Plastering & Rendering

1880s damp building with render on outside

Anonymous user 16 March 2024 - 2.47 PM

Hi, We discovered our house was full of damp from the garden encroaching and covering the DPC and all the air bricks. We have dug a french drain around the house and have since pulled up all the floors, cleared any rubble, laid DPM, insulation and relaid chipboard then UFH and finally floorboards. Next step is tackling the walls. The external walls all needed to have the damp plaster removed. We have added insulation and plasterboard. Now debating if we need to use lime to plaster or gypsum given that the outside walls are covered in render anyway. We used only lime in one room and it was such a pain we moved to the plasterboards, and now we are wondering if we really need to use the lime at all. Thanks for reading.