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What should i do where a new dpc is higher than the adjoining wall?
Anonymous user 03/03/2024 - 3.43 PM
New wall abutting an old wall and the new dpc is higher then the older wall. The brickwork therefore effetely bridges the old DPC? Is that an issue and if so what is needed to do that? MT
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Paul Marshall
Rating: 4.9 out of 5
if the new dpc bridges the old dpc it shouldn't be a problem aslong as there is sufficient overlap i would say a minimum of 600mm that should well and truly suffice
Answered24 July 2022
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Oakmont Building Services
Rating: 5 out of 5
Sometimes exterior ground levels are raise due to cowboys builders aslong as you make sure your dpc is minimum of 150mm from the highest point then you have done everything to regs and there no come backs
Answered4 August 2022
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AP brickwork
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Extend the old damp and step it up each course to meet the new damp overlap new damp over old damp in a perp ,you can put an extra length of damp over the join 500mm iether side of join ,,
Answered16 August 2022
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