suspended floor

[northernlights]

I had my floors up recently and discovered that they are built over many small sleeper walls and suspended over bare earth. My house is around 30 years old.

The house is built on a downhill slope with one long narrow room particularly susceptible to waterflow downhill from the driveway. This room has only one air brick along its only unenclosed narrow end facing the driveway.

A novice - so any advice about combating potential damp problems is very welcome.

 

[gday2uk]

Has the house had any damp problems in 30 years?

 

[Nige F]

30 years old it aint gonna be bare earth...30x3 years, maybe. OR is it a load of mud that`s washed down and through the airbricks onto the concrete oversite

 

[northernlights]

Thanks for replies!

There is concrete in places but beside a pipe that runs underneath there are boulders!

Plumbers found a leak in the pipe (now sealed) which they told me had been seeping into the bare earth beneath.

I am a new owner and can't see signs of damp - but there has been a sourish smell..

 

[^woody^]

any advice about combating potential damp problems is very welcome.

It's a waste of time commenting on potential damp probelms if non exist currently.

Lots of things may or may not happen, and bare earth underfloor is not in itself a probelm

But you need to ventilate the underfloor void, to remove humidity and smells