Drainage

The house has had some damp issues in the lower apt. It seems that over the years the earth on the side of the house has been allowed to pile up until it covered about 12 inches of the wall. The drain pipe for half the roof also dumps into that same mess and, inevitably, soaks into the cement block wall.

I dug it out and we installed a pipe to keep things drier

Pre-pipe - not the way to keep the walls dry