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Dealing with Hygroscopic damp.
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Have you had the chimney breast sampled and checked for damp? A moisture meter is not really conclusive evidence.0
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Thank you to everyone for your replies.
After taking on board your advice, doing further research and talking to the contractors when they came round to quote; we have decided to strip back the walls to the bare brick work - we are doing this to approx 500mm above where we got the last damp reading.
We are then going to inject into the mortar using a recommended damp cream and then use a damp sealant such as the Polycell one recommended up thread.
Finally we will then replaster using a sand/cement mix.
It should save us a considerable amount of money so many thanks to all for your advice.0
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