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I really do appreciate all these responses by the way, I am just trying to make sense of this as I have had so much conflicting advice, and we had no issues before we went away (and the capping started breaking off). The roofer was 'reputable', local and 25 years trading and assured me his work...

Fully understand, but it has been that way for decades and not our choice. The patches are only in the last year or so after the existing capping essentially broke away in the previous few years. Also, taking it down would be something the neighbours would have to agree to? it would then need...

I just popped up a pic of the chimney stack :)

Thanks for responding Woody. I am puzzled why this is always the same place, I would suspect continuous water penetration would start to manifest repeatedly rather than the same sized patch in the same place? As for flue, I am not sure what you mean. there is no chimney breast where the damp...

Sorry to repeat this, I already posted about this a few months ago but now have a better idea of what is going on. In a nutshell, chimney capping needed attention years ago but we have lived overseas so there has been at least 4 years of water penetration into one chimney. The chimney breast...

Salts are my thought here especially as these are on or near to the site of the old chimney back , I assume you mean drawn out by the humidity and the increased damp air after rain rather than by the dehumidifier? my idea is that these are only evident now as water has repeatedly got in the...

The two pics on the left are from two days ago after a few days of heavy rain, the pic on the right is after just one night of using a dehumidifier in the room (and it hasn't rained for the last two days). It has been suggested that penetrating water would leave stains down the wall/on the...

Asking here as this has come from looking into roof repair and/or replacement so trying to ascertain if I do need to deal with the roof. We have lived in our house (a 1930's semi) for over 25 years with no problem. We moved to Thailand for a few years and when we got back we saw there was damage...