HOW TO FIX DAMP | UK Property | Ste Hamilton 

Ste - I love how you ask the questions and how you simplify them. It’s easy to forget how advanced it is for other people when you’re already in the know. The builder was great too, comes across excellent on video 👏🏼

Darren looks like a very genuine damp repairer that you would want in your job and also he likes it old fashion and honest with the costing. Top man🤝

Not to suck eggs but the fact this is free advice on something so crucial! 🔥🔥

Another good knowledgable video for everyone! One of the main solutions for ensuring you have good insulation/ventilation for the upstairs, is to also make sure you have a breathable membrane felt under the roof tiles or slates, and also make sure you have sufficient ceiling batt insulation on top of the ceiling. Ceiling batts will keep the warmth in to the top floor rooms in the winter, and the breathable membrane felt will help ventilate the roof space in the summer. For added ventilation in to the roof space, you can also install roof vents in to the slate or tile, which will help air flow.

I think it's worthy to note that ventilation by opening windows and trickle vents avoids so much damp and mould caused just by living in a house.

Great video! Not cutting corners, attention to detail with questioning is spot on Ste. Literally to the extent I'd think of the question and you would ask. These types of videos really do help so thank you.

Damp and mold has the potential to induce respiratory illnesses. Children, elder people and those with weaker immune system are high risk. A responsible and moral investor should never skip investigating and stopping damp . Thank you for another informative and useful video, much appreciated!

What a great video! Really good questions, I like the way you simplified them to make it that little bit easier to understand. Thanks Ste 👏🏽

Great Video, The Property Circle is the gift that just keeps on giving⭕ Very good information 👍

This is unbelievably helpful. Darren is a top man and someone i would definitely want to work with because of his calm approach to answering every essential question so thoroughly and transparently. Thank you so much Steve

You should do a series of videos for these kinds of issues, to educate people and get your phone ringing a bit less.

Ste you're the best. You ask the questions we need to know

Great video Ste! Providing the goods as usual!

that was goldust. honstely. thank you both of you so much for doing this video.

What an Awesome video 👏🏾👏🏾 Always going above & beyond to help us learn 🙏🏾⭕️

Great video Ste lots of little nuggets taken from this video 👏👏👏👏

Wow an actual information video not selling me stuff, thank you so much!

This is terrific! Well done and thanks for sharing this information 👏

Very well produced, straight talking👊

Very productive video as usual.Really like your explanation and I'm proud to be a group of Property circle.Thanks mate😀

Brilliant video - many many thanks. I have rising damp in the basement and am looking at the dryzone rods to treat.

Great video, we've just purchased propety with damp issues. We're newbies and didn't understand about damp, but thnx to you and your video we feel less intimidated about the issues/causes/remedies, really appreciate your work 👍

Love this video 👏 great for first time home buyers as well as investors, and nice to put a face to a damp treatment specialist, makes them more trustworthy and is good to base future meetings off with how they should act/what they should know

Such a useful video - even to someone that knows a bit about the subject. Would love to see more similar videos on other topics.

Very helpful video !

Great video 🙌🏽

amazing as usual

Great video again 👏🏻 ⭕

Another amazing video! Thank you Ste 😊

Great video👏

Excellent and informative video, as always 🙏👌👏👏⭕

Amazing thanks

THANKS MATE

Damp is caused by the cavity walls being bridged with insulation(insulation touching the outer walls inside the cavity).Cavity walls must NOT be bridged with insulation or else moisture from the damp outer walls will transmit by capillary action through the touching bridging insulation into the inner walls, making it damp inside the property. Injecting foam into the cavity walls stops the walls breathing , causing drastic condensation saturation of the inner walls inside the building. Cavity wall insulation must touch only the inner walls inside the cavity of course. If cavity wall insulation batts(panels) are to be installed, there must be a LARGE air space gap in-between the outer walls and the cavity wall insulation batts inside the cavity, this includes a substantial air space gap in-between the cavity wall insulation batts and the cavity wall tie drip point(which must point downwards in the centre of the cavity). Ask City & Guilds N.V.Q. BRICKWORK teachers in person for proof of this, tey are the authority on brickwork construction. (S.V.Q. City & Guilds BRICKWORK in Scotland).

Very useful video 👌🏾👌🏾

Use a independent Damp Detectives survey not money gain companies like these people

Good video Ste.

Awesome ❤

Cavity wall house like that, shouldn’t have “damp”. Best course of action in all cases fix is to fix roof, pipe leakages, gutters, drains. “Rising damp” - Lower external ground level, I tend to put a breathable render on base of wall for a plinth. Then inside id batten out, and foilback plasterboard inside.

Damp always seems a problem and more soo in recent times.Have to check every source of the property and common sense usually prevails but what gets me is most houses in uk are pre war(100 yr)and have no problem with damp when first built but seem has time and decades past all of a sudden damp then appears from nowhere.Now I get building material might fail over time due to age etc but have a point in saying it also could be that we spend more time indoors than we did decades ago i.e we cook more,we hav more appliances on,more heating on eg,radiators,dryers,windows are more closed than open resulting in more co2 trapped in the property....its a point that of mine that I believe needs to be considered and a factor.Hes damped proofed the bay window with cream,damp proof render but there's still condensation on the bay window as seen and mentioned in the video...Not to say the work done isn't efficient but why ain't the damp air still around and not escaping.It really is a myth most of these processes of fixing damp and so is where it first comes from but I guess a full look of the property from top to bottom and inside-out will be valuable of course but also considering how people live is a fact and how often damp co2 is drawn out of the property.

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I wish you asked him about the French drain approach for rising damp

You wouldn’t knock off the plaster upstairs and sort the damp proofing out of the roof was leaking you’d just fix the roof 😂

Great video - easy to understand for newby and great questions ste - would you ever host a game show ste 😂😂👍🙂

Thanks Ste you didn’t mention the cost for rising damp?

Has the source in the chimney/roof/gutters been resolved?

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I have been diagnosing damp in properties for 27 years and have yet to recommend 'drilling and injecting' or hacking off plaster and tanking the wall(s). Yes, roof leaks and leaking gutters will cause damp issues, as too can faulty downpipes, blocked drains, high ground levels and cavity bridging. But on the whole if you find and fix the cause, the property will dry out naturally and there will be no need for a chemical DPC or re-plastering. You also don't mention hydroscopic chimney salts or the fact that 90% of damp problems are down to condensation. Call in one of these 'damp expert' companies and I guarantee it will cost you several thousands of pounds.

I have damp in my flat

Brilliant video. Whereabouts is Darren based? Very honest and professional individual.

09:30 - don’t know why his voice changed but this bit made me laugh out loud 😂

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