Greetings. I've come by this forum through uk.diy, the google group. After some great advice on there, I've been recommended to try here for some more/better advice.
A bit of background - we have recently bought a Victorian end-terrace (c. 1903). It's an ex-student house but was owned by one of the student's father so has been looked after pretty well.
The survey we had done for the mortgage revealed damp in the chimeny breast and alcoves (we have since solved this (I hope) by ventilating a blocked up fireplace and taking care of some penetrating damp. The survey also revealed damp in an internal partition wall and said it was best to get this checked asap as it has contact with a suspended timber floor.
After we moved in we noticed that one end of this internal wall was particularly wet (to the extent that the wallpaper is peeling off) so I started investigating. We got a dpc bod in (actually a farmer who has a side line in damp proofing). I knew this was a mistake straight away - he was getting bizarrely high readings in one place and then a totally dry reading right next to it and didnt really have a clue what was going on - as expected recommended £3k on haking off all the plaster, reinjecting and plastering over.
I wasn't happy with this and set about more investigation. The DPC is from 1992 (the installers have ceased trading so no luck there). The whole ground floor has a concrete floor except the front room which has a suspended timber floor. My initial thoughts were the concrete floor is pushing all of the moisture from the floor out to the sides and up the walls - is this likely?
any or all of the following information may be useful
walls are brick with stone dressing, house is at the bottom of a hill, damp readings from damp bod were intermittently around the whole of the ground floor.
any advice / guidance gratefully received.
thanks for sticking with this annoyingly long post!
A bit of background - we have recently bought a Victorian end-terrace (c. 1903). It's an ex-student house but was owned by one of the student's father so has been looked after pretty well.
The survey we had done for the mortgage revealed damp in the chimeny breast and alcoves (we have since solved this (I hope) by ventilating a blocked up fireplace and taking care of some penetrating damp. The survey also revealed damp in an internal partition wall and said it was best to get this checked asap as it has contact with a suspended timber floor.
After we moved in we noticed that one end of this internal wall was particularly wet (to the extent that the wallpaper is peeling off) so I started investigating. We got a dpc bod in (actually a farmer who has a side line in damp proofing). I knew this was a mistake straight away - he was getting bizarrely high readings in one place and then a totally dry reading right next to it and didnt really have a clue what was going on - as expected recommended £3k on haking off all the plaster, reinjecting and plastering over.
I wasn't happy with this and set about more investigation. The DPC is from 1992 (the installers have ceased trading so no luck there). The whole ground floor has a concrete floor except the front room which has a suspended timber floor. My initial thoughts were the concrete floor is pushing all of the moisture from the floor out to the sides and up the walls - is this likely?
any or all of the following information may be useful
walls are brick with stone dressing, house is at the bottom of a hill, damp readings from damp bod were intermittently around the whole of the ground floor.
any advice / guidance gratefully received.
thanks for sticking with this annoyingly long post!