Evening chaps, unsure of whether this is the correct area to be asking about damp but I'll go ahead,
I am refurbishing my first house and hoping to move in within the next couple of months, upstairs is going well but I have moved onto downstairs and need to address a couple of damp walls brought up on the initial survey.
House is an early 1900s 2 up 2 down terrace 3 leafs of solid imperial bricks, all of the old sash windows (leaking in) have been replaced with Double glazing by a fensa reg'd lad.
Now I have removed all of the old plaster from the walls in the entire house, partly cause it was loose in many areas and partly due to a botched rewire (and crap replastering of chases) by the previous owner.
Main problems are that there was definetely damp in the front external wall (we have re-pointed the front outside and painted as per the other houses on the street) but I'd like to go belt and braces and treat it anyways.
Second problem is damp in the internal wall between the front room and under stairs cupboard.
The plan is to then lat the walls and mount plasterboard to the lats as per upstairs and let the plasterer crack on, guy I know mentioned putting dpc roll behind each lat but I was looking at paint on type treatments too.
Open to opinions guys any advice greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Alex
I am refurbishing my first house and hoping to move in within the next couple of months, upstairs is going well but I have moved onto downstairs and need to address a couple of damp walls brought up on the initial survey.
House is an early 1900s 2 up 2 down terrace 3 leafs of solid imperial bricks, all of the old sash windows (leaking in) have been replaced with Double glazing by a fensa reg'd lad.
Now I have removed all of the old plaster from the walls in the entire house, partly cause it was loose in many areas and partly due to a botched rewire (and crap replastering of chases) by the previous owner.
Main problems are that there was definetely damp in the front external wall (we have re-pointed the front outside and painted as per the other houses on the street) but I'd like to go belt and braces and treat it anyways.
Second problem is damp in the internal wall between the front room and under stairs cupboard.
The plan is to then lat the walls and mount plasterboard to the lats as per upstairs and let the plasterer crack on, guy I know mentioned putting dpc roll behind each lat but I was looking at paint on type treatments too.
Open to opinions guys any advice greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Alex
