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Damp Proofing Villajoyosa
Damp proofing for Villajoyosa — the painted houses on the shoreline, town houses inland and the newer coastal apartments.
Villajoyosa has one of the most distinctive old towns on this coast, and one of the most exposed. The painted houses stand almost directly on the shoreline.
That produces a particular kind of damp work. Thick old walls, no damp proof course, sea air carrying salt, and weather coming straight off the water onto elevations with nothing in front of them.
Behind the front, the old town runs back in narrow terraced streets, and newer apartment development spreads along the coast either side.
The old town
Salt, Old Walls and Blown Plaster
Salt is the thing that makes coastal damp work different. Where moisture has been moving through a wall over a long period it carries dissolved salts with it, and those salts crystallise at the surface as the water evaporates.
What you see is white deposits on the face of the wall, paint lifting away in sheets, and plaster that has gone soft and crumbly and simply falls off. Because some of those salts are hygroscopic — they draw moisture out of the air — a contaminated wall can stay damp even after the original source has been dealt with.
Which is why the contaminated plaster normally has to come off rather than be painted over, and why the replacement matters. Putting the same finish straight back on a salt-laden wall usually produces the same result again.
Exposure
Weather Straight Off the Sea
An elevation facing the water takes wind-driven rain with nothing to slow it down. Render cracks under that and under the sun the rest of the year, and once it has cracked, water goes into the structure behind it.
The giveaway for penetrating damp is that the patch gets noticeably worse after heavy rain and dries back between. If that is the pattern, the problem is outside, not underneath.
We repair damaged exterior surfaces and apply protective coatings and rendering as part of the damp-proofing work rather than as a separate cosmetic job.
Newer property
Apartments Along the Coast
The modern blocks either side of the town bring the coastal apartment problems: terraces leaking into the flat below, sealant around sliding doors that has hardened and let go, and condensation in properties that stand empty for parts of the year.
All three get reported as damp. Only one of them is water coming through the building.
How it works
How a Damp Survey in Villajoyosa Works
On the seafront houses the survey pays particular attention to what is already in the wall. Where salts have built up over decades, the wall can read as wet long after the source is dealt with, and that changes what goes back on it.
From there we say what we think is causing it and recommend something proportionate — occasionally a smaller job than expected. Diagnosis → Treatment → Repair → Finishing, with the replastering and decorating afterwards part of the same job. The survey and the quotation cost you nothing, and the work is guaranteed.
Questions
Damp Proofing Villajoyosa — Common Questions
Our Villajoyosa wall has white powder on it and the plaster keeps falling off. What is that?
That is characteristic of salt contamination. Moisture moving through a wall carries dissolved salts to the surface, where they crystallise and break up the plaster and paint. Because some of those salts draw moisture from the air, the wall can stay damp even after the original source is dealt with, so the contaminated plaster usually has to be removed.
Can you treat damp in an old house right on the seafront?
Yes. Exposure and salt are the two additional factors, and they affect both the treatment and what goes back on the wall afterwards. The wall is assessed on how it was actually built.
The damp only appears after heavy rain. Does that tell you anything?
A great deal. Damp that worsens after rain and dries back between is penetrating damp - water coming in from outside - rather than rising damp. It points the survey at the render, roof, terraces and sealed joints rather than at the ground.
Across the area
Damp Proofing in the Surrounding Towns
Villajoyosa is one of nine towns with its own damp proofing page. The main Damp Proofing Costa Blanca page covers every treatment in full.
Damp Proofing Calpe
Damp surveys, waterproofing and remedial building work in Calpe and the surrounding area.
View Calpe →Damp Proofing Altea
Damp surveys, waterproofing and remedial building work in Altea and the surrounding area.
View Altea →Damp Proofing Benidorm
Damp surveys, waterproofing and remedial building work in Benidorm and the surrounding area.
View Benidorm →Damp Proofing La Nucía
Damp surveys, waterproofing and remedial building work in La Nucía and the surrounding area.
View La Nucía →Damp Proofing Finestrat
Damp surveys, waterproofing and remedial building work in Finestrat and the surrounding area.
View Finestrat →Damp Proofing Alfaz del Pi & Albir
Damp surveys, waterproofing and remedial building work in Alfaz del Pi & Albir and the surrounding area.
View Alfaz del Pi & Albir →Damp Proofing Polop
Damp surveys, waterproofing and remedial building work in Polop and the surrounding area.
View Polop →Damp Proofing Callosa d'en Sarrià
Damp surveys, waterproofing and remedial building work in Callosa d'en Sarrià and the surrounding area.
View Callosa d'en Sarrià →Get in touch
Damp, Mould or Water Coming In — in Villajoyosa?
If you have damp, black mould, peeling paint, blown plaster or a musty smell that keeps coming back in a Villajoyosa property, we will come and look at it and tell you what we think is causing it.
Villa, finca, town house, apartment or underbuild.
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