Selling house - damp flagged

[JamAndJuice]

Grateful for thoughts...we are selling a small 1920s mid-terrace cottage that has been rented out for 10 years. It's all freshened up and ready to go and as we're in Scotland we've had a single survey done which noted damp readings in the kitchen (more recent extension). The estate agent advised we get an damp investigation and cost for repair to add to the house survey. This has come back with rising damp and recommended removing some plaster and installing a damp proof course at cost of £3k (not inc decoration etc.) This is just in the kitchen which needs a facelift anyway. DP thinks we should do the work ourselves and then sell but I really don't want to as we are separating and this is dragging on endlessly as it is. Plus he would take forever to do it. How much would this put you off buyiing? I'm thinking we get it on the market anyway and if no interest then look at doing the work?

It will depend if the buyers are willing to go for a bit of redecorating. If you think the kitchen needs redone anyway, I would be upfront about it and reflect this on the price. It wouldn’t put me off buying if fairly priced and sellers are honest about it.

Rising damp is very rare and damp proof courses are known to be a waste of money in older buildings. I've mentioned this before, but there is a brilliant Facebook group called something like Your Old House UK - Repair and Conservation which has loads of experts on old buildings and especially damp.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/youroldhouseuk/?ref=share

Search for 'rising damp' on the group page and there are loads of posts about it and what to do and not do. Good luck!