Dampproofing a basement flat

[Hoovie]

Been a few posts about damp recently and made me think of my first place back in '86 and what I SHOULD have done..

Basement flat in a Victorian Semi, so had two exterior walls that were maybe 60% below ground. Those walls started to suffer from damp in an area maybe 4 metre long.

What would the solution be to correct this? - The builder who did the conversion supposedly injected sone kind of damp proofing in the wall, but I bouight it directly post conversion and was only there for about 18 months tops, so I doubt it worked ever.

What I DID do to "fix" it was get some textured paint over the walls where the top plaster skim came off in one room and construct a built-in wardrobe to cover up the problem in the other, then keep the windows open ready for viewings and sold up!

[ultimatehandyman]

Tanking the cellar would be one option, but it is very expensive.

There are some new products now- membranes that are fixed to the walls with plastic fixings and then renderd over, these claim to do the trick, but again are expensive.

[Hoovie]

I moved to a first floor flat - no damp problems there .....





Until the person in the flat above let the bath overflow and the whole ceiling came down in the sitting room (this was about a week after I moved OUT to the next place, thank god!)