dampproofing

I live in a 1920’s semi-detached house with solid walls. As we’ve moved into winter/wetter weather I’ve noticed a tide line beginning to appear on part of the hallway wall leading to the stairs. The other half of the hallway closer to the front door does not have this issue. We have also...

I have recently purchased a new property and I am looking at converting the detached garage into a workshop. The garage sits at the bottom of a reasonably steep slope leading up to the house and the rear garage wall doubles up as a retaining wall for the garden behind it. In order to reinforce...

We have just had an extension built and have noticed that our next door neighbours have quite bad damp (albeit under their dpc) however our corner that touches theirs is now becoming damp. Looking at the images our dpc is visible and then disappears closer to their wall. Should this be exposed...

Hi, I am putting down new flooring on our top floor apartment (2007) that we just bought. One room has a balcony. It seems dampness is coming in from the balcony - particularly after rain [maybe that's obvious :o) ]. Is there any way to fix or mitigate this before putting down vinyl? Any...