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Photos of the house. I have highlighted in a red circle roughly where the damp spots correspond to the outside wall. Further house history.... To ensure no opportunity for rising damp. I dug out a 2 foot ish wide trench, right down to the concrete footing off the house. I think dug another inch...

See a pic of the tin. I 'knocked' around at the wall at the weekend. A lot of the wall sounds very hollow, apart from the damp circles which make a dull thud. I'm not entirely sure if the wall has been plaster boarded, and the circles could be Dot/Dab ? The cold is potentially bridging across...

The pipe is a door stop. Does look like a pipe from the photo! I think it could be a brick defect then. There is no immediate water source on the outside of the wall. The drain pipe from the roof is 6 feet away on the corner of the house. There is no pipework in the wall, only a radiator pipe...

As you can see in the photo, I have 2 circular stains, and some further staining down at the bottom of the wall behind the skirting. These have been present for several years, so I decided to tackle them. As intructed on the Zinsser BIN tin, I painted straight onto the wall onto the existing...

I am thinking of digging out a 2 foot wide channel down to the lowest brick around the house, and re filling with new course gravel. I will then re gravel but not go as high up the house as it was orignally, so at least 1, maybe 2 bricks below the painted line. This should help by exposing more...

Here are the issues internally. I am very keen to sort this damp issue as our next project is to sort out our god awful hallway. The red lines indicate where the damp is on prolonged days of rain. This doesn't happen very often. But we regularly get around 1/4 of the area damp on an average...

A bit of an update, no major work done yet but I've had a dig around out the front. Beneath the top layer of gravel were some old slabs, which were angled slightly into the house, I have removed all of these. Beneath those is a mix of stone, brick pieces and mud. You can see from the photo there...

I have a 1930s semi with a minor damp problem on the front 2 walls. The house is situated quite low down, around 1-2 feet lower than the path infront of the drive. I am currently addressing the drainage and I am going to dig away and lay course gravel then a top layer of finish gravel around the...