Water leak help!
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1.When did you first notice this water?
2. Have you been into the loft to investigate?
3. Do you have two working appliances below in fireplace openings? The terminals are pretty dirty, one terminal is decaying.
4. Have you examined the wall surface of the chimney breast in the room below?
5. the pots are set on or set in what looks like a smooth rendered cap to the stack - two cracks can be seen and vegetation is growing around the cap ledge. The ledge could be holding water as could the flat top of the stack. Can you do a pic of the top of the cap?
6. There should be stepped flashing at the sides of the stack - perhaps there is & its been covered by the dashed render. Its difficult to tell how its been flashed.
7. A slates has been repaired.
8. looking up from below in pic 6. any signs of water penetration on the soffit?
2. Have you been into the loft to investigate?
3. Do you have two working appliances below in fireplace openings? The terminals are pretty dirty, one terminal is decaying.
4. Have you examined the wall surface of the chimney breast in the room below?
5. the pots are set on or set in what looks like a smooth rendered cap to the stack - two cracks can be seen and vegetation is growing around the cap ledge. The ledge could be holding water as could the flat top of the stack. Can you do a pic of the top of the cap?
6. There should be stepped flashing at the sides of the stack - perhaps there is & its been covered by the dashed render. Its difficult to tell how its been flashed.
7. A slates has been repaired.
8. looking up from below in pic 6. any signs of water penetration on the soffit?
Hi Ree
1 Noticed the water after after heavy rain recently when it came into our bedroom & tripped the electrics by running into the ceiling light switch but the crack in the wall has been there for a year.
2 been in the loft but it's so close to the edge of the roof Its too narrow to see.
3 The capped chimney on the right is unused & is from a covered vented fireplace in our bedroom where the crack is on the middle of 3 floors-the open chimney on the left is from an open used fire on the ground floor.
4 The wall surface on the room below is damp.
5 Will try to get a pic of top.
Lots of slates repaired as its original roof from 1907 & can see no damage behind soffit.
Thanks for your help
1 Noticed the water after after heavy rain recently when it came into our bedroom & tripped the electrics by running into the ceiling light switch but the crack in the wall has been there for a year.
2 been in the loft but it's so close to the edge of the roof Its too narrow to see.
3 The capped chimney on the right is unused & is from a covered vented fireplace in our bedroom where the crack is on the middle of 3 floors-the open chimney on the left is from an open used fire on the ground floor.
4 The wall surface on the room below is damp.
5 Will try to get a pic of top.
Lots of slates repaired as its original roof from 1907 & can see no damage behind soffit.
Thanks for your help
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I was hoping for another 100 years from it as most of the tiles are good! I just need to stop the water coming in though. Would a new roof help stop the wind tunnel in our hall as there is no felt under the slates & all the plaster has fell off!
Still waiting for a pic of the stack flaunching?
You dont have tiles you have slates.
You dont have tiles you have slates.
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