Ineffective damp course in garage...

[garmcqui]

So I went out to give the garage a tidy and a sweep and found this. It has been raining quite heavily yesterday and today, but surely this shouldn’t be happening?

To my (very untrained) eye, it looks like the damp course is too high, it’s half a brick above the concrete floor.

Is this wrong, and what can I do? House is only just less than 4yrs old. Garage is detached, and only single skin walls

Cheers

 

[John D v2.0]

It's fine, garages are not intended to be habitable spaces, the only requirement is that the garage itself shouldn't be damaged by the moisture.
If you want to make it dry you can lay something on top with a suitable dpc. Normally for a house the DPM would lap the dpc.

 

[stuart45]

So I went out to give the garage a tidy and a sweep and found this. It has been raining quite heavily yesterday and today, but surely this shouldn’t be happening?

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To my (very untrained) eye, it looks like the damp course is too high, it’s half a brick above the concrete floor.

It probably starts level at the back and slopes down to the front to allow for drainage.
This is normal for a garage.