Rising Damp Treatment For A Winter With No Surprises

Rising Damp Treatment For A Winter With No Surprises

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A lot of people leave things until they are too late. Its known as locking the stable door after the horse is bolted. Like getting around to giving ones home some rising damp treatment after the rising damp has already become evident. While that, of course, is an option that should always be followed by anyone who does have the usual signs of rising damp persistent condensation, crumbling render, mould spots and so on the people who have yet to discover rising damp should not be sitting on their laurels.

Rising damp is caused when standing water under or near a house gets sucked up into its masonry. This happens easily and all the time. Any house that is not treated with damp proof resin or render will suck up all the liquid in its vicinity: the materials from which bricks, concrete and so on are made are all exceedingly porous.

Pausing only briefly, then, to note that no-one would need rising damp treatment if we just started making bricks that werent porous: winter is coming. And when it does, the rain will come too. Now is the time to get ones home checked not just for signs of existing damp, but for intimations that it could soon be prone to water ingress. Have the water coursing (the part of your house by the foundations, designed to run excess moisture out of the danger zone) checked, and fixed if necessary. If the water coursing is blocked in any way (and most are, after a couple of years), an un-proofed house needs to be damp proofed on the double.

All of this comes under the heading of rising damp treatment, which is a much broader term than one might think. Treating a home for rising damp does not start and finish with painting the outside in non-porous resin. Thats invaluable, once a house is dry: but it needs preparing first. If there are any signs, either, that damp is already in or, that it could soon come, a home must be dried and have its water course fixed. Then, it can be treated externally with preparations designed to keep water out for good.

Doing this now, before the rains come, is going to be a lot cheaper and a lot more effective than trying to do it when the walls are already knee deep in water. Like any treatment, rising damp treatment works much better as a preventive measure than a cure. A home can be rescued from rising damp at pretty much any stage of the game, mind (the costs and labour intensity just get higher): but, if one can catch the disease before its even started, so to speak, then one can save a fortune in time and money.

Effectively, the best form of rising damp treatment is a sort of inoculation: a vaccination for ones house against the future prospect of water ingress. Have a health check up on the walls and water coursing get everything in order and then treat the walls with a protective coating before the damp comes. That way, itll be good for around 10 years.

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Rising damp treatment can be very expensive, if left late but, when done early, its cheap and can prevent costly damage in the future.



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