Tanking a kitchen

[mrowen]

Hi, After some advice. We recently had our living room damp proofing redone after I wasn't happy with the results of the first job. I am fitting a new kitchen pretty soon and I know the same stretch of wall in the kitchen will be the same (mould on the back of the units, walls in cupboards etc)

So after a bit of research I think I can do this job myself, but the amount of products out there to do this is a bit confusing to me, from what i saw when the guys came to tank the living room (my house sits a couple of foot below an ajoining road - im on the end of a terrace) they didn't use any kind of membrane, they seemed to knock all the plaster off, render the wall (greyish layer) then another layer (brown) then the finsihing plaster. I did notice they had a tub of a chemical called SBR there.

I'm after the cheapest but most effective way of tanking 1mtr up, after looking here http://www.kingfisheruk.com/shop.php?pa ... nt_tanking this seems similar to how they did it ?

I was thinking of getting the squirty dpc cream, putting a dpc int hat way then;

salt neutraliser>render>some kind of tanking slurry stuff>more render/plaster backing coat>finsih plaster.

Does this seem like the best way ? and do the prices on here seem fine ? Im not sure if I need a whole range of products from one company, if they only work that way, or if I can grab some salt neutrasliser from somehwre cheaper etc etc.

apologies for the long post - but I'm fairly confident I can do this, i just need to know how to, what to use !

Cheers

[leebwk]

Unless this has been proven to be rising damp, then i would assume that this was just bad air circulation being behind a cupboard plus there is an element of dampness in kitchens

[mrowen]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply - I know what you mean about the circulation etc, the reason I'm pretty sure it's going to be rising damp/penetrating damp is the kicthen in wall in question is just a continuation of the wall in the living room which had the main problems, the kitchen room is also a couple of foot below the level of the road outside, bieng an end terrace - and the water table seems quite high, allthough we are at the top of a hill. So I'm assumming Im going to have to tank that whole section to stop the damp - like in a cellar.

Cheers

Owen