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by motormusic1
Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:34 pm
Forum: Damp and Damp Proofing Forum
Topic: Please Help - 13 Years of Misery With Single Brick Outhouse and Damp
Replies: 5
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Re: Please Help - 13 Years of Misery With Single Brick Outhouse and Damp

So to clarify, I Batten the damp wall with pressure treated timber, add insulation foam boards in between, then staple/nail the sheet over the top before facing with ply? I'll be putting base units against these walls so don't want them to get damp like the current ones have (and subsequently destro...
by motormusic1
Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:15 pm
Forum: Damp and Damp Proofing Forum
Topic: Please Help - 13 Years of Misery With Single Brick Outhouse and Damp
Replies: 5
Views: 15478

Re: Please Help - 13 Years of Misery With Single Brick Outhouse and Damp

there are 2 ways to do this, if you want to take all the plaster off back to the bare brick, then replaster, use limelight plaster and then a high impact finish plaster. If you want to insulate the walls, then you must seal the brickwork with something like aquaprufe then batten the room out ,insul...
by motormusic1
Mon Mar 02, 2015 11:00 pm
Forum: Damp and Damp Proofing Forum
Topic: Please Help - 13 Years of Misery With Single Brick Outhouse and Damp
Replies: 5
Views: 15478

Please Help - 13 Years of Misery With Single Brick Outhouse and Damp

Hi guys.. i've just registered so a quick hi to all of you. I really am struggling. I have a house which i know had an old single brick outhouse(?) on the back which past owners have had knocked through to increase the size of the kitchen. When we moved in this part of the kitchen (the back) was cla...
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