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Thankyou for the useful advise stuart45. No actualy the plaster doesnt sound hollow in fact it is supriingly sound all over the affected area.

Thankyou so much for all the very helpful suggestions . If the hydgroscopic salts are causing the probelm, how would you go about rectifing this? We havent contacted the suveyor who did the home buyers report as we didnt think there was any point, do you think we should? Is there any come back...

Thankyou for your reply The chimney is all stone. The new flashings around the base between the chimney and the roof look like lead. The new cement is just around the pot on the top. What is a tray please? The rain cap is perched on the top with a gap for ventilation Yes, It was newly...

Hi All. We moved into an very old stone house last June and after a week or two noticed a few small damp/wet patches on the plastered and emulsioned bedroom wall along the line of the chimney breast. The chimney has the oil fired central heating flue running inside it. The wet patches continued...