Knowing the difference between rising damp and penetrative damp is key to tackling the problem, and will give you the best chance of getting rid of damp in the home. Rising damp and penetrating damp ...

Stephen Boniface, former chairman of the construction arm of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), has told the institute’s 40,000 members that ‘true rising damp’ is a myth and ...

In 1999, the BBC2 programme Raising the Roof caused annoyance within the remedial industry by suggesting that rising damp did not exist, and that it was a concept invented by the industry in order to ...