Estane
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Hey folks, looking for a bit of advice regarding options to treat a water ingress issue.
House is a 1910s terrace with solid wall construction - no dpc present. Water ingress was identified from a garden wall that abuts the rear of the house. Took the coping stone out at the top and the wall was soaked, render just fell away. We also had a great deal of vegetation growing in it with roots more than 3 metres deep into the wall.
So far we've dismantled the wall down to just below external ground level and it looks like water is draining from the neighbours garden into the wall in addition to any rain that lands on it directly. Cheekilly left a hose pipe running for a few minutes just over the wall of the property. An hour or so later water started coming through where we'd deconstructed and pooling.
The plan is to dig down further and mount a vertical dpc to the wall and then reconstruct, but I'm concerned that this water is just going to be forced elsewhere, under the paving and into the foundations another way. Both my house and my neighbours have significant damp problems as a result of this.
I've attached a few photos of the rears of both properties. Hopefully they can fill in the gaps in my spotty explanation.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
House is a 1910s terrace with solid wall construction - no dpc present. Water ingress was identified from a garden wall that abuts the rear of the house. Took the coping stone out at the top and the wall was soaked, render just fell away. We also had a great deal of vegetation growing in it with roots more than 3 metres deep into the wall.
So far we've dismantled the wall down to just below external ground level and it looks like water is draining from the neighbours garden into the wall in addition to any rain that lands on it directly. Cheekilly left a hose pipe running for a few minutes just over the wall of the property. An hour or so later water started coming through where we'd deconstructed and pooling.
The plan is to dig down further and mount a vertical dpc to the wall and then reconstruct, but I'm concerned that this water is just going to be forced elsewhere, under the paving and into the foundations another way. Both my house and my neighbours have significant damp problems as a result of this.
I've attached a few photos of the rears of both properties. Hopefully they can fill in the gaps in my spotty explanation.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.