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Right people who know, talk to me about damp victorian terraced house basements. We have a 'standard' basement that runs under the hallway with the boundary wall to one side and a shoulder height wall on the inside over which you can see soil/rubble and the void below the dining/livingroom. Pic attached is from when we bought it, previous owner used it and had a tumble dryer and dehumidifier down there. The floor is concrete under the matt.
With the recent heavy rain/floods, we had water seeping in where the wall meets the floor. Not flooding in, but we mopped up at least 4 buckets full. Sections of the bricks along the bottom are still wet, even after 2 weeks of heat, air movers and a dehumidifier.
Is there anything that can be done to avoid it happening in the future or is 'sealing' the bottom half of the basement just sending the water elsewhere into more problematic places?