Tigger35ish
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Hello
I'm new here (been lurking and reading up for a few weeks!)
We moved in to our 1863 (ish) mid terrace town house in May.
We were aware at purchase of some damp issues in the lower ground floor kitchen. Having done a bit of research and pulled some flooring / floorboards up we have worked out that it is largely a condensation / airflow problem which we are addressing (new / more airbricks, vent fireplaces for starters)
On a couple of walls there was gypsum skim over lime plaster ...which has of course blown - pulled it off in sheets!
The lower half of the walls look to have been tanked at some point, and the fireplace and one half of the adjoining wall has very solidly attached gypsum so we think that was likely hacked right back to brick and cement rendered etc.
It's all bone dry so no evidence of an actual damp problem.
So that's a bit of background..my question is this:
We can't afford to hack all the gypsum/ tanking off and replace lime plaster. So we are kind of stuck with a half and half situation. Those walls definitely have cold spots that draw condensation. So we are thinking we could use rockwall kv600 thermal liner, and then claypaint to help allow the remaining lime to breathe, but still keep that wall a little warmer?
Does that sound sensible?
The other option might be to dry line just the recesses either side of the (gypsum covered) chimney stack with tongue and groove panelling - I quite like the thought of that, but carpenters are expensive!
Sorry for the long first post - I'd be grateful for any wise advice / experiences you could share.
I'm new here (been lurking and reading up for a few weeks!)
We moved in to our 1863 (ish) mid terrace town house in May.
We were aware at purchase of some damp issues in the lower ground floor kitchen. Having done a bit of research and pulled some flooring / floorboards up we have worked out that it is largely a condensation / airflow problem which we are addressing (new / more airbricks, vent fireplaces for starters)
On a couple of walls there was gypsum skim over lime plaster ...which has of course blown - pulled it off in sheets!
The lower half of the walls look to have been tanked at some point, and the fireplace and one half of the adjoining wall has very solidly attached gypsum so we think that was likely hacked right back to brick and cement rendered etc.
It's all bone dry so no evidence of an actual damp problem.
So that's a bit of background..my question is this:
We can't afford to hack all the gypsum/ tanking off and replace lime plaster. So we are kind of stuck with a half and half situation. Those walls definitely have cold spots that draw condensation. So we are thinking we could use rockwall kv600 thermal liner, and then claypaint to help allow the remaining lime to breathe, but still keep that wall a little warmer?
Does that sound sensible?
The other option might be to dry line just the recesses either side of the (gypsum covered) chimney stack with tongue and groove panelling - I quite like the thought of that, but carpenters are expensive!
Sorry for the long first post - I'd be grateful for any wise advice / experiences you could share.
