"Mike" wrote in message
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Stuart Noble wrote:
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I feel I have no option but to stop this damp getting through, but
how?

It isnt possible, thats the point. Unless youre wiling to dig down
outside and apply a membrane there.

Nonsense. Next time you go into the basement of a shop in one of
those trendy restoration areas, ask yourself how they got it so sweet
smelling and dry. I can assure you they don't dig up the street.

I'm trying to sort of do this by installing a pair of lintels through
the
walls then injecting liquid membrane onto the outside of the buried
walls.
I'll let you know how well it's worked next winter :-)

How will you get to the outside of the buried walls?
I have seen tanking done solely from the inside. Not quick and certainly
not
cheap but the results were impressive. A smelly *wet* basement in Notting
Hill converted to a fashion showroom in about 10 days.
Is this in the best interests of the building? Well, put it this way, I
know
a beautiful commercial listed building in East London which is quite
literally falling down because it cannot be economically restored. Great
for
the pigeons and the flies, and the bureaucrats


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