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Damp Proofing

Damp to bottom of internal wall

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.15 PM

My daughter recently bought a terraced house. The house is rendered and is double fronted with the stairs situated in the middle of the house and a fireplace and chimney in the lounge on other side of one of the stair walls. There is damp rising to about four inches above the skirting boards in the lounge on the internal wall which backs onto stairs and is the wall which has the fireplace in the middle, so the damp is either side of this fireplace and is worse to the side which abuts the bottom of the staircase. Could this be rising damp or could it be anything to do with the fireplace/chimney? The wall on the rise of the staircase does not seem to be affected.

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2 Answers

Ubuilt

Rating: 4.7 out of 5

Bristol

This could be rising damp but the true source might not be from the ground up as this I feel the damp would display more aggressively. Is the fire place open or bricked up as is often the case. It may need ventilation to ease the likely condensation. Is the chimney pot open to the elements?.. as a cowl is a possible solution to reduce weathering and rain water entering the chimney stack.

Answered15 August 2015

D C Mcguire Interiors

Rating: 5 out of 5

Bournemouth

More than likely the chimney if your not using the chimney you can take down just below to the roof height and make good the roof this should take about 2 days to complete the expense is the scaffold and the skips. 2men 2days labour make sure if you do this, If you remove the fire places the chimney has air vents as the soot will attract damp. Any damp caused to the plastered walls will dry out.

Answered15 August 2015