I have just finished painting my new study in my new (old) house. About a week after I finished, in the thunderous rain that we had in November, I noticed that a damp patch was appearing on the wall, with smaller ones dotted around it, all coming in from the south facing external wall.
They are slowly drying up now, and when they are completely dry, I want to go about fixing the issue. We have just had a full structural survey done on the house, so Im confident that there isn't anything massive amiss here, and looking at the external face of the wall, I can see a few bricks with cracks in them, and a few areas where bits of mortar are missing, all of which match up with the damp patches.
Is the easiest thing to just get some pre-made lime based mortar and just fill in the missing bits of mortar and the cracks on the bricks? There aren't any long cracks or holes, and the longest crack is just the height of a brick.
Olly
They are slowly drying up now, and when they are completely dry, I want to go about fixing the issue. We have just had a full structural survey done on the house, so Im confident that there isn't anything massive amiss here, and looking at the external face of the wall, I can see a few bricks with cracks in them, and a few areas where bits of mortar are missing, all of which match up with the damp patches.
Is the easiest thing to just get some pre-made lime based mortar and just fill in the missing bits of mortar and the cracks on the bricks? There aren't any long cracks or holes, and the longest crack is just the height of a brick.
Olly