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Everyone understands that the yanks raising interest rates will attract currency and put downward pressure on currencies that don’t raise their rates to retain parity…

I was trying to keep it simple, but you are correct, I made it too simple. Essentially standard waterproofing membranes are designed to be on the same side of a structure as the water… the water sort of pushes the membrane onto the surface. Negative hydrostatic pressure (rising damp) membranes bond so tightly to the substrate that the water and salts cannot push it off (bubbling, lifting or peeling) The situation the OP is describing is a rising damp type problem, or lateral damp if you will… If there was access then a surface patch and/or render coat followed by paint would solve his problem.

So now you say the RBA should raise interest rates ? Previously you’ve belittled them for doing just that.

Most typical waterproofing membranes act a bit like a pool liner, you apply (usually paint) them onto the inside of a vessel (tank, shower wall/floor, pond etc) and the water rests against it and is contained. If however the waterproof membrane is on the outside of the structure the water seeps through and literally pushes the membrane off the surface as they are just a thick, rubbery paint. The negative hydrostatic membranes are usually a modified epoxy that makes a better bond to/into the substrate enabling it to withstand the water trying to push it off. As to being able to fill voids in the wall by making multiple passes it really depends on the size of the voids. In a shower situation you would flush the imperfections with silicone (or cement mortar) and apply membrane over that, small imperfections you could “load up” your brush and fill, but they often open up again on the first/second coats. To fill poorly mortared block joints with membrane only in a situation where you were forced to only use a paint roller to apply would be a pretty tough ask. IMHO I’d go with the WPM 300 on the inside of the wall as my preferred coating, but a guttering would beat everything.

The problem with rolling paint or waterproofing over the outside is that presumably (and in the OP’s opinion the mortar to the blockwork is poor) paint and waterproofing will not fill those voids and water will still penetrate the wall. By applying a negative hydrostatic pressure membrane to the inside of the wall you stop the moisture getting inside, which is the end goal for the op.

Can you get a galvanized steel guttering formed up to fit between the two walls and channel the water away ? Or you could purchase a two part acrylic epoxy waterproofing membrane and apply it to the inside wall surface and 300/500 mm of the floor. Such a product is designed as a barrier to rising damp, from memory it can be painted within a day or two but not later. I’m a ceramic tiler and have used a product called Ardex WPM 300 for this purpose, give it a Google.

I thought the English were as hard to insult as us Aussies ?

Come to Oz Owl, bring your floaties you’ll need em, and you can have all the stinking carp you want !!

I’d be putting power and a tv in the rice shed, or Mrs Owl, whichever was easiest… ????

Different country, but what happens in Oz when the internet is down is the transaction is stored (seamlessly and automatically) and when the internet thingy is restored the transaction gets processed, hard for a dinosaur to understand I guess…

I sent Ody a pm earlier this year, he said he was "taking a break from the forum" such is the nature of fora i guess, but it also leaves one to ponder our mortality, at least I do on occasion. I do hope that everyone is keeping warm, dry and well, particularly you Odyssius. I'm sure that AT is with his bike and probably truck somewhere...

I do at every opportunity... ???? Ill pass it on, with thanks Owl.

Its a refreshingly different read Owl, the <deleted> and their egos don't or at least rarely visit. Happy Birthday for you. Speaking of such, today is Mrs HP's birthday, shes celebrating by helping a friend cut mangos...????

They usually trim the toenails though...

I had to learn the technique from a book, I was fairly quick, but I've got no hope of remembering that far back, or more to the point I wasn't quick enough to have a time worth remembering... ! ????

Im not sure its the best thing for the plastic but when I was a youngster my mates and I would lubricate our Rubiks Cubes with vasilene or baby oil, but I'm sure there are better lubes than that available. It really sped them up.

Straight to the point again I see, YOU are the one who throws the insults around. You've talked so much garbage in this thread that you've confused yourself... your only consistency is to abuse others, throw accusations around and claim to know all on the subject of the $AUD. So again I invite you to put your considerable prowess to work and make some specific predictions to give yourself some credibility...

maybe a little extreme @ozimoron but yeah, I'd like to see a little more love in the world too.

Forget the left/right crapshooot mate. Just try to analyse the facts, sure at the end of the day one source may be left or right leaning and you can weigh that into your interpretation but stand away and consider the facts first and foremost, its called critical thinking as opposed to blindly following.

Seeing as how you are magnificent in your comprehension of these matters, perhaps in order to demonstrate your greatness and as an act of benevolence you could set out some over the next 12 months (or until the world ends should that be sooner) dates and nominate the rates that know so surely will apply ? Your attempting of this would be greatly convincing to me and I suspect others of your competence. Of course your failure to act will prove to all and sundry exactly the sort of person you are… Mai Pen Rai my friend…

Credible fact checkers bow to acknowledged experts in their respective fields… I do believe that all fact checkers are not equal, but then again “poor” fact checkers are not fact checkers at all, they are lobbyists.

My FIL passed away in mid 2019 I wasn’t able to attend but my wife said it cost 200k. 3-4 days of party and of course the disco refrigerator. Small village outside of Phon Phisai.

He’ll defend himself ok until the cash is gone, how else do you get away with slander like he did a couple of years ago ?

Your second and third paragraphs make sense, but then you let yourself down by not appreciating that politicians act with similar biases as the general population. What they should have done was listen to actual scientists and then translated that science speak into a language of and for the people… instead many pushed their own self inflated personal opinions at the expense of experts in the field of virology and vaccination.

Sounds like the copper might be nailing her as well...