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No problems. Take your time. Here's a few things I've noticed. The underflooring conditions for rot and condensation are partly due to lack of through ventilation under the floor. The front air bricks seem to be too high set above the finished floor, & the back air bricks might have been...

As noticed in the other thread someone mentioned the flashing is the problem and I agree. You will have to get up there and lift the back gutter flashing and the tile course above the back gutter, and see if the roof felt is arranged properly then re-set the felt, the back gutter and the tiles...

sjee6,have you finished with this thread or just stopped for a bit? The blurred pic of fungus shows what could be dry rot, a better pic is needed. Dry rot can move through wall cavities. The deck boards are not wood they are composite and wont rot. "The little roof at the back" is an extension...

First thing would be to remove all damp looking floor to ceiling wall plaster & chimney breast plaster back to bricks then, whatever else your doing, the walls will be drying out. Remove the hearth for the the moment and dig out the soil below it. Are you going to keep the hearth or do...

You can use DPM or 12" DPC or even doubled up plastic rubble bags. And galvanised clout nails instead of staples. Some leave the top open for air but if the rot was dry rot thats not a good idea. Spores might be hanging around and could re-infect the joist. Always cap the joists after rot or...

On the face of it what you describe is a potentially dangerous situation. as above post some pics of the inside and the outside of the room and eaves.

its a puzzle but i think the back gutter and the membrane are somehow at fault. The back gutter should slope a little towards the chimney but its sloping the other way. The sheets of membrane seem to have been pieced in above the back gutter. The membrane should have been run past the trimming &...

If you google "images of Victorian foundations" you will see a number of stepped brick foundations. Where you've already been digging you could dig a bit deeper, about 100mm or so then clean soil off the bricks and post new photos. But I suspect what you show of the foundation is all you've...