Rented from housing assoc, iv had rising and permeanting damp now for 7 years, it's a house converted into flats the house is on the 1911 census I'm ground floor, we have had issues still have with ground water pooling, heavy rain the meter goes up into the red also walls are soaking wet.
Mould is quite bad, plaster has blown also skirting boards and parts of floor has rotted, door frames are also showing signs of dry rot
anyway they have finally decided to fix the damp when they came out they said the usual type of damp works, fix cracks outside, rerender and damp proof course
Now they have told me they don't need to do any of this work all they need to do it battening on the walls, plasterboard with a membrane that by doing that it will create a void that will increase air flow and cure the damp
I have serious doubts about this work it's on every external wall, they are also replacing the radiators for larger ones as even with heating full blast it rarely goes above 17c in the flat has any one had experience of this and did it work for you as everything I have read says u need to sort the issue of damp out before putting plasterboard membrane or not over it
