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I was reading about UK housing and had to look up "rising damp." We don't have that here, or at least not to the level we need a word for it.
by 0_____0 8mo ago
I was reading about UK housing and had to look up "rising damp." We don't have that here, or at least not to the level we need a word for it.
- Smaug123 8mo agoThe UK climate never really stops being moist, and our houses are routinely at least a hundred years old and made of brick, built before we knew how to deal with damp and built without AC. If we rebuilt everything we'd fix it, but we can't.
- HPsquared 8mo agoThat just means they've had 100 years to fix it.
- 0_____0 8mo agonew england is also pretty wet but because it freezes, we have basements (not sure about UK), so the stonework is below the habitable levels. i get what you mean about not being able to fix it. from what it sounds like, the UK is leading the US by about 10-20 years in terms of "energy leaving the system."
- tetris11 8mo agoDPC is pretty routine these days, and a lot of old houses get the treatment before they're flipped (as is the custom of our times)