My rant at the ignorance and charlatanry in the surveying industry where period properties are concerned.
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@s4eedm Жыл бұрын
Same thing across the board, most plasterers likely don't know about or won't touch lime. Just had to turn away a plasterer for refusing to not use sand and cement. Gypsum, sand and cement has single handily blown all of the render off the wall in my kitchen. Including blocking up the ventilation with Polyfilla years ago. All sense has gone out the window in the name of cheap products and a fast turnaround for the tradesmen. There was even suggestion in boarding this vent over again!
@jakebarnes30546 ай бұрын
What should I use instead of polyfilla? What does polyfilla do, moisture-wise? Doing up my house at the minute.
@sleepingdragon9326 күн бұрын
Give them my card, I love the lime and every poor bugger that meets me gets a lecture from me 😂
@sleepingdragon9326 күн бұрын
Lime putty with very fine sand
@michaeljamesdesign25 күн бұрын
It's difficult to make money using traditional products because of the time they take and the costs incurred. So most tradesmen with financial responsibilities go for modern trades as they're quick turnover. It's always worth bearing in mind that qualified trades like plumbing and electrics will always have more work and can charge more - thus making the trade more viable. It can be really tough to get work when the economy shrinks or when people tighten their belts. It can be more viable to do a gypsum plastering job for £300 than to take on a similar wall in lime for three times the price.
@leeyo549419 күн бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign hi im just getting my first house and all 3 sides are pebbledash, im not sure if its on lime or cement, but id like to limewash it, please can you tell me what brand will give a creamy colour and not the brite white some do, im also happy to use quick lime and wash it hot, thanks
@samarshi5392 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to your video on comparing different free limes contents and comprehensive strengths.Thank you
@kuxkiri2 жыл бұрын
Yet again, a great video! Keep up the good work, despite how frustrating it can be!
@ylass8884 Жыл бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyed your passion for these heritage buildings and hydraulic lime.
@videogalore10 ай бұрын
It's a horrible position for a homeowner as they should be able to be naive about this, they shouldn't have to become a specialist in order to ask someone to repair their house. The equivalent would be asking someone to have read a repair manual cover to cover when taking their car into a garage before getting work done. Keep doing what you're doing and we'll turn the corner again and lose the cowboys!
@videogalore5 ай бұрын
@@86379A Oh, I know a lot of people who are excellent at their craft, but certainly a lack of pride in ones work is a big step backwards in our society. The 'good enough' brigade have made genuine skilled labour look ridiculously expensive, when in reality it's what it takes to do the job right in the first place.
@VanyaYani4 ай бұрын
Houses should not be repairable. Buldozer it over and build up high-rise flats, multiplying the value.
@arganddiagram Жыл бұрын
I just bought a cottage on west coast of scotland and the surveyor report came back with concrete floors, damp proofing, etc, even when I specifically asked for recommendations around damp including removing cement mortar and replacing with lime. Can't agree more with your rant :)
@michaeljamesdesign Жыл бұрын
Amazing isn't it. Makes you wonder what they study at college.
@sleepingdragon9326 күн бұрын
Thankyou! I've been saying this for years. Well said sir Bloody damp proofing is a needless sneaky trade!
@michaeljamesdesign25 күн бұрын
It is, it really is. When you think about it, flour mills were situated right next to the water which drove the wheel which powered the millstone. Never ever was anything tanked or waterproofed. Flour needs a dry environment to get milled and stored. If it ever got wet then people had no bread and starved. But those old mills and mill barns were as dry as the Sahara in mid-summer.
@dismaldog2 жыл бұрын
I envy you,you have such lovely buildings to work on.I am in Australia and we just do not have the history that you have there,having said that we still have lime mortar buildings which sadly through ignorance and lack of knowledge is nearly always repaired with cement mortars and indeed when i advised a guy to get his pointing done on chimneys with lime not a single person would do it and said what a load of rubbish so what do ya do?-i am a plasterer and yes in past learnt everything cement in the 80's so now building are starting to show the effects with spallling etc.At 57yrs old i really have a passion to get into this area of work and really make a difference in older properties,but sadly most people just want quick,cheap remedies and just love to paint exteriors with "plastic paints to stop the damp-go figure!!!!
@yasminfinlay80182 жыл бұрын
You are so right! I am at present trying to repair a miners' cottage that was built around 1890 and I am having no end of trouble finding someone who knows anything about the importance of using lime in the areas where there is brick around the house. I have had to do heaps of research in case I have to end up doing it myself.
@olliereed42064 ай бұрын
My brother is a heritage plasterer. He makes a fortune putting period properties back together after they have been damproofed
@markcrick29 ай бұрын
Great advice, well done for sharing your warnings.
@andrewsett2 жыл бұрын
Hi Michael really appreciate your knowledge weve got a basement property in the east end that has been tanked all the way through weve stripped the tanking off in the basement we want to now manage the moisture so the space is habitable were fully prepared for the moisture to come through the lim plaster what do you suggest we do after that
@michaeljamesdesign2 жыл бұрын
There are many things you're not telling me here so we'd have to go through a list of questions. And youtube isn't really the platform for this type of query. Ideally it would be your contractor who would be the person to speak to. If you're doing it yourself then your supplier should be able to assist with technical enquiries. On this occasion, it's not me.
@Southpoint20192 жыл бұрын
Good genuine knowledge Michael 👍🏻
@ianm42 жыл бұрын
Impressed by your work. What mortar mix did you use for the chimney breast?
@michaeljamesdesign2 жыл бұрын
Just sharp and putty.
@jackshark2570 Жыл бұрын
Hi - what technique would you use, for internal lime rendering, where the outside ground level is 2' + above the internal floor height, in terms of damp control ? Many thanks.
@michaeljamesdesign Жыл бұрын
As far as techique is concerned, most plasters simply use a trowel and hawk to apply the plaster but you could harl it on if you like. Depending on the circumstances you could throw on a pricking out coat first.
@jamesfuller20111 күн бұрын
As I thought, the last owner of our 1828 cottage has ruined the gable end which is causing damp. We have signs of injected damp proof course, cement render on the outside, all the way up and normal plaster on this inside. Difficult to know where to start with it. It’s so bad I fear the gable end will fall down if I attempt to remove it. Another issue is knowing who the hell you can trust, not good! We are getting damp coming through the plaster and it’s generating mould too :-(
@michaeljamesdesign11 күн бұрын
I tend to do plaster first when there's mould. It seems to help the exterior masonry dry out and stay more healthy. Try and get someone who will include Perlite in their mortar as this'll help keep everything warmer. I usually substitute one gauge of sand for Perlite nowadays.
@Bobbisox-wo7zu7 күн бұрын
Ive just bought a stone cottage in North Somerset. My, old school, surveyor recommended removal of exterior cement rendering and interior vinyl wall papers to let the walls breath.... Ive been looking into lime lite and would grateful for your opinion on it... Hope you had a nice holiday.
@michaeljamesdesign7 күн бұрын
Don't go anywhere near it as it has zero conservation credentials. It's just a scam. If you want a recommendation then just get some NHL2 and mix it with three sand. It'll be better.
@edi86562 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting, I have found nhl 3.5 sets hard very quickly even at 1:3 lime/sand and gets very hard over time even when compared to the old school weak sand cement and (hydrated) lime mixes for heritage builds that was seen as best practice 20 odd years ago
@michaeljamesdesign Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment. It's very important that the message concerning NHL is proliferated. Although a good product and suitable for many situations, many 3.5s can get bullet hard and aren't necessarily appropriate in all cases for repointing stone and antique brick.
@Mattlawton-ft6ew8 ай бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesignI have been telling people this for years I love your house and its brilliant that you are putting the lime back absolutely love it 👍
@dugbert98 ай бұрын
did my victorian red brick garden wall with 3.5 a couple of years ago. I hope I did the right thing. 2 seemed to be too weak. What do you think? @@michaeljamesdesign
@michaeljamesdesign8 ай бұрын
@@dugbert9 All NHL mortars are subject to ongoing strength gains. It depends, in part, on which brand you chose, what ratio of lime to sand you put together, how much sharp vs. fine in your mix etc etc etc.
@FiscalWoofer6 ай бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesignso the nhl 3.5 is going to get hard but it still breathes, problem is it won’t allow much movement with building so unless the stones are well pinned cracks are likely to emerge potentially letting in other stuff.
@DTGuitarTech5 ай бұрын
Loved your rant! I’m about to point up some walls on my Edwardian property with an NHL 3.5 mortar mix. Your rant was very helpful. Checked the data sheet for the product after your video. Doesn’t state free lime content, but does state a capillary rise of moderate (76-100mm in 6 hours). I’m am not a trades person pretty confident with what I have seen in the data sheet. Your video was so helpful, so thank you. Unfortunately I have to do this myself as there are zero competent builders in my area who will do lime pointing.
@michaeljamesdesign5 ай бұрын
The supplier should know. If not then speak to the manufacturer.
@DTGuitarTech5 ай бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign I’ll ask them 👍
@DTGuitarTech5 ай бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign Asked the supplier. They’ve said “we’ll get back to you as soon as we can”. 🤣 I wonder if they will 🤔
@DTGuitarTech5 ай бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign They just replied. With “Between 25-40% depending on product.” 🤣🤣🤣 I think they may be guessing.
@michaeljamesdesign5 ай бұрын
@@DTGuitarTech In which case it'll be around 25%. A feeby hydraulic lime will be around 40%. But there's no way for these lime companies to be that accurate as far as lime content is concerned. Secil just bulk out with chalk as this satisfies EU criteria for lime. But actual free lime might only be around 5%. This is why it's worth staying away from Secil and other cheap brands. I always add in lime hydrate to my NHL 3.5 to increase free lime content.
@dip9037 Жыл бұрын
Hi from Greece. Great work you do. What’s your opinion about ready made mortars for plastering? They say that they have ingredients inside that fight damp etc, despite they have cement elements.
@michaeljamesdesign Жыл бұрын
You have answered your own question sir.
@dip9037 Жыл бұрын
I’m not sure i understood
@michaeljamesdesign Жыл бұрын
@@dip9037 I don't use them.
@StuartChignell3 ай бұрын
In Australia we don't really have much choice. Its hydraulic lime or nothing.
@wildgoose826679 ай бұрын
Hi I hope you don't mind my question. I'm in the States and I was searching KZbin for some ideas. I live in an old house in New England built around 1800. The foundation is stacked stone - no mortar. Dampness seeps in. I've addressed water run off the best I can with new gutters and drainage. We also have a damp basement racket here. But their recommendations don't make sense to me. I want to keep water from coming in our basement, but it doesn't make sense to me to use hydraulic cement to do it. It seems to me that I would want the wall to breathe to dry out any moisture that happens to get in. Would using lime plaster as a mortar be a good idea or bad? Thanks in advance
@michaeljamesdesign9 ай бұрын
yes get some nhl
@wildgoose826679 ай бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign I am not familiar with that. Is it a particular type or brand of lime plaster? Thanks for the reply
@michaeljamesdesign9 ай бұрын
@@wildgoose82667 Natural Hydraulic Lime.
@jimmyggreg899920 күн бұрын
Hey mate, greetings from australia! Do you use similar ratios of lime and sand on granite, bluestone etc as limestone? Cheers!
@michaeljamesdesign20 күн бұрын
Not similar. Identical.
@davidcoldicott84242 жыл бұрын
Couldn’t agree more!
@kookia2139 ай бұрын
I am happy I met your video and right before starting the process of buying and replacing the current cement render with lime one. I am from Portugal, and god bless for you made that remark because I'm not sure what to look for in here. Also, noticed that you only removed about 1-1.5 meter from the bottom to re-do with lime. I was thinking doing from bottom to ceiling but now I am starting to think if do i need to? or just from bottom to 1.5 meters?. I also wanted to do render on the second floor, from lime. My problem at the moment is that I can only do so from the inside. At the moment I can not remove the cement render from the outside of the house. I can try, maybe, on the external part to remove about 1.5 meters from the floor and replace with lime, but can not do the entire wall (which again, goes until the second floor). Would be happy to get your thoughts, and if I can contact you for further consultation, would be great. Thank you again.
@zaxmaxlax9 ай бұрын
em portugal é impossivel achar cal hidraulico natural(NHL3,5) só acha o HL5 que é misturado com cimento e é muito duro pra esse tipo de trabalho. O negócio é fazer com cal hidratada e achar a proporçao certa.
@sleepingdragon9326 күн бұрын
@@zaxmaxlaxsee if you can find non-hydraulic lime in Portugal it is a wet putty (different to NHL aka natural hydraulic lime) The trick is in the proper name Hydraulic means it begins to harden and cure in the presence of moisture in many cases making it to hard for stone/cob buildings. Non-hydraulic means it doesn't set when in the presence of moisture, instead it sets by absorbing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it has a higher free lime content and takes longer to fully cure.... But it's very vapour permeable, it's softer on masonry so it won't damage the stone and also has a certain amount of flexibility meaning it works with natural thermal expansion It's also self healing for small cracks, as once it's cured if it shrinks a little. but rain water will hit the surface and carry small amounts of lime with it into the cracks and begin to form calcite crystals in the cracks (basically the same way stalagmites and stalactites are formed)
@evertonI878 Жыл бұрын
is st austier nhl 5 suitable for repointing and rendering a chimney stack? I have stripped the old cement render and looking to replace,
@michaeljamesdesign Жыл бұрын
I tend not to bother with NHL5 anymore. You certainly wouldn't want to render with it.
@jamesw34462 жыл бұрын
I managed to get a figure out of tarmac for the free lime content of NHL 3.5. The wording their labs carefully gave was that the Limelite NHL 3.5, as packed and shipped in standard form, has a free lime content equal to or greater than 25%. I suspect that that means it’s very close to 25% and not much greater. Hope this helps
@michaeljamesdesign2 жыл бұрын
Thanks James. I eventually got the same result after a good few emails but they won't give me any information concerning their compressive strength data. They tried to fob me off by telling me it was 3.5.
@jamesw34462 жыл бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign good to know they’re giving out/not giving out consistent information. I was expecting free lime content to be lower given their secrecy, not sure why it’s all so cloak and dagger especially if the product does turn out to be decent!
@michaeljamesdesign2 жыл бұрын
@@jamesw3446 You'd think they'd at least put it on their data sheet but they're similar to Hanson in that way the last time I looked.
@jamesw34462 жыл бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign I found Hanson quite helpful on the phone. Their lime comes from France, has 30% free lime content (average but no lower than 25%) and average compressive strength after 28 days is 0.69.
@michaeljamesdesign2 жыл бұрын
@@jamesw3446 Go James! Well done, thanks for sharing.
@johnfreshwater37907 ай бұрын
Excellent post I love watching Peter Ward at Heritage House moaning about the very same damp wallies. I live in a 220 year old stone house that unfortunately had been refurbished by village idiot builders who have pointed inside and out with cement. Fortunately I am a more than average diy er so have slowly removed it and repointed with lime and suprise suprise the house has dried out and no longer has a damp smell. I also fitted a cheap mvhr and against all the doom and groomers run the house heating with a ASHP which is brilliant. Love to see the old buildings put right although the adjoining house to us is just being refurbished by a local builder and when I asked him what he was doing with the signs of damp he said he would just plasterboard over it😮 there is no hope !
@michaeljamesdesign7 ай бұрын
Dotting and dabbing. Plaster board = cheap. It's never just the builder. The client also plays a part.
@finchy33946 ай бұрын
I point a lot but only with newer building. How do I get into the more heritage side of this work. I'm fascinated by it.
@michaeljamesdesign6 ай бұрын
I just put an advert in the Yellow Pages after doing a bit of cement work and the work came in. I take it you've got a decent website.
@finchy33946 ай бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign no I'm a caveman when it comes to the Internet and making websites. I have a page on Facebook.
@finchy33946 ай бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign I really want to work with a tradesman that works with lime.
@michaeljamesdesign6 ай бұрын
@@finchy3394 That won't serve you very well. It's a good start but you need a decent website and you need to SEO it as far up Google rankings as possible. The kind of clients you want won't be found on social media.
@jacobnadin85132 жыл бұрын
How you brush back your mortar is the best I've seen so far - any tips from beggar to beggar? The finishing is a very important part.
@jacobnadin85132 жыл бұрын
Laird to beggar rather.
@michaeljamesdesign2 жыл бұрын
To be honest you’ve just got to see what works best for you and your mortar. What’s most important is the time you take. Never rush, take time. Really slow it down. Do it at a snail’s pace if you have to as that’s the only way with lime.
@samcarter15419 ай бұрын
Your right surveyors haven't got a clue about lime,think u got there in time as most of the stone is still ok not started to spall
@JohnChappell-fh5sb3 ай бұрын
Its a real shame, lime is a wonderful material to use, very low wastage and it breathes, self heals, moves with the property.. I think its just the time required to lime plaster, and desire for a quick turnaround. Also I think some builders with good faith perhaps got into the damp proof game and invested into it. Thanks for the heads up on the lime qualities though. I used a 3.5 but I will look into this deeper
@toerag12427 күн бұрын
Your fab m8 ! But being that you are all that, let's hope you didn't tactlessly upset the Ol Gent who'd spent out of his brood's increasingly diminished Aenglander coffer ? Other than that, keep up the good work & we'll be in touch...
@Joe-jv5mm7 ай бұрын
Love your Rant, Damp Gangster are @ it Again
@RAINE____10 ай бұрын
"If I was making sea defences I'd use NHL5" 😅 I came to learn about lime but stayed for the entertainment.
@towerdave48366 ай бұрын
I'm in the middle of a disaster repointing my 17th century house stone wall and chimney with hot lime. Rainwater is leeching through the chimney walls and soaking the roof purlin ends which then wicks all the way to the main truss. It's putting me off the use of hot lime and back to NHL based mortars that I've used in the past with no problem at all😢
@michaeljamesdesign6 ай бұрын
Happened to me once. I've never bothered with hotmixed mortar since on chimneys.
@terencequinn2682 Жыл бұрын
It’s brilliant that your doing this. Although I must say doing a small bit of wall with internal lime plaster - £92 - just for two bags of Duro base coat and two bags of Solo lime plaster! Why is Lime so dear ?
@michaeljamesdesign Жыл бұрын
Ah, your problems lies in the fact that you're using premixed products (with very low capillarity, I may add). You only need buy the lime and - depending on the which lime - just mix it 1:3 or 1:4.
@terencequinn2682 Жыл бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign - thanks, you are very kind ! I’ll investigate further.
@michaeljamesdesign Жыл бұрын
@@terencequinn2682 Lime plastering is actually using lime. You're using premixed products that aren't lime.
@terencequinn2682 Жыл бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign - well Michael … you go up to a place that calls itself “We Sell Lime” and you tell them you want to put on a lime plaster on an wall, and this is what they suggest. I didn’t exactly feel I was getting good information to be honest. I’ll need to look into it more. There is a lot of conflicting information out there for the amateur.
@michaeljamesdesign Жыл бұрын
@@terencequinn2682 They do some really nice high free lime content NHL3.5
@dogblessamerica Жыл бұрын
Lol I always wondered what those copper strips were for, I assumed it was something electrical to be honest!
@michaeljamesdesign Жыл бұрын
I think a lot of people do. I was reluctant to touch them until I figured it out.
@kevinallen9986 Жыл бұрын
Nice to see someone who cares
@billyaizlewood31576 күн бұрын
Great vid.
@patrickguyot1290Ай бұрын
Liked and suscribed,excellent video
@michaeljamesdesignАй бұрын
Thanks bruv.
@mrsc3120 Жыл бұрын
I passed a lovely little cottage in my village the other day. Scaffolding up and all the exterior walls were being re rendered with cement. The owner told me she was having to have them redone as she'd had so much damp. I could have cried, but what do I know.
@michaeljamesdesign Жыл бұрын
Find out if it's listed first then take it from there.
@GMTpointingspecialistsltd2 жыл бұрын
Just looked at a 150 year old property today it was damp injected twice it's a massive con
@michaeljamesdesign2 жыл бұрын
Where there's ignorance there's brass.
@GMTpointingspecialistsltd2 жыл бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign or an old lady they scammed twice on this occasion
@michaeljamesdesign2 жыл бұрын
@@GMTpointingspecialistsltd Bastards.
@HSilver3412 жыл бұрын
What a load of tosh the damp game is
@roymichaeldeanable9 ай бұрын
Had a Builder knock on my door last week saying I have slipped tiles and a hole on the rear side of the roof No one has access to the rear of the house Lived here 28 years and if I had a quid for every lying bar steward who says they are a Builder who has knocked on my door I would be a rich man I put Builders below MPs, second hand car salesmen...as far as liars go
@thomaselston468011 ай бұрын
cement cheaper than lime mortar Lyme Motors quite hard to get old of depending where you are in the country
@jamescardoness3037 Жыл бұрын
Yep! this Surveyor ignorance regarding period buildings doesn't surprise me. Involved in construction for almost 40 years some 25 years as a surveyor ( incl. historic buildings) and an ex member of the old boys club. The RICS today covers a range of activities. Many RICS members have never been on a construction site or involved in construction but they all call themselves Chartered Surveyors. In my recent experience fewer and fewer of their members have any building knowledge having worked and trained in Property Management, lettings, estate agency ,facilities management or Project Management or simply gained a higher degree to become Chartered. Many members are QS's who in the main have some general but not specific technical construction knowledge as they have probably completed a QS degree at college but in fairness they at least have probably been on a building site. When it comes to stone construction you may be hard pushed to find a Chartered Surveyor with the requisite skills and experience. As a venerable judge pointed out in a recent case involving an RICS Chartered surveyor using the " I followed our current guidelines" defence but still creating a botch up, the Judge concluded " it seems the RICS exists to protect Surveyors not the public" . I now unkindly refer to the RICS as the Royal Institute of Chartered Shopkeepers ! well ! most of them work for Estate Agents !! and I do on occasion see some of the appalling house purchase survey reports their members churn out ! Using the wrong lime mortar on stonework can be as detrimental as using opc. !
@michaeljamesdesign Жыл бұрын
Thanks you James. Pleased you stopped by for a rant. May the lime be with you.
@Hew.Jarsol7 ай бұрын
Yes leaking drains
@piospisspot8 ай бұрын
The more research I do on KZbin the more confused I am. So much contradictory content. I have a cement plinth on the sides of my cottage unfortunately. I hope lime is the solution but didn't realise how many different varieties there are. Help!
@michaeljamesdesign8 ай бұрын
I usually use NHL3.5 for plinth work as they're usually in place because the property is by the roadside or the rain water from thatch roofes splashes up from the ground. Other than that there's no need for plinths. But you can use any lime mortar.
@strikemehandsome2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately because mortgage companies insist on damp proof courses it will never end.
@michaeljamesdesign2 жыл бұрын
I know they used to but I thought all that had changed.
@strikemehandsome2 жыл бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign no still an insistence for a mortgage if a surveyor flags up rising damp. Peter Ward did so much work with the chair of the RICS but it was all a waste of time. RICS say rising damp on the survey and you need to get a member of the PCA. If people know about heritage House they can opt to go with them or opt not to get a rics survey but if they do and they say damp then mortgage companies want the damp man in. I was talking to Pete Ward a few days ago. He told me the PCA got him chucked off twitter for his constant abuse which made me laugh.
@michaeljamesdesign2 жыл бұрын
@@strikemehandsome Thanks Steve. It's a shame we're all working so hard to promote the use of sympathetic materials which work with the property but find ourselves up against the surveying industry which encourages cowboy workmanship. We have architects who specify tanking, surveyors who recommend damp proofing, tradesmen who don't know or care whether they're doing the right thing and financial institutions who have no idea. All this combined with manufacturers and suppliers of so called ecologically friendly products which eventually do more harm than good. No wonder the built environment has suffered so much. As you said the other day, politics and money. Keep on with the hemp mate. Once people realise just how environmentally friendly it is they'll start going over to it. I've put something on my website about its benefits so here's hoping the tide will slowly begin to turn.
@samarshi5392 жыл бұрын
@@strikemehandsome excuse my ignorance . What is PCA?
@strikemehandsome2 жыл бұрын
@@samarshi539 property care association. They teach and govern the chemical damp industry.
@DanielOlivierArgyle Жыл бұрын
What caused the damp issue in this property, to the point where they likely paid people thousands to fix it? Lime breathes really well, so why wasn't it wicking the moisture out?
@michaeljamesdesign Жыл бұрын
It wasn't lime, it was cement render and gypsum plaster.
@DanielOlivierArgyle Жыл бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign sorry I wasn't clear. At the beginning of the video you're talking about lime mortar. It's also the title of the video. What I'm asking is, what caused the damp issue in the property where lime was already used, but they still felt it necessary to spend money on cowboy damp fixes
@michaeljamesdesign Жыл бұрын
@@DanielOlivierArgyle You're still not being clear. Do you mean the original lime plaster? If so lime plaster will eventually fail with age. Particularly if it's painted with non-breathable paints and the outside of the wall is pointed with cement mortar. That leads to damp which leads to replastering with the wrong stuff which leads to more damp. There's also the issue of poor ventilation in older houses. These get sealed up when fireplaces are closed off, double glazing is fitted and air-bricks are removed from bedrooms. One of the reasons this place got damp was because successive previous owers did not lime wash the outside. In fact, none of the cottages got lime washed and they all suffered with damp.
@DanielOlivierArgyle Жыл бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign Thanks for your patience. Not talking at all about the plaster at all. On the outside of the building at the beginning, you show how chemical damp proofing has been used. I'm hust interested to know what cause of the damp was. Was the property at the bottom of a hill? Was it near a flooded river? Burst drain? Etc. Thanks!
@DanielOlivierArgyle Жыл бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign Thank you!
@andyobrien56962 жыл бұрын
Have they become their subject 😆
@thomaselston468011 ай бұрын
you can't just go to any builders merchants for it every builder yard in Europe you can buy it that's all they use their cement is for concrete
@andymagee66872 жыл бұрын
Was that Mr porter by any chance the one that tells you NHL 3.5 isn't any good for outside And does everything by weight He hasn't a clue about lime lol Keep up the good work hot lime all the way for me
@michaeljamesdesign2 жыл бұрын
Bless him. He means well.
@andyobrien56962 жыл бұрын
NHL 5 and granite, as MJD states, he meant well. But that is some hard gear for a house.
@michaeljamesdesign2 жыл бұрын
@@andyobrien5696 Seriously hard. No need. Mind you, I knew a builder who added cement to NHL5 because he didn't trust the strength. Says it all really.
@andyobrien56962 жыл бұрын
@@michaeljamesdesign yes it does. NHL5 with granite would be great for canal banking re-pointing 🙂
@michaeljamesdesign2 жыл бұрын
@@andyobrien5696 I accidentally added way too much GGBFS to some hot lime last year. It turned it too rock. Personally I'd be tempted to use that.
@andrewatkinson55709 ай бұрын
Wouldn’t you start at the top and work down ?
@michaeljamesdesign9 ай бұрын
There's no top work to be done.
@FiscalWoofer6 ай бұрын
It’s just as bad as ever :(. Damp wallies.
@valerielambert79226 ай бұрын
They're not even good at unblocking the drains.
@roymichaeldeanable2 жыл бұрын
All these new builds have an inner of blocks and outer of bricks with the centre filled with Insulation Absolute madness...but I am the only one thinks so
@roymichaeldeanable9 ай бұрын
99% of people know zilch about everything No matter the age they are clueless And are upset when you tell them they're a doorkn
@michaeljamesdesign9 ай бұрын
Most people are bullshitters, if the truth be known.