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Help with damp in dining room

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Sweett00th · 05/03/2021 07:03

We’ve just moved into our end of terrace and after painting first coat in dining room noticed patches of damp in bottom corner on outer wall, we knew there was bits of damp in survey but wondered what we can do to sort out. Are there any experts?

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Help with damp in dining room
Help with damp in dining room
Help with damp in dining room
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Sweett00th · 09/03/2021 13:23

What’s a dpc? It’s stone at bottom from where I scraped pebbles. There was bits of soil too so pushed away from wall as hiding moisture too.

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Kitkat151 · 09/03/2021 13:26

Dpc...damp proof course

Sweett00th · 09/03/2021 14:00

Don’t think there is

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PigletJohn · 09/03/2021 14:19

looking at the brickwork, I think the house would have been built with a DPC. Most likely a double layer of slate, laid in the mortar bed about nine inches above where the ground level used to be when the house was built. I suspect the mortar plinth was applied later, and probably bridges the DPC. It might still be visible at a door way, under or beside the doorstep. If you can find it anywhere, follow it round the house, it is pretty sure to be the same height all round. The ground level may well have been raised over the years by peple adding paving, concrete, gravel and flowerbeds.

The bottom of the wall is unlikely to be stone, it might be bricks of a different colour, or it might be rendered with mortar. I might be able to make it out if you use a flash.

Anyway

Can you stand back and take some wider views? Especially the outside of the damp corner, showing it at ground level, and including the pipes. I still think the water is falling from above, from the gutter and/or pipes.

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