13-07-12, 10:52 AM
The garage looks sound to me, and I'm pretty sure you're doing the right thing digging out the earth to the sides of the walls. Almost certainly what was happening was that water, under pressure from the soil above the d.p.c (damp proof course [assuming there is one?]) was finding its way through the wall and in to the garage. By creating a space down the side of the wall to below the line of the d.p.c. you'll have stopped that. You will need to dig out round the back and left side also I'd have thought.
Don't let anyone try and fob you off with a 'rising damp' explanation - as my structural engineer tutor at Uni told us, quite forcefully, it doesn't exist!
As for drainage from the roof you should be ok just running a pipe down the side and allow it to run away (on the left perhaps?) or, better still, in to a tank so you can water the garden with it?
It might be worth getting someone to check it's structurally sound btw.
S
Don't let anyone try and fob you off with a 'rising damp' explanation - as my structural engineer tutor at Uni told us, quite forcefully, it doesn't exist!
As for drainage from the roof you should be ok just running a pipe down the side and allow it to run away (on the left perhaps?) or, better still, in to a tank so you can water the garden with it?
It might be worth getting someone to check it's structurally sound btw.
S
Someone sent me a postcard picture of the earth. On the back it said, "Wish you were here."
Steven Wright
Steven Wright