hi
i'm not a plasterer but after a bit of advice if possible. my mum has an old house 1901 that the top attic room has a really damp front wall. the damp reader was reading upto 35 in places and the internal render has all blown. the walls are 9" solid brick, and when i hacked off some of the render to expose the internal brick the mortar joints are reading 50 on the damp meter and the yellow stock bricks about 30.
The roof is in decent shape so i'm guessing the damp is penetrating straight through the wall. the only trouble is on the outside of this wall is some original fancy 3d plasterwork of flowers etc, so that can't be touched, its also on the 3rd storey which make it difficult to add another coat of paint.
she hasn't got much money so i was going to try and sort it for her as she wanmts to sell up and move. my plan was to hack the old internal render off and paint something on the wall and then glue some plasterboard with some waterproof adhesive and dryline it.
my question is what would be best to paint on the bare brick? i have some tanking slurry left over from when i damproofed my garage a few years back. would that be sufficient? or would that and then maybe some dampseal damproofing paint on top of the tanking slurry.
do you reckon that would be sufficient? and what would you reckon would be best as an adhesive to hold the plasterboard in place but be damproof to hold it off the wall? i did use that expanding sticky foam for some insulated plasterboard on my own place which worked well rather than dot and dab but not sur3e if that would act as an extra damp membrane,
any advice appreciated, thanks in advance
i'm not a plasterer but after a bit of advice if possible. my mum has an old house 1901 that the top attic room has a really damp front wall. the damp reader was reading upto 35 in places and the internal render has all blown. the walls are 9" solid brick, and when i hacked off some of the render to expose the internal brick the mortar joints are reading 50 on the damp meter and the yellow stock bricks about 30.
The roof is in decent shape so i'm guessing the damp is penetrating straight through the wall. the only trouble is on the outside of this wall is some original fancy 3d plasterwork of flowers etc, so that can't be touched, its also on the 3rd storey which make it difficult to add another coat of paint.
she hasn't got much money so i was going to try and sort it for her as she wanmts to sell up and move. my plan was to hack the old internal render off and paint something on the wall and then glue some plasterboard with some waterproof adhesive and dryline it.
my question is what would be best to paint on the bare brick? i have some tanking slurry left over from when i damproofed my garage a few years back. would that be sufficient? or would that and then maybe some dampseal damproofing paint on top of the tanking slurry.
do you reckon that would be sufficient? and what would you reckon would be best as an adhesive to hold the plasterboard in place but be damproof to hold it off the wall? i did use that expanding sticky foam for some insulated plasterboard on my own place which worked well rather than dot and dab but not sur3e if that would act as an extra damp membrane,
any advice appreciated, thanks in advance