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Hi An update on the mystery damp patch! After having had next to no rain for the past 6 weeks or so, we conclude that it is probably not a rainwater problem! I think we may be under attack from below - water is coming up through the floor and not the brickwork. It looks like there may be a...

Hi After posting about (a relatively paultry) damp problem, I got loads of helpful comments!! So how about this one..... We are preparing a chimney for use in a kitchen so we can put the cooker in the gap between the jambs. Steel lintels are in at the bottom and this week we got a...

erm thanks investigator - just a small job then......perhaps one for the summer! JohnD - no sign of funny colours coming through but what was your feeling? We replaced the lead under advice from a building inspector, he said it was worth a try. Water runs off the lead straight into the...

Water wash may have come from when the mortar was drying out - the lead goes all the way under the stone and overlaps the other side by 2" so water 'shouldn't' be able to get through? Waiting for funny colours to appear on the inside - might take a few days......

It's raining at the minute - I'll have a go later :D

Sorry JohnD - about the surroundings! We use it as a lounge. Multifuel burner and 1 radiator. We open windows. Floor level is 3" below rest of house which is 2 storey this one room is only 1. The only pipe we know of used to lead to a well round the back - this has been disconnected...

Looking under the wallpaper - wet flaky plaster. When we took it off before - wet bricks underneath. It has only started making the floor wet in the last year. Under the carpet you see the damp starts in the corner and radiates out following the carpet runners. There are a couple of random...

I hope these work - the walls are red brick, double skin with no cavity. The outer wall was rendered 1920's and rendered again 1980's.