Damp on IHBC

[biffvernon]

Here are a couple of posts I've nicked from http://www.ihbc.org.uk/openforum/index.html

By Paul wood on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 02:47 pm:

I'm preparing research into the effectiveness of chemical DPC and hope to find as much research as to its effectiveness as possible. If anyone has views that they would like to email or add for me to use i'd much appreciate it. Also if anyone has any referances to evaluating the effectiveness of Chemical DPC please could you e mail me them or if not i will pay for any postage and copying costs for the information

Thanks Paul Wood
PS im hoping to prove they are generally ineffective!

By Neil Buchanan on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 10:45 pm:

I do not have all the letters after my name or the technical training of most of the people posting here, for an awful lot of the properties with damp in towns and cities you only need to look at old photographs to see how high the the pavements and roads have become, I am currently working on a property that has down pipes that run of to the pavement, the pavement until very recently had 6" deep gulleys, the height from kerb top to road top was at most 1" it doesn't take rocket sience to work out where the water will go. Most of the older buildings were around long before Tarmac etc. and all the problems covering huge swathes of the country side with it cause to the lands in areas where the drains run to.

 

[PC]

Not sure who Paul Wood is, or who is funding his research but

It's all been done before............... there stacks of data on the performance of chemical DPC's.

The area of contention (in my mind) is their performance in certain building materials and types of construction.

i.e PERIOD BUILDINGS

PC

 

[Gervase]

Paul Wood has prepared a number of papers for English Heritage, if it's the Paul Wood I'm thinking about - so if you know of any DPC research, do point him in its direction, as he is likely to be in a position to have some influence.