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Poster # 21, In all your digging activities there's no mention of your water testing new drainage or having your excavations inspected by BCO. Perhaps inconvenient details are irrelevancies for such a busy chap? Whatever, I would encourage anyone with even half a brain to follow the Bldg. Regs.

So far there is nothing to confirm its "the blocked drain" - a drain which we haven't yet clearly seen, a drain that could be an Aco or a gully? We can confirm there's a cavity wall, and what that might imply in terms of damp? If the cause is rising damp or penetrating damp then drying out the...

OP, If you are basing your approach on hope then you may as well have stayed at home and made three wishes?

OP, I'm giving you free professional advice, & asking questions based on experience. Perhaps you will follow my advice for what its worth?

OP, You still dont know what the cause of "the hallway damp" is, neither will a dehumidifier solve the problem.

OP, There are specific Bldg Regs for flat entrance doors. As above, a fire door fitted according to Regs is required - the door must also be a security door.

OP, The thick bed of mortar could be the DPC - using thick bed mortar for a DPC often fails in time. A previous go at injecting a chemical DPC has been attempted. Is that an Aco linear drain showing in pic one? What is the white plastic device? Given the air bricks then it suggests a suspended...

OP, Your descriptions are difficult to understand. You have chimney breasts on each floor and in the loft - when the loft c/breast pierces the roof it becomes the chimney stack. C/breasts contain flues. Your pic shows your party wall - your party wall was the back wall of the c/breast flue...

OP, Presumably, the void left in the party wall when the chimney breast was removed was totally "filled in"? What is on the other side of the wall? The neighbour's matching chimney breast? Why not ask the neighbour if you can have a look? When the fireplace and chimney breast was removed was the...

OP, Your presumption not withstanding, you opened this thread to ask for advice but now you reject advice, & reject providing photos? Thank you for posting details ref the D&T company quote - it might be helpful to those in similar positions but there's no way of roughly verifying the company...

OP, 1. The quote is cheap - back in the day I would have charged quite a bit more for the work I can see in your pics & diagram. 2. Rock bottom basic is £200 per man per day - and then some more. 3. One and a half days never existed - we worked on the basis of full days for such work - a time...

OP, Why not provide pics of inside the cellar, & outside at ground level? What do you intend to do with the cellar?

OP, We dont yet know what kind of damp you are dealing with - so why not post pics of the outside ground levels. & the interior signs of damp? Detailed pics & larger context views will help? As above, ditch any ideas for installing panelling. And ditch notions that ventilation will "cure" true...

OP, Whats your purpose in gaining access to the back nut - to remove & replace the mixer or something else? A bit of light and a camera on a selfie stick will give a clear view of the inaccessible bit.

OP, A pic of the front of the chimney breast might help? Redundant flues in chimney breasts need to be ventilated from bottom to top. Outside there appears to be a large band or bed of mortar with moisture creeping up from the ground. There's no sign of a DPC. Without knowing where the DPC or...

OP, There are a number of things wrong with your present installation,& your proposed solution.

OP, You appear to have damp that is more than condensation - previous repairs have been attempted & failed. Why not post a pic of the outside at ground level? Is the wall solid or cavity? Is the floor solid or suspended? Is the wall solid plaster or Dot&Dab? Immediately to the right - is that a...

OP, I think that your best bet would be to bring in a carpenter or a builder for a heads up after you explain what you propose to do? If you would or wouldn't need a SE I dont know?

OP, No, dont go cutting a slot in the ceiling - find the joists & screw up into the joists. Screw straight through the ceiling plaster board or plaster lath. There may have been no need to cut into the walls but I cant see their construction detail - whatever, its how it is. Ref the...

OP, Why not go into the roof space/loft and find out what is supported?