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@Scarlet Pimpernel Thank you. He does plan to put another layer pf DPM on top, but with all the rocking around of the insulation on the uneven ground I don't know how they'll manage the pour and keep it intact, let alone stop the insulation cracking. The strips were cut there I think to allow...

I think I know the answer, but I need confirmation either way... I employed a builder to remove an existing timber floor in my 1890 terrace. This decision was carefully considered following some serious damp issues. Drains have been installed to remove water that tended to accumulate under the...

Hello All. I have a two up two down built circa 1890. I've just stripped the wallpaper from the main bedroom to find something strange. There's a wooden wall behind the door. It looks to be made of floorboards or similar, and judging from the wallpaper that was on it, it's an original, or at...

Just to let everyone who has contributed advice on this thread know, I've had a structural engineer and a builder who deals with this kind of problem have a look. The agreed solution is to dig a drain channel network under the room that will lead to the drain storm drain entrance near he front...

Good question. A strange arrangement of guttering. Mine flows from my house straight into next doors gutter before flowing down a down pipe to heavens knows where. It's like that all the way down the hill.

Thanks for the continued advice. Both seem like very good ideas which I will follow up. I'm convinced that it's rainwater and nothing else. As well as seeping from the walls it's rising from the floor on the left side of the fireplace so it must be where the water table is close to the surface...

...Is replacing with a concrete floor really such a bad idea considering the situation?

Yes, that's exactly how it sounds. I thought the same myself.

I attached two pictures. One of the fireplace, wall and water. You can see how it pools and flows out. The other is the drain at the front door.

Hi. I have just purchased a terraced house. Built circa 1890. It's in a row of 24 houses built on a relatively steep hill. The houses are built in pairs. Each pair is lower than the pair before as they step down the hill. I'm near the bottom. I'm situated so that, looking at the house, the house...