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TicTac, there's no DPC - but all of the outside ground is below the height of the suspended floor. The skirting seems unaffected, so hopefully there'll be no need to hack away any plaster - it's all the original lovely lime plaster.

Thanks for the response, bobasd. And for the offer of help. Well, the wispy white fungus covering the joists and board undersides and the small tendrils on the topsides look a lot like dry rot, and the bit that looks like wet rot is just sodden, spongy and crumbly - but, admittedly, I'm not an...

Thanks for the reply. The area is on an estuary - so the soil is prone to being quite moist at the best of times. The DPC is slate on the dwarf walls that support the joists at the walls, and blue engineering bricks on those in the middle of the room, but there appears to be no obvious...

I've recently bought a narrow c.1860 mid-terrace that has significant issues with wet and dry rot to the ground floor, as well as woodworm (all hidden under laminate, with no obvious smells or 'bouncy' floors despite large holes in the floorboards below). The amount of rotten broken wood scraps...