Damp in the garage
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Ive had an issue with damp staining the paint on the bottom of my garage walls (inside), so since Im doing a garage refurbishment at the moment I thought Id strip back the paint, water down some PVA and coat the areas before repainting,
While stripping back the paint I realised the mortar and even the foundation/floor is a bit soft so decided to work out why its damp.
It turns out that the tarmac of the public footpath on the other side of the brick wall is higher than the lowest brick of the garage therefore letting in the damp and causing what Im concerned to be a possible future structural problem.

What do you guys think?

I seriously doubt it!

contact the council about it mate it is thier responcability to sort it out id say if its damaging your property

give em hell

You would be gutted if you had left your secret stash of garage porn in that area.

I did, I AM gutted

I seriously doubt it!

I would attack the outside, there is plaster That are waterproof you could also use à special foundation paint or good Old tar

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Get on to the council about it, they will most likely sort it out.

I seriously doubt it!

replace the porn...?

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Paul, do you know if the bricks are engineering bricks or commons?

paul i have seen this many times, what you need to do is make a 4" wide channel along that wall ouside the garage remove the tarmack and soil to a depth of a nats below the floor in the garage job done.

if its prone to gather water there place some of those arco water channel ducts to duct the water away.

or get the gibbbons at the counsil involved but you may be waiting many. years

Edited by BENROSS on 1st Mar, 2013.

I seriously doubt it!

I personally would dig at the pathway myself, but making sure its neat etc so no one will know or complain, i cant see the counsil doing alot, but like said previously ir want to be dug below your lowest course and find the most apropriate way to get rid of the water. At the mill at work its prone to flooding and we used a silicone based paint on silution to seal the walls in case the worst happens.

Edited by Rick.SPI on 1st Mar, 2013.

in that case, the only proper way to deal with it is to the remove the source of moisture externally, as all the others have suggested. remove the paving and permanently reduce levels or expose to apply a waterproof render below ground before reinstating the path.

there are ways of dealing with it internally with a tanking system but my concern, as yours is, is that the bricks and mortar will continue to deteriorate behind this.

as said above it needs a drain of some sort to remove the water and also needs to be sealed below the floor height with a membrane from the outside

i dont know how things work with your local peps but if someone reported me digging outside my property they'd slap a big fine so be careful

Ive emailed the council so I guess Ill wait for ages for a reply but thats a start

I seriously doubt it!

See how you go, my mum had an issue with a sunken kerb which in times of heavy rain was allowing gallons of water to flow over her drive towards her house. Reported it to the council who came to survey, agreed it was a problem and did ground work to resolve within a couple of months.

Keep on at the council - they have to fix this for you.

Guys,

It has nothing to do with with THE damp from THE outside......hè just need to make a hole in THE ground where "she" can take a leak! First lesson for Paul when you lock-up your wife/girlfriend!

Paul follow the email up with a call, tell them its damaging your property and if they dont act sharpish you will seek compo