Trying so sort out a damp problem in our kitchen. We had the house wall-lagged a few years ago (don't by the way!) and since then suffered terrible condensation. Anyway, back wall of kitchen also appears to be drawing in damp so decided to take a couple of bricks out to see if insulation material's wet.
Took out 2 bricks. We have a rendered house, only the first few rows of bricks visible. Anyway, expected to find cavity but there isn't, it's solid? Cavity only starts after next row, so 2 rows above DPC? The next row of bricks are set back about half an inch and render makes wall level with base bricks, a small step in other words if that makes sense?
Anyone heard of this type of construction before? Only appears to be that part of the house, it has no air bricks, unlike the rest of the house and now understand why. We believe in the past that this part of the house was originally some sort of semi-connected out-house used for coal but at some point was all connected up to house to extend kitchen.
Also anyone know of a company that can extract the insulation material from the walls?
Took out 2 bricks. We have a rendered house, only the first few rows of bricks visible. Anyway, expected to find cavity but there isn't, it's solid? Cavity only starts after next row, so 2 rows above DPC? The next row of bricks are set back about half an inch and render makes wall level with base bricks, a small step in other words if that makes sense?
Anyone heard of this type of construction before? Only appears to be that part of the house, it has no air bricks, unlike the rest of the house and now understand why. We believe in the past that this part of the house was originally some sort of semi-connected out-house used for coal but at some point was all connected up to house to extend kitchen.
Also anyone know of a company that can extract the insulation material from the walls?