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So I'm looking at sealing the areas around the flashing and stacks now with a sealant, and cap the chimneys separately again or potentially take down the stacks although that of course is a considerably higher cost and should follow a leak test. Does anyone have recommendations for the sealant...

Hi Harry, that's been recently replastered. Some big cracks were covered actually. It could still be the very edges where the flaunching meets the pots...I'm thinking of getting sealant applied alongside closing off the pots and adding additional flashing. Those three measures should...

Drip can't be coming from any sealed-in moisture because it happens live and real-time when it ****es down. There's an actual leak somewhere on both of them OR it's raining through the bloody pots when the wind is driving it. Given that both sides are leaky I'm tempted to suspect the pots.

Thank you. Why would they need to be ventilated if they don't have any purpose other than raining into my chimney breasts?

HI all, The pots serve ZERO function. There are no fireplaces anywhere. The only place where the 4 chimneys extend to are the 2 breasts and all they're doing is catching the bloody rain. So they could just be cemented over tbh.

Hello community, wondering if someone could help. I have two chimney breasts in my flat. There are no fireplaces underneath but 4 chimneys point to them on the roof. When it rains, they were leaking and the walls were getting wet. So we had the entire roof redone, which was rather battered, the...