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Book Archived
Ground floors - replacing suspended timber with solid concrete - dpcs and dpms
Publisher
BRE Archive
Author
BRE Housing Defects Prevention Unit
Format
2 pages
Subject / Keyword
Defect Action Sheet 22, DAS22, concrete floors, rising damp, dpc, dpm.
Published Date
01-Feb-1985
ISBN
Defect Action Sheet 22 (Design)
THIS PUBLICATION HAS BEEN ARCHIVED.
Whilst this publication can still be purchased some of the information in it has been superseded by more recent research and standards. The BRE Group does not accept any responsibility whatsoever for any loss or damage, including - without limitation - indirect or consequential loss or damage arising from use, or loss of use, of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this document.
Failure: rising damp
Defect: original wall damp-proof course bridged by new floor construction
Replacing a suspended timber floor with a solid concrete floor - preventing the original damp-proof course being bridged by the new construction - avoiding rising damp - installing a new dpc at the same level as the new dpm or linking the original dpc to the dpm in the slab.
Originally published March 1983; republished with minor revisions February 1985.
Book Archived
Ground floors - replacing suspended timber with solid concrete - dpcs and dpms
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