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managed to get a picture of the back of the stack taken from next door's vellum window. You can see our house is ago 5 courses higher but not sure if the image shows any obvious signs why damp would be getting in?

So this area highlighted here could be causing the problem?

Does that not count as a double row? I think the strip of slate showing is a larger 'double width' slate if that makes sense.

what does that mean exactly?

Hi Catlad, thanks for response and sorry for the late reply, only just got chance to take the pics. Here's some pictures of the guttering behind the stack and another pic of the internal chimney after heavy rainfall

Yes, damp patches were appearing on both stacks at that end of the room. There is one stack at the front and one at the rear... the other side of the room (i.e. the side attached to the other neighbours house) is fine. The damp patch at the front of the property appeared to be cured after the...

Hi Tony, I thought this also so I checked it and it looks fine. All new lead work, re-pointed, doesn't look like this is the cause of the problem. Could water be getting in further up the stack and channeling down? Makes no sense.

Thanks for the response, I can't get any pics now as it's dark although the other side of the house is not an issue. The problem is just at the side where the neighbours house sits 4/5 courses lower. This may not have anything to do with the problem, I was just mentioning it so you know what's...

Hi all, We moved into a victorian mid terrace house a couple of years ago and had some damp patches appearing in the attic bedroom around the chimney breast areas at each side of the room. After getting the roof patched up here and there we finally decided to bite the bullet and get a...