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Damp Proofing Walls with Wall Coatings – Last Chance to Save

by Apex Coating on Nov 25, 2010

The winter is charging at Britain like a rhino. The temperature is dropping; those misty skies are hanging around and dumping a fine sheen of slippery water all over everything: and the nights are drawing in at four o clock. Perfect environmental circumstances, in other words, for rising damp to really set in. If you haven’t already set about damp proofing walls with some impermeable wall coatings, then it’s about time you did. Unless, of course, you like spending the winter watching unidentified pores growing on your ceiling and your curtains falling apart through mildew.

Given that no-one likes any of the above: there is still time to set about doing a proper damp proofing of the home. Though it is really best left to the experts, because if you do it wrong and the damp gets in: well, then a) you’ve spent all that money for nothing; and b) you’ll find that incorrect damp proofing actually makes the problem worse because the damp that does get in gets stuck...Read More >>



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How to Choose Damp Proofing Material (Damp Proofing Material)

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Damp is very destructive to a building. So bad in fact the government regulations require one to take measures to counter it so as to have a certifiably habitable building. This means when building, choosing DPM is inevitable. It is wise to leave this choice to the mason or the contractor. It is however wise to familiarize yourself with the different types of DPM.

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