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We had new vinyl put down about a month ago in our kitchen. About 10 days ago our boiler decided to leak from the auto air vent valve. It wasn't a massive flood but it was a leak that dripped down the wall, onto the floor and then under the vinyl. The vinyl had a nice cushy soft layer underneath...

I've read some things. Generally the big debate about the mythic rising dampness :) Can do. It's in focus and lit enough to see the issue. You can see the bump and the shadow caused by it. If the floor wasn't bubbling it would be flat. Tiles or something. I can't recall exactly. Not...

Any ideas anyone? :)

No carpets. Just laminate. Looked like a solid concrete floor when we had laminate put in. Spoke with Dryzone people and they said just do the holes closer together to be safe.

That doesn't appear to be the case in our house :) Upstairs they are under floorboards. Downstairs they don't seem to be. Everything is external. I think the house is built on a concrete slab so it was easier to put all the pipes outside it. What would you want to see more photos of?

There are pipes behind that orange wall in the kitchen but the kitchen wall is fine. Wouldn't the leaky pipe cause an issue in the kitchen as well? I'll take a look at the pipes to make sure.

I honestly couldn't say. We had laminate flooring put in and it looked like the floor beneath was just concrete. Ah sorry no. The trench is designed to stream water away from the house. Water isn't continuously running through it. Yes. No. The orange affected wall is...

Hello :) Just want to come back to this and say we've had the trench dug around the house. It works fine and water flows away from the house. Nice 2 - 3 bricks deep trench. However, we still have a damp issue on the internal wall. There's been a hammock bag resting against that...

About 2 years ago our kitchen flooded. Insurance company came out with a dehumidifier and ran that for a very long time. The guy came out to check our house was dry and said "Its an old house. These things are never perfectly dry so I can't give you a dry certificate. It's close enough though."...

Something I just noticed was the internal back room wall has visible damp but on the other side of that wall in the kitchen there isn't any. I don't understand why damp would come in from outside and only sit in that one side, not both. The bricks outside all look dry.

It's been a year almost and the damp is still visible. The flags were put in over 12 years ago and we were told that they caused the DPC to fail so we needed new DPC. 190mm based on the Dryzone guidelines for a 220mm wall. I don't think our wall looks anything like this...

Evening. We currently have rising damp in our house. There is this; Also the floor in the kitchen is bubbling, as is the wallpaper. We've had people check with the little tricorders and it says the walls are damp. We've been told the cause is due to the old home owners laying flags...

Thanks. We went with the Dettol approach last night. That seems to have worked without damaging the wallpaper. There seems to be a few little spots left. They are so small its hard to know if they are tiny holes in the wallpaper or mould. Tough scrubbing will only rip the wallpaper so...

Afternoon. I've just moved a plastic art folder that was behind a couch only to find the wallpaper behind the art folder is covered in mould. It's in my front room and I think it's been there about a year. I'm assuming long term I'll need to redo the wallpaper. Short term? I was...

Because building contractors source by our insurance company have checked, tested and explained to us that the dpc has failed. They never said bridged.