Originally Posted by
bikemike73
First of all, I would get a dehumidifier as others have stated.
Then I would get the property deed plans to see if the neighbor built onto your land. You stated he built a wall touching your wall.**********
This is wrong for so many reasons.
Once you have the property plan showing the property line , then you can take action.
Being nice of course. Nobody likes to take down a wall, or any other construction they think is ok.
Check with your city/town you live in as well. Where I live, there has to be at least 6 feet away from property unless approved by neighbor.
This could be quite a process.....but in the meantime....get a BIG dehumidifier !!!
Good Luck
My house is built between 2 other houses. So I share 2 walls with 2 different neighbours. The patios were separated by a low wall, but at some time the previous owner of my house, made his half of the wall taller and built a garage and left ugly bricks visible on the outside of the neighbour patio. My neighbour, when he got tired of the ugly sight, built a parallel wall against these bricks on his patio and made it more aesthetically pleasing. Problem is that this wall doesn't reach the top of my wall and seems it's not well sealed against it (or sealing has degraded over time, IDK as I've only been living here for 4 months), so water is flowing between both walls. Not a huge problem for him, as his wall is outside, but as I've said, on my side there's the garage.
I have a dehumidifier that I sometimes use on the cellar when humidity gets too high there, but the cellar is 25m2 and is not ventilated. The garage has some ventilation through a unused chimney, but it's 75m2, so I would need a beast of a dehumidifier and, since it's not really insulated, I think I'll be fighting against the impossible.