The consequences of dampness (moisture) in masonry (brickwork): the building and the health of the occupants can be destroyed.

If moisture is ascending the masonry and taking possession of the walls increasingly, not only can this destroy the building's substance, but also yours and your fellow occupant's substance.



Damp walls change the energy balance and the room climate dramatically.

One cubic metre brick can store up to 300 liter of water. Because of this damp walls are filled up with several tons of water. Besides the ascendin- basic moisture is drawing salt out of the ground which deposite at the walls. Salt is hygro-copic: it draws an additional amount of water out of the circulating air in the room into the walls.

To heat such a house is alike the try of warming yourself up in a wet sleeping bag: The damp walls are storing no warmth anymore. High heating costs are the result. And even with a big effort of heating no comfortable living atmosphere can be achieved.

The masonry will be destroyed.

The with the water ascending salts and minerals own an explosive power up to two tons per one cubic centimetre brickwork. If the ascending water is evaprating, the salt inside the brickwork is crystallizing. This process leads slowly to the destruction of the brickwork.

If you try to stop the ascending moisture with horizontal sealing there is the danger of salt crystallizing out underneath those barriers. Their enormous explosive power will often lead then to static devastation of the foundations.

Health damages because of damp housing accommodations and workrooms.

At damp walls harmful cultures of fungus and mould are based, also bacteriums and other parasites. People staying a longer time in such rooms have to deal with health problems, as for example problems with the respiration tract.

Not only the moist walls are victims of such parasites. They also develop well and multiply in rooms with high humidity you can find typically in buildings with damp brickwork.

Parasites feed themselves with organic substances they can find everywhere in the house. If they die their organic leftovers are again food for house mites. Dangerous for humans is the eliminated faeces of the mites if flinged through the air while vacuum cleaning and ventilating and getting into the respiratory tracts.

Conventional problems.

If you use conventional methods for keeping the building dry you usually have to calculate with an enormous effort, high consumption, faulty effect and undesirable side effects.