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Victorian Cottage Blog Part 1: Do I need to add a damp proof course to the walls of my house?
By Glenn Blackie
Wednesday 4th February 2026
Also in category: Mould prevention
In this series of blog posts, Ecological Building Systems’ Digital Content Administrator Glenn Blackie talks about his own experiences with renovating his Victorian cottage near Hadrian’s Wall.
In this first post, Glenn explains how we approached the question of whether or not to add a damp proof course to his new home (and saved himself thousands of pounds in the process).
Blog author
Glenn Blackie
Digital Content Administrator
Glenn has worked in website content creation for over ten years. He strives to make the incomprehensible understandable and to breakdown the most technically detailed content into bite sized chunks.
In his free time, Glenn enjoys writing and has several novels published with one currently in progress. Living close to Hadrian's wall there is already a new series brewing in his imagination.