If the stringer is un level water can travel a ways and even wind up at the chimney.
Water running down chimney breast in attic.
Water could get into the attic or above your ceiling and either drip to the floor or roll along the stringer the long piece of wood that spaces out the roof trusses and runs the length of your house.
Is there any way water could still be getting down the flue due to gaps on cap.
The chimney crown covers the top of the chimney to help protect it from the elements.
Further diagnostic inspection is needed.
Broken or blocked gutters can cause rainwater to filter and collect in unwanted areas causing water ingress and damp in your chimney.
Efflorescence on a chimney might be just cosmetic as wind blown rain wets the chimney sides and leaches out mineral salts which remain white on the masonry surface of the chimney.
But efflorescence might also mean that water is running inside of the chimney flue or chimney structure.
Well the salts accumulated on the roof timbers are there due to years of tiny water ingress and condensation on the underside of the roof slates.
1 water runs down the flue.
Repeated wetting and evaporation has concentrated those seen here.
Every step has decrease the amount of water but i can t get that last bit.
This runs down and wets the timber leaving minerals they dissolved along the way.
This portion of the chimney prevents water from entering the flue but also prevents wear and tear on the masonry.
I still have a small bit a water coming down during occasional heavy wind and driving rain.
If you have a broken gutter in heavy downpours water can run down the face of a wall and seep into any splits or cracks in mortar presenting as damp in your chimney breast.
It hangs over and down about 2 inches off the top of the flue.
Building faults that can cause chimney damp damp patches on the chimney breast brown or yellow marks on the walls and ceilings surrounding the chimney often point to damage caused by a water leak or building faults such as inadequate guttering missing roof tiles poor flashing details and absorbent masonry.
More on this later.
This can manifest in a number of ways such as.
