Lucy
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Lime is what you need. Then the right paint to go on the top.I’m going to find some non gypsum plaster and perfect my plastering skills
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Lime is what you need. Then the right paint to go on the top.I’m going to find some non gypsum plaster and perfect my plastering skills
I would probably have surprised myself, but not in a good way.I plastered quite a lot of the house a few months back , actually surprised myself
Thanks for the tip!Lime is what you need. Then the right paint to go on the top.
Did you have a silicone injection (not being personal )..?Interesting. When I bought my house it had a new dpc and had been replastered. About 3 years ago I started to see rising damp but the guarantee is worthless. What is the treatment for this nowadays as dpcs don't seem to be the thing now as they were in the 80s. Will I need to treat and replaster or are their other options? Thanks
Older houses also expected to have open fires running, or at least boilers getting their air from inside the house, and draughty windows and doors, pulling a much higher air-change rate than you'll get today, especially with balanced flue heating and better fitting windows and doors.Modern building techniques don't work with older houses.
It had something injected as I have the round holes.. What's the treatment nowadays?Did you have a silicone injection (not being personal )..?
Or was it a 'real' damp course - this is possible, but an unlikely retrofit.
If it was silicone, it could be that it could do with doing again, maybe?
That'll be a silicone job, I would suspect. I imagine that it still goes on now, but I haven't seen anybody doing it for ages - of course, there are no new houses that should 'need' it.It had something injected as I have the round holes.. What's the treatment nowadays?