Rising damp is a myth, says former RICS chief

Reports a former surveying leader’s views on rising damp diagnoses and the usefulness of injected damp-proof courses.

Stephen Boniface, former chairman of the construction arm of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS ), has told the institute’s 40,000 members that ‘true rising damp’ is a myth and chemically injected damp-proof courses (DPC) are ‘a complete waste of money’.