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29/7/2017 at 1:29pm
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I have never used a meter so can't answer your specific question. I am sure others will be able to answer it.
However, some years ago I bought a caravan (now back to a tent) and searching for one was certainly a learning curve. I never met anyone who admitted their caravan had damp and yet most of them did.
The places to look are around windows, the walls inside the front seat lockers under the cushions front and side, the roof, especially around skylights although water leaking into the roof area will run down to the lowest point so could be pooling anywhere, walls in shower rooms and wardrobes, around doors, inside cabinets...so, as you can see, pretty much everywhere but mostly the areas you can't easily see like under sinks...and do not forget to examine floors around doors and in the corners for rot inside and out. They should feel solid not springy.
If the damp is bad and has been around a long time the walls go spongy like cardboard and can be pressed in with the hands...and believe me, some of them you can pretty well press your fingers through! If it has had damp that has been cured the dried walls may sound 'crispy' when you press on them. You need to ask for any evidence that damp has been cured such as a repairers bill.
In the end I managed to get a nice little caravan with no damp (a small area had been cured and I was given the paperwork to prove it) and I sold it for the same price I paid for it a little over a year later.
Good luck and don't let your heart rule your head and say, 'Oh it's only a little bit' because what you can see is only a small part of the overall damage.
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