Damp in garage
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NannaLyn
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Please can anyone help me? I am in the process of having a "loft conversion" built in my garage. The entrance to the garage at the front is at road level but to get to the back of my house and my neighbour's house there are 6 steps and a path which abutts the side of the garages and which have no damp proof membrane between them and the garage walls. Although the new room is well above this height, the wall in the garage itself gets very wet when it rains hard due to the rain soaking in to the path and the steps. Apart from rebuilding the steps can anyone suggest an inexpensive (!?) way of diverting the water away from the house? I really would like to have a dry garage! Thanks. Lyn
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NannaLyn
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The builders ARE going to tank the wall between the garage and the steps but they say that whilst this should probably stop the rain going into the garage it will still go into the wall and they think this should be rectified. They really want to demolish and rebuild the offending steps and path, put a damp membrane against the wall and leave a 30cm gap between the path and the garages. The path and steps run the full width of the the houses and is almost 2m wide. My neighbours are a young couple with three young children so I do not think they would be able to contribute to the cost. Anyway, the path is slightly sloped towards our house as we are downhill from them so their garage stays dry! I was hoping that it might be possible to insert some sort of drainage channel between our garage and path. I suggested this to the builders yesterday and they are "thinking about it". (As I am both female and an OAP I don't want to be taken for a ride!) Lyn
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Tony McC
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We are at a disadvanatage in that we can't see the site, but in your position, I'd ask for a second opinion. Call in a local builder or structural engineer and get them to take a look. Even if you have to pay, say, 200 quid for an engineer to give a verbal assessment, it's a lot cheaper than re-building a flight of steps and tanking an external wall.
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