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Thanks Ivor. Yes, we've been trying to do as much as we can to find out more about what needs to be done to put things right, such as posting on this forum, rather than just leave it to our neighbour to do. She's lovely and we're certainly lucky to have such a good neighbour.

Many thanks for all of you who have kindly replied and generously shared your experience. I'm most grateful for the guidance. We'll be meeting up at the weekend with our neighbour and her retired builder father to discuss a way forward. We have quite a bit of damage inside with plaster falling...

Thanks Ivor. Yes, it's clear to me now that the gravel is no use as a drain and was just a top dressing for the mud in the shallow trench between their path and our wall. I don't know whether the paving was laid on top of an existing path. It's my GF's house and she was renting it out when the...

Hi @JohnD Many thanks for your thoughts. Yeah, as I feared, it really needs to be dug out to do a proper job - as you quite rightly say. It looks like the trench wasn't dug deeply enough as it's no lower than the DPC, and then a thin topping of gravel was laid in top. I think what you're...

Hi, I'm looking for some advice on a penetrating damp situation in a single (not cavity) wall in our (actually my GF's) house. The bottom of the wall and around 50cm of the solid concrete floor are damp (10 to 30% on a moisture meter). We have recently discovered that the neighbours paved path...