Saeed wrote in message ...
The cellar of my old Victorian house is very damp.
I won't get round to any sort of tanking for a good while yet, so I am
thinking about cheap stop gap solutions to tide us over and make it a
more pleasant experience when having to go in the cellar to fetch some
tools.
I am thinking my two main prongs of attack should be ventilation and
heating.
ventilation yes, heating is a pricey way of only partially doing it.
I have the windows open, so it is nice and breezy down there, though I
did fix some mesh over the windows to prevent a vermin invasion.
I dont want to do any plumbing for radiators/gas. What options are there
for cheap effective heating, just enough to get the damp shifted, or am
I very much mistaken in seeing this as a remedy.
ventilation
remove non-porous paints from bricwork, eg gloss and emulsion.
dehumidifier
dont put membranes on walls, or youll get black mould
NT
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