10 AUGUST 1912, Page 16

DAMP HOUSES AND SMALL GARDENS.

[To THE EDITOR 0/ THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—On recent occasions I have noticed that garden houses are often damper than those without small gardens in front, and it has occurred to me that the rain falling spreads, and as it cannot come up through the flagged footpath to the road- way it eventually runs to the foundation, and, by the heat of the house, is drawn inside. In this case a house with a garden is a disadvantage instead of an advantage to the occupier. This might be remedied if the ground in front was first cemented with a fall to the street and a foot or eighteen inches of soil put on top. I wonder if many of your readers have had similar trouble with their small gardens.—I am, Sir,