Besides the damages to personal health that rising damp can cause, it is also extremely damaging to the properties structure. Many damp conditions affect the timbers, which in older properties can form up to 75% of the structure, an integral part of the building.
While minor mould patches or a little moisture in the home might not seem like a big issue, damp is a problem that can grow behind the scenes and lead to other, more damaging, conditions including wood rot.