Hello
We moved into our 100 yr old mid-teraced house a few months ago.
We have just paid around £3k to have the pots on our chimney re-seated and capped. The chimney was also re-pointed and the roofer says he also checked the flashing around the chimney but it was ok. The reason we had the work done was because of damp patches on the chimney breasts in the bedrooms and also on the wall below the loft hatch which backs onto the chimney stack too. We also had some smaller damp patches on the other side of the room and he replaced the flashing down that side of the roof. He also sprayed the chimney stack with silicone sealant.
The reason for my post is that it rained heavily 2 days after he finished the work and the wall below the loft hatch was wet again. (This had pretty much dried up in recent dry weather just before he did the work altho patches on chimney breast and on other side of the room hadn't much)
The roofer came back and felt the chimney stack above the loft hatch and said it was bone dry. He's put newspaper up there now and says if it gets wet we're to call him back again so he can invetigate further. But he also said that the damp patches could also be due to a fungus which will be killed off in the cold weather. (We of course have had the heating on to try and dry out the damp!)
I have searched this site and the internet for mention of a fungus that looks like damp and can find nothing! They don't look mouldy at all ...just wet and they feel wet too. I should point out that this guy is a member of various trade organisations including NFRC.
Is he right about this fungus? How do we get rid of it?
But if it's wet/rain then what do we do next?
Many thanks in advance for your thoughs.
We moved into our 100 yr old mid-teraced house a few months ago.
We have just paid around £3k to have the pots on our chimney re-seated and capped. The chimney was also re-pointed and the roofer says he also checked the flashing around the chimney but it was ok. The reason we had the work done was because of damp patches on the chimney breasts in the bedrooms and also on the wall below the loft hatch which backs onto the chimney stack too. We also had some smaller damp patches on the other side of the room and he replaced the flashing down that side of the roof. He also sprayed the chimney stack with silicone sealant.
The reason for my post is that it rained heavily 2 days after he finished the work and the wall below the loft hatch was wet again. (This had pretty much dried up in recent dry weather just before he did the work altho patches on chimney breast and on other side of the room hadn't much)
The roofer came back and felt the chimney stack above the loft hatch and said it was bone dry. He's put newspaper up there now and says if it gets wet we're to call him back again so he can invetigate further. But he also said that the damp patches could also be due to a fungus which will be killed off in the cold weather. (We of course have had the heating on to try and dry out the damp!)
I have searched this site and the internet for mention of a fungus that looks like damp and can find nothing! They don't look mouldy at all ...just wet and they feel wet too. I should point out that this guy is a member of various trade organisations including NFRC.
Is he right about this fungus? How do we get rid of it?
But if it's wet/rain then what do we do next?
Many thanks in advance for your thoughs.