Need help with damp!

[transam]

The water main I think but the meter stops if I turn the water off. No central heating pipes.

Don’t quite understand

Meter stops when you turn the water off

Yes

Where are you turning the water off at your property boundary ????

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

The water main I think but the meter stops if I turn the water off. No central heating pipes.

Where is the meter located?

 

[Lower]

Is the lounge timber floored? The air brick, at the bottom of the bay, suggests it might be.

Why are there air bricks in the bay if it’s a concrete floor? A later repair job after the floor rotted?

 

[JohnD]

Why are there air bricks in the bay if it’s a concrete floor? A later repair job after the floor rotted?

Very annoyingly, when there is a leaking pipe in the ground causing damp and rotting the floor, some numbskulls like to pour concrete over it instead of mending it.

This makes the job of digging out the leaking pipe and replacing it a hundred times more difficult and expensive.

 

[Rod2808]

Hi water meter is outside on the street, turning the water off at the stop valve under the kitchen sink.

 

[mrrusty]

A bit of a shame to lose the tiles.

Whatever you do, you don't need to lose them. They will be really hard encaustic tiles. Photograph them, lift them, clean them up (which can be a fair bit of work - we did ours with a rotating wire brush to get mortar remnants off) and then relay them. They are definitely worth keeping. Likely underneath there is no DPC at all.

 

[blup]

Keep the tiles, even if you don’t immediately reuse them. The main water pipe likely comes in under the hallway floorboards which a previous owner changed from a suspended to a flood floor but didn’t properly program rising damp. It’s also possible that a damaged pipe caused some of the problem. You won’t know until you dig it out.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Hi water meter is outside on the street, turning the water off at the stop valve under the kitchen sink.

If the meter is at the same place as your stop valve, and the kitchen is at the rear of the house - then it could still be the case, that your mains water pipe, passes under your home, and could be leaking water into your foundations, and perhaps the cause of your damp issues.

 

[foxhole]

External ground level is too high .
Any parapet walls at roof level with neighbours? Do they have damp issues?