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I live in a house built in 1884 and the walls are NOT cavity style and are two bricks thick. EIGHT feet off the ground in the kitchen a 18 ins x 18 ins patch of damp appeared after some heavy rain (It is NOT rising damp!!). Three builders have been round and inspected the pointing outside and...

Many thanks - most informative.

I have a Victorian terraced hosue built in 1884 and the walls are NOT cavity style. The previous owners installed a pump-fed shower in the first floor bathroom, but the fools did not install any way for the hot air to escape the room. The windows are sash style so I guess some of the warm...

I have some damp is which eight feet off of the floor in the kitchen and which I think is as the result of worn-out bricks or poor pointing (although it still looks okay from the oustide and my NON-builder eyes!) which has come through a nine-inch NON-cavity wall. There is no damp coming from...

John I've checked the outlfow pipe from the bath (which I never use) and it seems ok. The hopper appears watertight too, but is seven feet from the damp. The ceiling is bone dry - (it is a trick of the light that appears to show it being wet .... the light does not illuminate the gap above the...

I've loaded up some photos for you to perUse. I'm not sure if there is enough gaps or indeed any damage over the top of the pipe from the bath (which is NEVER used) to allow Water to seep in. The elevation of the wall can be sEen to be worn (by the damp I presume) along some of its pointing, but...

Hi, Above the wall is a bathroom. I have ripped up the floorboards and checked the outflow pipe from the bath and it is bone-dry. I am intrigued that a wall which seems secure albeit with minor wear to the pointing has leaked so much. One builder said that this WAS the cause and another...

Eight feet off the ground (so it's not rising damp!) in my ground-floor kitchen, I have found an area of damp about a foot square. (My house was built in 1884). It is diagonally about six inches across over the top of one of the kitchen windows. There could be a small gap above the window frame...

The previous owners of my 1884 terraced house painted the outside rear six-inch thick non-cavity wall (all two floors of it), and eight years later some damp has got through the wall and lightly stained the inside wall, about eight feet up, near the ceiling over an area of one foot by one foot...

Many thanks for your help so far (see previous entry). Hope I am not asking a daft question, but I have attached a photograph of my outside wall where I believe the damp is coming in from and then staining the inside downstairs kitchen wall (the pipes/plumbing in the room above is bone dry). The...

Many thanks for the two very detailed answers above. I shall call a builder in!

Folks, I have managed to open an album and have loaded up three photo of the damage. Two are of the interior and one the eternal damaged brick (VERY recent damage too, perhaps though recent icy weather?). Is this damage enough to allow the damp in? My album is...

Cheers for the help chaps - much appreciated. Just had a visit from a 66 year-old neighbour who has lived in his house all his life (worth a look as little has changed inside since it was built!!) and he says that where my kitchen window is now located was where the backdoor was originally...

Thanks for all of ideas and help - I wish that you lived in my road, then you could pop round and view it! The window is about 2ft across and 21/2 ft high, and the damp patch is about six inches about the top right-hand corner of the window, which can be opened easily. The back door is on a...

The wall is about 15 feet long and two floors high and faces out onto the rear courtyard, however when the wind and rain comes, it hits the walls in an eddy-swirling style. Rain found its way with ease through a small hole that I had in the window frame as well, a few years ago, so I am getting...

In my kitchen on the ground floor and about six inches down from the ceiling a 6x6 inches lightly stained patch has appeared of late, although the patch itself is only mildly damp to the touch. I have looked outside and the brickwork seems secure and the grouting too ....... so where has this...

Hi, Seems to be a bit of damp on the base of the rad which is on the ground floor front room.

I have a tank in the first floor bathroom and a hot-water storage tank next to it heated up by a boiler which is downstirs on the wall. If a rad on the ground floor was leaking and I was unable to unscrew it from its fixings, to stop the dripping, presumably I would have to bleed the system to...

Many thanks for your respective bits of advice. Sadly I live in Kent so no doubt will have to put up with chalk impeding the performance of my new boiler. I wish someone would invent something to neutarlise chalk depsoits! The self same substance has made a mess of the inside of my shower door...

I am being brave and getting a Combi installed to replace a troublesome old boiler that the previous owners put in about nine years ago. The plumber said that I will also need an attachment to stop the system getting blocked up with gunk (a sort of water purifier(I live in Kent where chalk gets...