Hi folks,
I need a little bit of advice here, we live in a semi- and our next door neighbours recently had they house extended. They have had the whole property re-rough casted, when doing this they actually went beyond the property line and roughcasted 6" too much onto ourside. That problem a side, I have now noticed a damp patch in the corner of the bedroom at almost exactly inline with where the new roughcast finishes. We have never had a damp issue in before so it the roughcasting seems to be the likely issue.
Originally the builders didn't bother to seal up the joint between the old and new, I had to tell the neighbours about this and they came back out with a silicon seal. I am worried that there is either a crack, or gap somewhere that is letting the water in or they have damaged the brickwork.
We are in Scotland and have had fair amount of snow lying on the roof (which has been aqua sealed), I think that the snow has started to melt and the water is getting in somewhere.
Could a gap/crack in the roughcasting really cause this type of issue? How do I go about proving this, I don't want to be living in a damp house because of the neighbours extension.
Cheers.
I need a little bit of advice here, we live in a semi- and our next door neighbours recently had they house extended. They have had the whole property re-rough casted, when doing this they actually went beyond the property line and roughcasted 6" too much onto ourside. That problem a side, I have now noticed a damp patch in the corner of the bedroom at almost exactly inline with where the new roughcast finishes. We have never had a damp issue in before so it the roughcasting seems to be the likely issue.
Originally the builders didn't bother to seal up the joint between the old and new, I had to tell the neighbours about this and they came back out with a silicon seal. I am worried that there is either a crack, or gap somewhere that is letting the water in or they have damaged the brickwork.
We are in Scotland and have had fair amount of snow lying on the roof (which has been aqua sealed), I think that the snow has started to melt and the water is getting in somewhere.
Could a gap/crack in the roughcasting really cause this type of issue? How do I go about proving this, I don't want to be living in a damp house because of the neighbours extension.
Cheers.