.
I anticipate having to lift the flagstones and am thinking of laying a new concrete slab with membrane. Then I was thinking of tanking the walls with the Sovereign Hey'di Tanking System.
My questions are this:
1. What sort of slab build up thicknesses do I need to be looking for?
2. Do I need to install mesh reinforcement?
3. Do I need to install insulation in the floor?
4. What grade DPM is best?
5. Has anyone used the Hey'di system and is it any good?
6. How do I tackle the interface between the floor DPM and the Hey'di tanking?
Hope I have not asked too much for my first post......
Cheers,
MC
Just joined the forum and am looking forward to a bit of clarity to a few problems I currently have with a house we have just bought
We knew before we bought the house that it had damp issues - it is 200years old and built on the sea front, also the dining room internal floor in the rear of the house is approx 300mm below external ground level.
I have started by completely stripping the plasterboard walls and their timbers in the dining room back to the stonework and lifting the timber floor, which it turns out only covered an original flagstone floor built up from the earth.
The walls are damp in places (mainly where the outside ground level is higher) and the floor is particularly damp.
I anticipate having to lift the flagstones and am thinking of laying a new concrete slab with membrane. Then I was thinking of tanking the walls with the Sovereign Hey'di Tanking System.
My questions are this:
1. What sort of slab build up thicknesses do I need to be looking for?
2. Do I need to install mesh reinforcement?
3. Do I need to install insulation in the floor?
4. What grade DPM is best?
5. Has anyone used the Hey'di system and is it any good?
6. How do I tackle the interface between the floor DPM and the Hey'di tanking?
Hope I have not asked too much for my first post......
Cheers,
MC