The floor joists and floor boards at front door are wet. Could this be rising damp?

Rising dampness is the result of capillary activity and therefore water droplets or free surface water NEVER occur, and water CANNOT run or collect at the base of a wall or on the floor in pools as the result of rising dampness. If free surface water is present it is almost certainly the result of severe condensation, severe water penetration or a leak - not rising damp. Water ingress (above or below ground level) covers a multitude of problems, such as rainwater ingress through masonry, defects in floor/wall junctions, defects around windows, cills and doors, lateral penetration diffusing through masonry directly from the ground (sometimes under considerable hydrostatic pressure), and in fact many more possibilities. Before rising damp remedial works are installed, a full gravimetric moisture profile should be taken, to include total, hygroscopic and capillary moisture contents giving a precise and accurate evaluation. On the information you've given it is highly improbable that 'wet' here is being caused by rising damp. But as just stated, a full moisture profile is what is needed, not guesswork.

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