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 ...

Don't ignore damp - deal with it now before your walls get too wet, says Suzanna Bain. If you leave that ever-growing damp patch for very much longer without paying any serious attention to it, all ...

Adam covers home improvements and mobile networks, splitting his time investigating topics from bathrooms to phone contracts. He was shortlisted at the BSME Talent Awards 2024. In this article How ...

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 ...

If you leave that ever-growing damp patch for very much longer without paying any serious attention to it, all you are proving is that you are a real drip when it comes to tackling home DIY. If you ...

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 ...