Building defects database - Rising damp: drains

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Cracking to a ceramic drainage gully. In this case the defect was actually causing rising damp! Water was seeping into masonry adjacent to the defective gully, and then migrating up the wall above. As the leak was happening just below ground level the damp problem in the wall arguably falls into the 'rising damp' category. The solution, however, requires a gully replacement - not a chemical DPC insertion, as this would just force the water to come out elsewhere.