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Hi - having put in the Dryzone and some water seal on the chimney, the plaster inside is showing as 25% on my damp meter (from previous 33% as mentioned originally - been measuring same place). The boiler has now gone so has to be coming from roof, as thought. I might get the wall boarded up...

Ok, put dryzone in 3 sides of the chimney, 1 brick above the flashing. Dehumidifier doing a good job in the loft so will see if it reduces the dampness and then replaster the damaged bit. Hope it works!

Nice one, thanks for info. Easy to get up there and I have sds drill so I can easily put in dpc. This would be best done above the tiles, maybe one brick up? I'd have to stagger where it joins the roof which should be ok?

Hi all, Having a bit of trouble locating the source of a damp patch in a bedroom. Has been like this since we moved in and I thought it would've dried out by now but it hasn't. As you can see from the layout pic, the most obvious place is water coming from the chimney flashing but I've been up...

when you say 'usual for all boilers', does this include combi's? my last couple of combi boilers fired up til the thermo stopped it. (this one is the first gravity one i've taken on and will probably get replaced at some point)

strange - the Hive thing works fine but sometimes the boiler stops when the Hive is telling it to fire (normally when it's been going for a bit). is this usual behavior for these kind of boilers or maybe a problem with it?

Hi, we have a gravity fed Baxi FS 801 OF which has a dial on the front with Off/1~6 - presumably for very basic heating control. As the boiler has a thermostat connected (Hive), I'd like to disable this switch so the boiler is totally controlled by the thermo and not the dial. Sure this is a...

thanks for reply - I'll chop some of the plaster away above the door and see what's there. we are planning on either changing the doors back to windows or new doors at some point so will sort it out properly then. In the meantime, i'll see what damage is behind crack. I thought it would be...

I like Woody's comments - so far have said it'll fix itself and don't do any manual labour. sweet.

Once we found the leak, I've informed our buildings insurer. We have separate soil pipe cover so the repair was done today by them (bloke was able to use a sleeve to fix - did an excellent job, Pipe Scan). The cracks are on the original part of the house although originally, there must have...

Many thanks for responses - I'll post back after the long hot dry summer :)

the cracks are in the single story part of the front room which is around 6½m in length. here is a crude drawing of the layout and where the cracks are (the soil pipe is internal...) Hoose by braddock71 posted 12 Jan 2016 at 10:11 PM

images of the 2 cracks mentioned above... IMG_20160112_115351 by braddock71 posted 12 Jan 2016 at 11:55 AM IMG_20160112_115329 by braddock71 posted 12 Jan 2016 at 11:55 AM