Q I am buying a house and the surveyor has stated that the damp-proof course is bridged by render. He found no signs of damp anywhere in the house. Do I need to worry? He suggests the render should be ...

Q My husband and I live in a bungalow converted from a building first constructed in 1914. We have lived here since 1993, but now one wall in a room has become very damp and we want to know if the ...

Damp is a silent demon that can wreak havoc on your home, often manifesting itself in dark emanations and evil smells but also capable of carrying out dastardly deeds without you suspecting a thing.

Nicholas Donnithorne, UK technical manager at Peter Cox, explores how landlords can identify, prevent, and address damp issues in older UK properties, particularly in response to increasingly wet ...

Nine times out of 10 a building with damp problems will date to before the 1920s when the vast majority of buildings didn't have a damp-proof course (DPC). There are exceptions: some decent builders ...

In 1999, the BBC2 programme Raising the Roof caused annoyance within the remedial industry by suggesting that rising damp did not exist, and that it was a concept invented by the industry in order to ...