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oops and forgot to say - there's never been any sinks etc on the kitchen side of the damp wall - just bare wall. and anyway, the damp is much worse on the sitting room side of the wall than the kitchen side. what i really don't understand is why its so concentrated in one bit of the sitting...

well, i had a plumber round first he took a look at the central heating pipes which run behind the door architrave (the door between my sitting room and kitchen). they were my prime candidate bec they run floor to ceiling up the side of the door RIGHT BESIDE where the damp is on the wall...

thanks so much for the replies am moving back to thinking i do need a damp specialist (as i know its def not a leaky pipe) and don't think i'm going to be able to pinpoint the source myself. am going to contact the chap in pontypool (i have but we've missed eachother so far) and see if he...

hello - not to be rude or anything, but i have a damp problem i've posted about on another thread and i wondered if woody you would have time to have a look at it. i only ask because i have enjoyed some of your posts to other people on damp issues in the past. b ut of course if you don't have...

thanks so much all for all your thoughts! re some more info... the space between the floor boards and the dirt is about 10cm. the walls have got paint, paper, plaster (can't tell how old it is, but i definitely haven't put it on in the last 10years) and under that some cementy-looking...

sorry not to be clearer!! the wall is definitely solid red brick, with some kind of browny/gray cement/render/plaster on top (i got plumber to take off section of plaster so can see brick underneath). it is partly external and partly internal, ie classic terraced house with full width...

we seem to have a damp problem but 1/how can i be sure (there seems to be alot of scepticism about rising damp) and 2/ if we do have it, what is the best thing to do? it is on interior ground floor solid brick wall, worse at bottom, rises to about 1m, worse on one side but evident on both. no...