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Its around the length of the long wall of the living room, and then the perpendicular wall (that you can see cut into here). This is is the drop-down (3-4 steps) into the new kitchen extension, so the adjoining kitchen wall will be against this already damp wall - if that makes sense!

Thanks so much for the replies so far! Here's a photo, where we cut away for the stairs. The main thing we're worried about is whether this is causing damp, and if there's any effectcive way to manage that!

We recently discovered that ground floor living room of our Victorian terrace house is a concrete slab, under which is a layer of DPM, then sand, then soil. When we opened it up, we were expecting to find a suspended timber floor, with a void providing ventillation (this is what the neighbours...