Electroosmosis to renovate damp walls

Hello everyone

So, our house is almost 200 years old. It still has 80cm sandstone walls, which were very damp when we bought it (1983). It has no basement. One meter below ground we already have groundwater.
Copper wires were installed every 40 cm from the outside into the base, and connected around the house with a copper wire. At each corner of the house, an iron pipe (1m) was driven into the ground and connected to the wires.
After about 3 years, everything was dry. I removed the plaster and replastered it.

Best regards
from dämmunsinn

Hello Hertweck, a lot of nonsense is written, also in the literature. The point of the matter is certainly that you are supposed to buy it.... At least I know some literatures and book authors in this regard. The artificially inflated dispute about the electroosmosis, which has actually been settled forever, also has a different background. Scientists also fall into oblivion.... :-) Incidentally, electroosmosis can be considered as a migration from the anode to the cathode but also that then nothing more migrates to the permanent positive pole.... And that is exactly the secret of the matter. We are not interested in how much and how fast the moisture migrates to the cathode, but in the described reverse process of the permanent potential reversal of the masonry. Due to the minimally controlled residual moisture from the control unit, the current flow in the masonry is permanently maintained at a few percent of household moisture, never fails, and permanently keeps the rising moisture away. So it is nonsense when it is claimed... Wet-Dry-Wet-Dry. Such a system also operates with only 10% residual moisture if you know how to handle it. Or where is it written that you need higher moisture to ensure a current flow? Incidentally, I have been successfully working with this method since the 1990s. If it did not work, I would have long since been out of business with the product, the company, and the name. It is just strange that my success proves the complete opposite of the negative propaganda about electroosmosis.

And one final word on the subject...
Besides, everyone can already see for themselves that we are not pensioner catchers on coffee trips, but have been working for decades with globally renowned clients. That these contracts are always tendered and accompanied by civil engineers, etc., is surely well known to you.
You also know that the procedure has been standardized for ages.
So I only wonder what "NEW" has been discovered today with one or two contradictory new opinions from scientists who apparently want to make themselves look a bit important.
Do you mean that the previous examinations, etc., by all other scientists are therefore now questionable, inferior, or even incorrect?
Incidentally, even VDI Germany recommends the active electroosmosis process.
Association of German Engineers.

A small correction: The VDI does not recommend electroosmosis in the publication you linked; it merely presents a company and its offer (here "active electroosmosis") more or less covertly. The publication from which you quote ("Thüringer Mitteilungen") is also subtitled "Thuringian Companies in Interview." As I said, I am not arguing here in the forum about active electroosmosis – nor, by the way, about the advantages of thermally insulated houses or sufficiently moist breathing air. And anyway: "Der Sinn der Sache ist sicher das man es kaufen soll...."

Um..., "arguments" of Dämmunsinn?

Oh dear, "insulation nonsense" has been floating around the forums of the German-speaking world for many years - and always the same twisted topics and "arguments." Please don't take it personally, it's only about the content.