Folks - after this wet summer a damp patch has emerged in my kitchen, although it is not too damp to the touch (see photo). Is this damp that has travelled upwards from the floor area? The other photo shows outoor and there appears to be no damage to the brick work (which is double thickness - NOT cavilty wall and the house was built in 1884 and re-painted externally last year with the damaged bits between the bricks re-rendered). I am at a loss to see where this is coming from. Any ideas?
Kitchen damp - has the damp-course gone??
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got a pic of the outside?
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What happened to the picture of INSIDE ? 
In a property of that age it is unlikely to have a damp course, allthough there could be a blue brick DPC behind the paint. Your damp is allmost certainly due to the excessive rain. Are the floors solid or boarded? If boarded you may be able to insert a slate damp course.
kitchen, eh?
you mean the room with the water pipes and the drains, all with water flowing through them? Some of them buried in the floor where you can't inspect them? Some of them perhaps very old?
and the water you observe in the wall, is this also seen in other rooms, in the same house with the same construction and standing on the same ground, but without the pipes?
you mean the room with the water pipes and the drains, all with water flowing through them? Some of them buried in the floor where you can't inspect them? Some of them perhaps very old?
and the water you observe in the wall, is this also seen in other rooms, in the same house with the same construction and standing on the same ground, but without the pipes?
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