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"Inability to diagnose" - a disappointment and concern
Condensation is without doubt the most common form of unwanted dampness in residential properties in the UK yet sadly many specialist ‘damp’ surveyors and structural surveyors do not know the procedure or type of readings necessary in order to ascertain whether or not condensation is occurring on a wall’s surface at a given moment in time. Some are fixated on relative humidity levels but as illustrated elsewhere in this section relative humidity readings on their own are meaningless.This is a constant source of amazement and one must ask how do they definitively differentiate between condensation and rising damp when conducting a damp survey during the winter months? This may also account for some of the misdiagnosis that happens. It has been suggested by some that specialist damp surveyors do not care too much about condensation as there is little money to be made curing it whereas there is money to be made curing rising damp.
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