Hi all,
So the wife and I bought a house last month and due to some shoddy work on the part of the surveyor have been left in a crap way.
The house had a conservatory put on abut 20 years ago and an extension in 2006 along with conversation of the garage. The extension was a new garage, a utility room and a conversation of the old garage to a downstairs loo and garden room.
We knew it was single skinned and planned on getting it sorted if it was currently free from damp. We were advised there were no current issues so went ahead with the purchase.
One month in and we are pulling our hair out, and feeling like we’ve made the worst decision ever! there is damp and cracking everywhere and with Corona now we can’t even get anyone to look at it and give us some idea what’s going to be required.
From what we can tell it all stems from the single small wall which has been built to connect the utility to the old garage. Due to the face the previous owner for some reason had no downpipe from the gutters, all the rain water ran down the wall. We asked again for the surveyor to look at it and report back (he said no issues HA!) and we got a guy to install a downpipe pretty much as soon as we moved in.
Anyway I’ve attcahed some pics: first set is of the external wall, it has holes at low level and needs repointing clearly.
Second set are of the conservatory walls near the windows (only the first is attached to the crappy wall but noticed issues on the other side too)
And the third set are of the damp in the utility of the other side of the wall where there is obviously penetrating damp.
I think my wife and I just essentially want an honest idea of what fixing all this crap may realistically cost.
I should add the long bits of missing paint on the conservatory walls are from where the previous owners (The Bodgertons as we can them lol) stuck strips to hide wires with no more nails to the walls 🙄)