Basement advice

[golf-sib]

Basically my sisters bought a Victorian house, it has s basement. The walls are bare brick.

Being my sister who has done me alot of favors over the years, I said I would sort out her basement once she gets the keys, the idea is to:

Fit extraction, get a ring in, fit a ceiling light which I can easily do. the basement already has a window and insulation laid on the floor which looks like kingspan. My concern are the walls and damp, what would be the best way to render them?

One friend bought a special render with a 10/15 year guarantee for basements, looks like regular outdoor render or at least very similar, another friend said get sa PVC or DPM membrane fixed on with mesh and then just use normal thistle plaster. What do you guys suggest? There doesn't seem to be any damp on the walls and the house had been vacant for 6months, I went to view it when it was snowing and raining a week ago.

The basement is at the front of the property so it exits to the street as I imagine its an old coal chute going by Victorians. So you have paving reducing water penetration to a degree.


Any thoughts and ideas appreciated.

[stfc_gti]

soundproofing so no one can hear the screams
heavy duty padlock on the door
shackles bolted to the walls

you get the idea. 

[Toby]

Tank it, Barton the walls, the plasterboard to let it breath then plaster & paint! Jobs a gooden

[Len]

Depends what she wants to use the room for.
Habitable or just storage or whatever

If storage I wouldnt do anything to the walls

If she wants to have heat down there and use it as say a spare bedroom or something then yes tank it.
This would be something like a product called Bituthene and then timber battons and plasterboard etc.

[golf-sib]

The purpose of the room will be office

[danny_p]

depends how much water is about,   

you ether tank the whole room.   involves cleaning the walls and floor right up, paintign them with a latex based glue and cement mix several times. then renderign the walls but useing latex glue mix instaed of straight water in the mix then renderign as normal.  then you can plaster.

the room is now a TANK and will be dry if done properly but you can never nail anythign to the wall ever again.

the other option is to cover the walls in membrane and stud and board dinfrount of said membrane much easyer done but you'll need a drain for anywater that gets in tho

[Sam]

I would just PVA the walls, stick up polythene, rot lat over and then board and plaster like normal. Done it loads of times on loads of different buildings and never heard any complaints.

[dragonfly]

Speak to Josef Fritzl.

[danny_p]

misread your original post  i thought it was damp for ome reason.


add some waterproofer to render and plaster job done if its dry and has no history of flooding