Hello again chaps, You've all been very helpful in the past.
I'm a director for managing company for a block of late 60's flats where the walls are solid.
There are 2 adjoining flats on the ground floor on sloping ground where the higher flat has built a wooden deck unofficially. The lower flat is set forward at the back from the other by about 2metres. The deck and its brick structure underneath has caused damp in the lower flat along that wall where the decking runs off. No damp protection was built at the end of the deck.
A Expert witness surveyor has said that the vertical damp proof membrane is probably missing but we think otherwise.
My question is,
If we get the decking removed, can we drill through the 18" wall to find the membrane? How can we investigate whether it is there or not without making a very big hole in the wall?
Please help if you can?
Penny
I'm a director for managing company for a block of late 60's flats where the walls are solid.
There are 2 adjoining flats on the ground floor on sloping ground where the higher flat has built a wooden deck unofficially. The lower flat is set forward at the back from the other by about 2metres. The deck and its brick structure underneath has caused damp in the lower flat along that wall where the decking runs off. No damp protection was built at the end of the deck.
A Expert witness surveyor has said that the vertical damp proof membrane is probably missing but we think otherwise.
My question is,
If we get the decking removed, can we drill through the 18" wall to find the membrane? How can we investigate whether it is there or not without making a very big hole in the wall?
Please help if you can?
Penny