PART OF VELOCITY ARCHITECTURAL ATELIER

Damp in the basement: time to drain?

Salt blooms, cold draughts and odour — what the symptoms mean and what drainage actually involves.

Basement walls below ground are constantly exposed to soil moisture. When the drainage works the water is led away; when it does not, damp migrates into the structure.

Review the downpipes at the same time. A downpipe discharging next to the foundation can load the drainage more than all the ground water combined.