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There is a downpipe on that corner so I am assuming that a pipe is buried there to take the water in to the main drain

The internal concrete floor goes right to the walls so I am chiselling a channel so there is some sort of air gap. I have no idea if a dpm is present - how far below the floor surface should this be?

There are no pipes of drains along the wall - just the downpipe on the corner by the French doors. As far as I know water does not lie in the alley or by the back door where the damp is worse, but there are two chimney brests in wall that forms the alleyway and both have damp plaster low down

There is a crack in the concrete path where the plinth was falling off and bricks are most damaged. The main drain runs to the right of this down the alley between the house. Next door currently has the scaffolding up and I am guessing the alleyway is generally damp as would get virtually no...

Thanks for the replies which gives me a few things to think about - I will post a couple more pics tomorrow when next back at the house.

Hi, I recently purchased what has turned out to be a very damp Victorian semi detached. Running along the whole of the extenal wall is about 6 inches of concrete plinth which was easily removed in places to reveal the dpc which is 2 bricks above the external concrete path. As you can see in...