Damp on gable end - brick removal

I'll post this agian on this page incase it's lost on the other.

Thanks all.

Wessex101 - I have access to a boroscope so I’ll have a look at the cavity trays. I’m not entirely sure what I’ll be looking at, but I’ll look it up before checking. With regards to the weepholes, is this something I could maybe add? As I recall, the builder plastered over the existing wall – we had a kitchen-diner in that space, but we took the wall down and had it all open plan. The wall was roughly where the extractor hood is. So no plasterboard was used.

^Woody^ - The eaves and guttering look in good shape. The one thing I have noticed when we get severe wind and rain (more often than not here on the Welsh coast), is that the driven rain does make it’s way through the boiler flue. This is directly above the kitchen in the loft on the gable end. It’s horizontal, so the rain comes through the boiler flue and we get some water dripping through the boiler itself. Not a huge amount, but enough to notice.

KenGMac – I’ll look into the camera advice. Anything that’ll help me pin point the locality of the issue, especially around the suspended unit, will be very useful.

I’m sure I asked this earlier, but would removing a couple bricks on the corner of the house be ok? Just enough to get a length of timer through to knock mortar off the wall ties.

Read more: http://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/damp-on-gable-end-brick-removal.450195/#ixzz3wY35n6mT
 
As Woody suggested earlier if you are going to try and pull out the insulation you have to make sure you get it all out, if you leave patches it will lead to more damp. A couple of bricks on the corners every 10 courses or so would probably be OK but you would need to open up extra holes between door/window openings and hard to reach bits. It would be a hell of a fiddly time consuming job.

There are firms that use powerful vacuum cleaners to suck it out but I've not used one so cannot vouch for their effectiveness.
 
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