My family own a row of terrace houses, 2 up 2 down layout. Each house has a cellar under the kitchen. Cellar has an arched roof and kitchen has a concrete floor.
The cellars get wet which is not un-espected. I went down there recently and virtually all of the odd timbers that were down there, even those that were
5 foot off the ground were soaking wet.Had a couple of damp specialists in, bot suggested different things but it's my opinion that most of the problem lies with the lack of ventilation and air flow. In one particular cellar there's had been 1 air brick in it which had been covered up with a pipe.
Would it be advisable to install more air bricks? I thought it would help a lot if we installed at least 3 more air bricks per cellar on the outside wall, and even consider putting them between the cellars.
There's virtually no air getting in there at the moment so nothing can dry out. Is ventilation the way to go? and can you ever put in too many air bricks?