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  • i have been given some advice from a builder about damp in the kitchen, end of terrace london victoran brick house.

    we had a french drain thing put in gravel ditch around the back of the house when we 1st moved in. The new builder is saying the ditch is wrong and is just adding to damp problems as the kitchen has ben dug down ? ( its at ground level not a basement ) and we should have a plinth instead.

    there is so much mumbo jumbo about helping a damp house im unsure what to believe anymore. has anyone had similar ??

  • French drains are only as good as what they empty into. In London this is often clay or other unsuitable strata.

  • What does he mean by plinth?

    Ultimately, you just need to have the kitchen separated from any water.

    What does a side profile look like (as in this sort of diagram)?

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