Basement leasehold flat

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Lease says you must have carpets in hall and lounge and walls to be painted every 4 years

All leases say you have to repaint, nobody pays attention. Carpets in flats are to stop sound carrying downstairs. I assume they cannot be bothered to change the standard wording for a basement flat because it takes effort. What’s the problem?

Thanks How to check for damp Will it have a dpc automatically

Depends on the age of the building and the quality of the build. Some Early Victorian/Georgian houses were shockingly cheaply built on spec, I lived in one that did not have a damp proof course and the back wall was basically made of building waste cemented together. More modern builds will have a DPC as standard because of building regs.

Built 1900

Get a proper survey done on it

Then possibly no dpc, you would need to ask the surveyor to specifically look if you cannot see evidence of one yourself.

Our house is older and has a DPC in the basement.