Hello,
About four months ago I paid around £3,000 for extensive damp works to my ground floor flat (plaster stripped back, DPC injected, replastered.) They did a really bad job with the plaster and didn't look after my house well at all.
On one wall the damp has returned in a line where the new plaster meets the old.
The company are coming over this week to re-do the plastering in the affected area. They say it is due to contaminated plaster and are replastering 1.2 -1.6m high.
My big worry is that we had a fireplace fitted after the original damp works. The contaminated plaster goes right up to the new fireplace and I'm very worried that they will damage it. Do I need to remove the fireplace or do you think it will be ok?
Also - any experts out there - does their diagnosis seem right? They seem to think if they replaster it again everything will be ok... but I can't see how it will be different to the last time...
Thanks for your help
About four months ago I paid around £3,000 for extensive damp works to my ground floor flat (plaster stripped back, DPC injected, replastered.) They did a really bad job with the plaster and didn't look after my house well at all.
On one wall the damp has returned in a line where the new plaster meets the old.
The company are coming over this week to re-do the plastering in the affected area. They say it is due to contaminated plaster and are replastering 1.2 -1.6m high.
My big worry is that we had a fireplace fitted after the original damp works. The contaminated plaster goes right up to the new fireplace and I'm very worried that they will damage it. Do I need to remove the fireplace or do you think it will be ok?
Also - any experts out there - does their diagnosis seem right? They seem to think if they replaster it again everything will be ok... but I can't see how it will be different to the last time...
Thanks for your help
