Great house but damp in floor?

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Seen what could be the ideal house for us today, it’s a 1970s brick end of terrace, probably ex council, so it’s not gorgeous but it’s the right size and in the right place and we’re excited.

BUT previous buyers asked for a massive price drop after their survey found damp in the kitchen floor. Vendor has put it back on the market instead.

It looks like vinyl tiles on concrete possibly. have a pic if helpful.

Wokld you buy a house with this issue? How would it get fixed and what kind of cost would we be looking at? It needs a new kitchen as well and I don’t know how much those cost either.Any advice welcome, I need to decide whether to offer tonight.

Honestly there's no definitive answer unless you know what's causing the damp. The only way to find that out is to get a specialist to have a look.

I don't know if you can put in an offer but state you'll want to have a surveyor carry out a damp survey as a condition of proceeding.

A quick google says tanking the floor and sealing it could cost up to £200 per square meter.

Thanks @Tootsiroll it’s so hard to know isn’t it. I guess the thing to do is put in an offer and then send an expert round to look at it and cost it up?

just feeling baffled at the idea that it can range from “blow some warm air at it” to “dig the whole thing up”

Without knowing what is causing the damp it is hard to know. In that age of house with a solid floor it could be a leaking pipe which could be expensive or a failed damp proof course, also expensive. Either way you will probably have tk dig the floor up to find out where the leak is. Is it just in one room?

We have bought a house and then found rising damp. We had a specialist survey,
back to brick 1/3 of walls , new damp course injected and replastering, all flooring removed back to the concrete, new asphalt laid down (instead of floor boards). This is in 2 reception rooms and hallway downstairs. The kitchen was fine. In total it cost 9k. It wasn't picked up on the survey done for buying the property but there were signs issues chim breast and on some skirting boards.