| Thu Dec 29, 2011 | Total posts : 1 |
|  Topic: I am planning to fix sunshade at my home to stop dampness. The problem is the su
I am planning to fix sunshade at my home to stop dampness. The problem is the sunshade is steep towards the wall, instead of being steep at the end[the end of the sunshade will look like --|. During rain water starts to get collected at the wall leading to dampness inside home…Could you please suggest a way to fix this issue. The building is 46 years old. |
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| Fri Dec 30, 2011 | Post #1 | S L Gupta (Civil Engg)
Join date: Mar 2008 | Dear Rajesh
In my view, you should lay the sun shade level not steep to-wards wall and make slope no both sides and also made thin cement concrete gola with the wall at the joint of wall & sunshade. About damp-proofing you take help from dampness sub-section in safty in ccnstruction section of website gharexper.com. link given below.
http://www.gharexpert.com/articles/Dampness-1386/Protect-your-home-from-Dampness_0.aspx | | |
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