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Thanks for your reply Woody. I am now thinking that a separate wall is the way to go. I’m thinking I can build a double skin wall with about 300mm gap just at the edge of my patio doors. It’s good to know your views on there been no real issues with a small gap between properties. I won’t get...

Yes I see what you mean. So have a cavity at my neighbours side and a cavity at my side and share the brick wall in the centre as the boundary. Do you think that would get round the fact that the external brick wall in slightly on the neighbours side of the boundary?

Hi, I am starting to think about adding an extension to the rear of my property. As you can see in the attached photo, my neighbours house already had an extension, which was build about 8 years ago by the previous owners (also before we moved in). I have marked a blue line on the photo where...

There is a kitchen on both sides below and no cracks below. I think the wall below is double skin breeze block

The red arrow shows where the cracks are on the gable end.

Hi, We bought the house a few years ago. It was built in the early 70s and a 2 story extension was added in the 80s. The gable end of the extension is joined to nextdoors garage (shared wall) and the upper gable end is built above. I have only recently noticed this crack when I had to get on...

Thanks for the reply the back wall looks wet up to about 50cm right across but there is no grey salts...but the back of the house gets no sun so that might have something to do with it I guess. The front of the house is fine it seems to just be bad where the water sit. The soil is thick clay as...

I've just checked the pipe and it is actually plastic but I suppose it could still be damaged...would you expect the floor and the walls to be wet inside? I have removed the bath panel close to where the water pipe comes out and it is dry as a bone. Could damp creep about a dpc without it been...

The plumbing is from the early 70s when place was built but the only only pipe in the concrete floor is the mains in with is a copper pipe coming out of the floor in the bathroom, which is halfway down that wall. Is there any way to tell if water is leaking into the cavity without removing a brick?

I was told they were blocked up because the cavity has been filled so its no longer required. The floor inside is concrete. No there isn't a water meter. But the ground never looks wet. I might get a builder to change a couple of the blown bricks and see what is behind. Is this a big job?

Thanks for the replies...I've been told that cavity wall insulation was installed in 2009, could this be soaking up the water and breaching the dpc? And yes the ground is just clay. I'm struggling to find a way to drain it.

No there not as bad but our house sits lower than the rest and I have been told that water sits about 3 inch on the drive when it rains heavy. I'm gonna try and dig a soakaway in the back garden but was to restore the bricks if its possible

Hi I am new to this forum, I've just moved to a new house and as you can see in the pictures the bricks look damp about 50cm up the wall at the front and the back and they are covered with rock hard grey salt crystals? It looks a mess and the faces are blowing off. The damp course all the way...