Yep, I read it. Pretty lightweight article though and written to entertain the masses rather that give any useful information. The guy in question is from SPAB so presumably has the right sort of idea. Apparently he had only seen one case of rising damp in 30,000 properties. Frankly he did'nt look old enough to have inspected 30,000 properties so I suspect that this was another case of bad journalism. Mike.
Who was it from SPAB? Possibly the newspaper report wasn't reporting what he said accurately of course... or is that too radical a suggestion?
SPAB does, of course, produce useful information about damp and how to deal with it - and how it's not a good idea to deal with it - in historic buildings.
Ive seen this claim before that he had only ever come across rising damp on one occasion, then I found out that he spent part of his life working for a council, most of woes properties were flats and high rise with condensation.
I wonder if it is the same person / website I posted a link recently? He works for Lewisham council I think. He's often in the press and has been on TV. He points out that most houses have a DPC which works - his claim is not that there isn't rising damp, but rather that he has come across very few cases where it was caused by a failed DPC. A reasonable point of view.