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found a house that seemed ok, now find it has rising damp to mainly ground floor, majority of walls, would you spend the dosh or find something drier?

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Why buy a problem?. bags of houses for sale at the moment.

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I think it depends on quite how much of a bargain it is and whether you were already planning on taking all of the plaster off when doing building work etc.

 

Unless it's a serious bargain and you wouldn't have an issue with the building work necessary then walk away and find something that's not going to mean you have to do building work as well as redecorating.

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It depends on how much you like the house. If your not too bothered about it walk away.

 

If you really like it and can visualise the finished house how you would like it that is a different story. People buy houses with problems for two reason, either they are cheap or the house has great potential for you to put your stamp on it.

 

Don't be afraid of the work, it wont take long and you'll get what you wanted afterwards and it will feel more of your house afterwards as you will have seen it bare and then can finish it how you want.

 

The important thing is that you get the house at a price that reflects the work that is needed for it to be in the state that you have visualised. If there is a damp problem then this will show up in everyone's survey, it is then up to the seller to either put this right before selling to get the price they wanted or to be reasonable and either drop the price or you could go halves on the work.

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John at Cannon damp proofing gives free surveys for damp problems, get him around and see how bad the problem is, might be nothing or it could be serious. His number 07775674823

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The first thing to check is that the level of the land outside is not higher than the floor inside, if it is it will probably just be a case of lowering the land around it and then leaving it to dry naturally.

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I'd like to see a survey that doesn't show up damp!

Just had some serious tanking done in ours (Bad ground level issues) Hadn't bothered us in 6 years, but hey, that survey......! (We've been selling)

I would recommend reading stuff on P Doyle's Independant Damp Surveyor site. http://www.pdoyle.net/

It's fascinating.

But yep, there are plenty of other places out there too.

When we bought ours we just loved it, despite it's 'problems' and I don't regret buying it for a minute. It has though been our much loved home, and not an investment.

Contractors will always offer a free quote, cos they will always be able to charge to repair the problem. That's maybe unfair. We went with SRG plastering in the end as he was the most thorough when he came to look at the walls. Timbewise quoted for a wall that turned out to be totally fine and yet missed the worst wall in the house!

Take from that what you will.

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