Damp proofing

[islandview]

Hello fellas

I have just been to visit my mate in london to see his new house. He has had a bit of work done to it and I was concerned when he showed me the damp proofing.

The front corner and the back corner of the house had showed signs of damp. A damp proofing company came in and said it was rising damp. They knocked off roughly 2 M2 from each corner, injected just that area then re-plastered it.
They dug out some of the ground outside where the affected area would be and put in pea shingle.

When I was looking at his newly decorated room it looked like there was damp coming through about a metre away from where the treatment had been done.

Has this job been done correctly or is the damp just now moving to a new area?

He paid £2000 for the work to be carried out.

Cheers for any input

 

[barryed]

2k for 4m2?

 

[bubbles65]

and some pea gravel baz:RpS_thumbup:

 

[Arti]

The wall will still be drying out. it takes roughly 1 month per inch thickness of wall to dry out. If he used a vinyl paint to decorate thats not going to let the moisture come out the wall either.

 

[irish_spread]

its never rising damp mate, its a scam

 

[islandview]

the area that is damp is not the area that was treated. The only area that was injected was in the corners. I thought that surely the damp will just move along the wall. I think he has been done but I couldnt say for sure as im not the expert.

 

[henry]

Pea gravel is the right way of doing things.

 

[lucius]

Damp can travel when part of a wall has been treated but difficult to comment on it without seeing first hand, to many contributing factors could be the cause.

 

[JamieMac]

if the area that is damp has not been treated.as you said then.how can a dpc work.if you treat the bit that is not damp.