Damp in bathroom

[PurpleCatCuddles]

So we're in the middle of buying our first home and there's damp in the bathroom. Everything will need taken out, according to the survey.

I'm a bit lost on who exactly we'll need to sort this. I have identified:

• a plumber to take everything out and put it back again
• a damp person to sort the damp (they did a survey and we have a quote - quote included insulation)
• a plasterer (?) to sort the walls afterwards

Have we missed anything? Help!

What type of survey have you had and what exactly did the survey say? What type of damp had been identified and has any indication been given about the cause of it? The damp industry is SUPER scammy, so before doing anything, it's important that you understand what the issue is so that you're not taken advantage of and end up spending thousands of £££ unnecessarily.

What is causing the damp? If there’s only damp to the bathroom I would be highly suspicious that said damp is in fact more likely to do with old or leaky plumbing rather than actual damp issues. We have what appears to be “damp” in our living room- it is in fact the remnants of a very slow leak from the old bathroom above. However I suspect that if anyone ever had it surveyed they’d tell you it had damp and needed all sorts of corrective action. When in actual fact all it needed was the leak above sorting (done) and re-painting below (one day 😂). The damp industry is absolutely full of hundreds of companies who will happily tell you everything from your left big toe to the entire street is infested with damp and you absolutely need to be paying £££££££££ to fix it with all sorts of chemicals and treatments before the world ends. In my experience most damp has an underlying cause (leaky plumbing, cracked shower tray, poor pointing externally, blocked drainpipe outside etc etc etc) that is usually a relatively easy- if sometimes annoy to locate- fix, rather than just simply being a thing that happens.