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still have some rising damp inside
If you did that 3 weeks ago then it will not have dried out yet. I was once told by a surveyor that brick takes about a month an inch to dry once a source of damp is removed. I think you need to wait a lot longer and then see what the wall is like.
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what is the ground flooring substructure? my only experience is from doing some prep for new floor boarding to be layed, taking up the old ones up only to find a load of damp soil..
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what I'm hoping for is suspended timber, where without much disturbance three or four boards can be lifted, exposing the soil , clear enough for a dehumidifier to be pulling the air from there and in a month it'll start to reverse decades of damp.. but I'm betting it's a lament flooring layed over (as i have and as is so popular in the [pre.viously]rental seen
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Or, and more cowboy but less work, drill a circular hole through the flooring to fit the the Henry hoover nose down and turn it on, that'll make the airbrick work
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So I dug out the little trench next to my external wall (cos the driveway was laid too high - up to the air bricks...) and still have some rising damp inside.
Anyone got experience excavating the crap out of their cavity walls (there's no insulation... But I suspect a lot of debris/run-off). Any tips?
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