Fitz wrote:
Phil wrote:

Uh-oh. Another one falls victim to the chemical DPC scam....

It's very obvious that a lot of people are sceptical about rising damp
and chemical DPC to the point that they are suggesting gross
incompetence and/or fraudulent activity on behlaf of the companies
offering this service.

So I have a couple of questions:

1) Is the actual method of injecting a chemical DPC flawed for designed
purpose? i.e. in controlled conditions where you can create an
environment in which rising damp is manifested is it physically
possible to stop it by injecting the wall?

You need to take one step back here, as experiments to produce rising
damp have repeatedly failed.


2) Has anyone been persued, investigated or prosecuted for offering
fraudulent services with regard to injecting chemical DPC? If not whay
not, given peoples insistence of the level of con going on?

There are 2 answers here. The first is the case of a company that was
injecting water into brickwork instead of dampproofing chemicals. They
did this for an extended period, treating hundreds of properties, and
never had any complaints as a result. What one can conclude from this
is that dpc injection has very little or no effect in curing cases of
damp walls.

The 2nd answer is there are numerous companies in many areas in most
market sectors that routinely offer cures that dont cure anything other
than their own shortage of income. If they can construct and maintain
an argument to bolster their claims, regardless of whether its flawed,
its not technically fraud in the eyes of the law, and they can and
usually do continue trading.


I've seen damp come up through a floor without a DPC but don't think

It will if the floor is in the wet ground, but that in itself is not
rising damp.


NT