A cement render goes back on a rising damp wall and lasts a season before it drums hollow again. Here’s how to render a damp wall so the repair actually holds.
Painter, plasterer, tiler or renderer: the simplest way to make more money as a builder is a job that protects your own work. Fit it in minutes, order it one unit at a time.
Crumbling external render at the base of a wall nearly always tells the same story: water rises, evaporates at the outer face and leaves its salts.
Rising damp height often surprises owners. Some walls stop at thirty centimetres, others climb well past a metre. Here is what sets that limit.
Loose wall tiles at the base worry owners, yet the fault rarely lies with the fixing. Water held in the masonry pushes from behind.
