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 ...

Two plastics packaging recyclers have experienced mixed fortunes in their damp proof course production, writes Caroline Morley. In the North, Frank Mercer and Sons has successfully launched a new damp ...

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 ...

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 ...

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