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 ...

THE Listed Property Owners Club claim that many mortgage providers are decreasing the value of period properties. This is endangering their future by insisting that owners inject a modern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...