Hi all.

I am currently doing up a house and its not going too bad. One major problem with it that I have been leaving and expect to not really get to until next year is the kitchen. The house itself is an old cottage built of solid brick walls - no cavity. The kitchen has 3 external walls and well there was originally a drainage problem outside that has since been rectified. The walls are still damp despite a treatment of damp course.

Now I am leaving it all to see if it drys out anymore but I think there is a problem still. I think maybe the brickwork is saturated now or just broken down so much. But the cottage has been up for 160 years so not really convinced the place is going to fall down. Also, the floor in the kitchen we think is tiled straight onto dirt. Previously mud would come up through the joins of the tiles. This has stopped now but the place still feels damp.

So I was thinking the best method to stop the damp getting into the kitchen would be to tank the floor and half way up the walls. I think the place is not going to fall down so it might just allows us to sort the kitchen out without fear of damp getting in.

Anyone got any thoughts on this? Recommendations for tanking methods and appropriate compounds to use for tanking?

Thanks all

Trev

Hi,

Basically you need to have a proper floor installed with a DPM installed any work will be fruitless unless you have a solid damproof floor

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Hi, thanks for the reply.

I feared it might be a big job. How would I go about creating a proper floor with DPM installed?

Thanks

Trev