Hi everyone.
We moved into our house last year which has a large all wood conservatory 5m x 3m attached to it, we would like to replace this with a upvc one with a dwarf wall, the current one sits on a huge concrete pad which is at least 10 inches above ground level then there is a single row of bricks with the wooden conservatory sat on them, the bricks are set back on the concrete exposing about 6in of concrete base around the 3 sides. Now the thing is to my dismay i see the top of the concrete base is an inch above my house dpc !, the conservatory must have been there at least 20 years and there is no damp at all in the house, what I want to know can I build my dwarf wall on this concrete pad or am I going to have a problem with damp ?, the concrete pad by the way is so thick I think it could hold a battleship up and i dont relish the task of removing this as we cannot get any heavy machinery around the back of the house. I would be grateful for any advice.
We moved into our house last year which has a large all wood conservatory 5m x 3m attached to it, we would like to replace this with a upvc one with a dwarf wall, the current one sits on a huge concrete pad which is at least 10 inches above ground level then there is a single row of bricks with the wooden conservatory sat on them, the bricks are set back on the concrete exposing about 6in of concrete base around the 3 sides. Now the thing is to my dismay i see the top of the concrete base is an inch above my house dpc !, the conservatory must have been there at least 20 years and there is no damp at all in the house, what I want to know can I build my dwarf wall on this concrete pad or am I going to have a problem with damp ?, the concrete pad by the way is so thick I think it could hold a battleship up and i dont relish the task of removing this as we cannot get any heavy machinery around the back of the house. I would be grateful for any advice.
