Tag: demolition

  • Some steps forward

    Some steps forward

    The top concrete slab has been removed; in places, it looks like it was on sand that had been coloured with cement, and in other places it was actually closer to the 3:1 mix that it should have been. Two distinct patches of damp showed up when the slab was removed – one by the…

  • Investigating the damp

    Investigating the damp

    The builder has spent the day kangoing holes into walls and floors, looking for the source of the damp that is present in the party wall, and that destroyed the parquet floor that was underneath the engineered floor in the porch. Tomorrow’s project for me will be to buy a hose, hook it up to…

  • Yep, it’s damp

    Yep, it’s damp

    The builder showed up bright and early this morning, and we had a chat about what had been found in the first day of demolition and poking. The engineered wood floor came up very easily, and a powerful damp pong reeked through the property once that was done (I can’t smell it, clogged nose). The…