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Rising damp

  • 26-03-2011 5:37pm
    #1
    bozley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭


    Hi Folks,
    Our house which is 6 yrs old has started to develop rising damp which has peeled all the paint off about 6 inches from the skirting in kitchen. We've just realised that the pipes from the guttering were put under the path outside!!! If we relay the pipes to a soakage pit, will the dampness on the walls eventually dry out or is there something else we can do :mad:


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  • #2
    Carlow52
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭Carlow52


    Some musings:
    kitchen = appliances such as d/washer/clothes washer/sink/ pipes buried in concrete floor/ plastic DPC under floor means water from a leaking pipe may have no where else to go.
    I don't think its the rainwater gutters because path should be 6" below wall dpc....


  • #3
    bozley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭bozley


    All my appliances are in the utility room bar my sink which is the other side of kitchen. It was suggested to us last week by a builder friend of ours that maybe no dpc was used at all..........................That is against building regs isn't it??:confused:


  • #4
    jj build
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 67 ✭✭jj build


    Hi ,sounds like a pipe leaking in the floor or the wall ,if there where no dpc the damp would be a lot hire.Can you put photos up .


  • #5
    DUB777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭DUB777


    No DPC or DPM is a serious breach of the reg's & an expensive one to fix.:(


  • #6
    El Camino
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭El Camino


    Hi guys,

    I've a similar issue myself (see picture attached). I thought this was due to a leak with the radiator but there has never been a drop of water on the floor in the area. I've a similar issue under 2 radiators, both on internal walls and the same bubbling of paint on an external wall with no radiator nearby.

    Any ideas as to what this might be?

    Is it likely to be a leaking pipe underground or DPC issue?

    wall.JPG


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