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That looks interesting but I don't think the problem in my parents house is damp condensation in the air. It might be useful for my flat but I'm not sure how a fan blowing air into the hall would remove "indoor and outdoor pollutants from the home". I'll probably need to install aircon soon...

tell80, Thanks, I'll ask my Dad to measure the thickness of the walls, or do it myself next time I'm there and see if he has any elevation pics. I'll recommend that he demolish and replace his rear steps with concrete ones too. I can't find the page I was looking at before but it said that...

tell80, No, not on a hill. A couple of streets away the road rises to join the main road but in the other direction it's all pretty flat. It's definitely solid walls because my Dad tried to get cavity wall insulation. I'll get him to check the air bricks to make sure they're not clogged. I...

OK, sounds like getting a CCTV drains survey should be the first step and then work up from there.

He certainly doesn't have a fortune, so is there any point in getting a surveyor to have a look if he can't afford to replace the paint/render? Is the surveyor likely to say anything other than "render's OK" or "render needs replacing"?

Thanks. Hopefully he'll know what it was painted with. If it wasn't a breathable paint and/or the render is cement, how much do you think it would cost to get someone to remove the paint / render and re-do it? Would it be worth just getting the render removed from the lower bricks painted in...

Which areas is the external ground level high? I can see how the crack in the rear wall to the right of the patio door could be letting in moisture and causing the problem in that corner, so I'll tell him to get that sorted. The rain down pipe above the drain at the back can be easily extended...

He's lived there about 40 years now and I think the porch has been there for about 30 years. I don't think this has been a problem before, but of course there may have been some minor damp in the wall that wasn't evident beneath the wallpaper until recently. I think the wallpaper was changed...

I've got some more information and the photos now. The house was built in the 1930's and apparently the DPC is probably bitumen rather than lead. We can't mark it as it's below the walls. The exteriors walls are rendered. This is the inside rear right-hand corner of the living room, by the...

I'm not sure whether it's rendered. I need to check that. The step at the back is outside the patio door, which opens on the left and the damp my Dad found is in the right-hand corner, although the people who came out said there was damp in the internal wall between the kitchen and the living...

I think the airflow is pretty good. There's nothing blocking it in the front garden, which hasn't been concreted over for parking, and at the back (south facing) there's about 5ft of decking between the house and the lawn and the airbricks are exposed and clear of obstruction. There's a step...

Thanks. I'll get some photos when I'm next there. What's the DPC? Neither area is an extension. There's a porch outside the front door which was added about 30 years ago and there's no extension at the back, other than a utility room which is on the left of the house, adjoining the kitchen...

My Dad has a problem with damp in a couple of places in his semi-detached house (probably built in the 1930's or 1950's, I'll check but I know it has solid walls as he couldn't get cavity wall insultation). At the back of the house next to the patio door there's a patch. The external wall has...

My flat gets so hot every summer, it's 32-32C at the moment and it's going to be a while before I can install air con, so I'm going to install solar reflective film on the windows as an interim measure to try to prevent my flat cooking me. Unfortunately my double-glazed windows aren't...