I agree, but then articles like this are the reason these people are so annoyed at the installers, they make it sound like there are mysterious procedures and practices which are not being followed, while failing to detail any of them and making the problem worse.
Anyone reading this will only ever come to the conclusion that they had a bad installer and won’t want their help, all while their house is turning into a stroganoff.
I know a lot about building and insulation. The most likely cause of this is pre-existing damp that was just exasperated by the insulation making it warm on top of the damp.
If there is any sign of “rising damp” the modern way of dealing with it is by installing a layer of DryRods, however if the insulation was installed during a particularly dry period there might not have been evidence of a pre-existing problem.
Other than that possibility it could be an unrelated pipe leak, physical damage to the insulation and render, or an issue with the guttering.
Finally cold-bridging where a portion of the envelope of the house is uninsulated and forms condensation, this is pretty much the only issue which could be a mistake on behalf of installer, but even then it should be obvious and made worse by failing to open windows or turn on extractors when showering, drying washing or cooking.
Any of this information could have been in the article, it’s absence is suspicious. Whatever the reason the first thing you need to do is let the contractor investigate.
It sounds like the company is offering to come back and fix whatever problem is causing the damp but the homeowner is refusing to let them fix it. Sounds like they’re just idiots.
The article doesn’t say what installation standards are not being adhered to. It’s not rocket science, you take insulation boards, you glue or screw or both to the house and you mesh ad render over the top. It sounds like whoever wrote this didn’t do much investigation.
What a waste of money, ask any independent climate scientist what you could could spend £22bn on, carbon capture and storage wouldn’t even be in the top 100 suggestions.
Some power tips…. F12 opens and closes the console window, and in Brave browser at least it remembers your last command so you can just press the up arrow and enter to run the last command. YouTube will reset to 2.0x on each new video as that is their highest value. There are browser extensions that can do all this for you but every new extension is another possible attack vector or potentially malicious party you are adding to your digital world.
Er… I’ve only ever tried 2.x-3.x.
All work… some creators speak fast and I’m limited to 2.8, but others I have at 3.5 or 3.8.
Not pushed it further than that but if you want to try 1.7*10^308 you do you my dude!
TBH it’s well worth the 30mins… or 15mins at 2x… or if your Chrome console-fu and listening skills are high enough just 10mins with “$(‘video’).playbackRate=3.0”
These devices always remind me of these guys trying to make Solid State Refrigerant:
I suspect they fall into the same category of “neat concept but commercially useless”
Just because you want it to be hot back there doesn’t mean we all do.
Ah yes I always forget about the archive!
I was so close… petrified businesses not ruined businesses, they are just scared of being ruined.
I generally don’t believe anything printed by the Torygraph. I’m not going to donate my data or any money to them so I can only read the headline, I’m guessing they are putting a really negative spin on it? ‘Labour will tank the economy’ and make things much harder for already ruined businesses (while not mentioning what spent the last 14 years ruining them)
I’ll just be glad to be well enough to get back to work, a 4 day week may get me back much sooner.
This guy I swear is looking at my internet search history… The closers most popular around here are the sprung chains in a cylinder hidden in the hinge style. Not sure they have close/latch speed options though. I need to sort out my garage and stairs fire doors, as they are currently always held open by a fire extinguisher (for irony) and a stuffed dog respectively.
Maybe, but if you are a disgusting human being anyway you may as well do everything they want and they might give you another 10k next year.
We could have told them… but you should never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
It’s a non-news story so no papers are talking about it right now except this one trying to score points from it.
The Guardian ran the story last year when the guidance actually changed during the Malkinson compensation case.
25% of turnover would be painful… 25% of profit and we’d have to pay them!
I just wish instead of weapons, we were a world leader in solar panel and wind turbine design and manufacturing.
It’s obvious people have not read the article which refers to cases where the decision was made years ago under the Tory government. Future bed and board payments are being reviewed and expected to be scrapped.
In this case he was awarded £650k compensation and £37k was deducted from that.
I understand the line in the sand where the country has been bankrupted and just can’t revisit every bad decision made over the last 15 years and pay up, there isn’t the money or the court time.
Unfortunately this article is written to stoke hate for the current government, I’m just offering the alternative bias.
So the Tories spent all the money, promised an extra £22bn that they didn’t have… and didn’t even have the decency to leave a note.
I’m not aware of any insulation and rendering options that allow breathability of the sub structure. This is why any internal leaks need to be fixed and rising damp needs to be mitigated with DryRods.
Pretty much the only buildings that cannot be insulated without a massive amount of work is where the floor of the building is sitting in groundwater without a waterproofing membrane.