Please see this wall with the door next to it (you can see the door handles). That's penetrating damp isn't it? And that wall isn't really finished off is it? It ought to have a cover stone on it like the one round the corner (see pic with wires)
Background: we've bought the basement flat beneath our house after many years of frustration and tension (it's a conversion of a large Victorian terraced house so we were very vulnerable to noise/smoke from below).
We now face the next challenge, which is that it is damp, to the extent that you can see mould on some inside walls. It also feels damp.
Now, it is a basement flat, but it is on a hill, so the wall on one side is underground but the other wall is not. It's not the underground wall side that's the problem! Surprisingly, it seems to be the above-ground side where the biggest issues are.
I went round with a moisture meter the other day. Having read about rising damp I was expecting a pattern of damp rising up to about 1m but it was much more patchy.
There was a particularly bad area about 1m up behind the wall-next-to-door, so I looked at the wall outside. It isn't finished, is it? Water is coming straight in isn't it?
I would appreciate any advice. This situation is quite a challenge - we knew it would be, but still....