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Rising damp or penetrating damp: how to tell them apart

26.10.202625.10.2026 by jorj01
Rising damp compared with penetrating damp and driving rain: three wall elevations showing where each one puts the moisture

Rising damp, penetrating damp and driving rain look alike on a wall. The order a surveyor works in, and the numbers that decide.

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