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Soil and pebbles next to house cashing rising damp?
Anonymous user 14/03/2024 - 2.36 PM
On our house next to the driveway, we have about a 10cm gap between the concrete paving and exterior walls of the house. This gap is soil with pebbles over the top, could this be a cause of rising damp? A section of the house was injected with a DPC about 7 years ago but we are still getting rising damp issues. To the point that the carpet is physically wet in the house. The company that installed the DPC won’t look at it without us paying a fee that we would get back in a valid insurance claim can be made. They’ve already said if the render is damage or if limelite plaster wasn’t used. Then that would void the insurance backed guarantee. The render is sounding hallow on that section of the wall but I’m not sure if that’s the cause or not.
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