Judym
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I have actually just been reading an old post on this subject which has given me comfort.
For background we bought a property that was once part of a large 1780 built house. The majority of our house was demolished in 1900 to allow a bridge to be widened and rebuilt.
When we bought the house we were aware of a very wet wall in the front ground floor room. Cutting a long story short we eventually found that the bricked up fireplace was connected to next doors disused chimney!
Sending a drone up showed the top of the chimney in a very poor state, sunken with huge cracks and clearly the cause of the water egress.
This was fixed about 6 weeks ago but you can still see the wet marks on our walls. It had been like this for decades I suspect so bricks have been repeatedly drenched for many years so I assume it will take a long time to dry.
My current question is, having previously re-plastered the wall thinking we’d sorted the problem, would it be wise to now hack off the plaster and get back to brick to help the wall dry out?
A hole has been created into the chimney to allow that to breathe.
Thanks all advise welcome.

For background we bought a property that was once part of a large 1780 built house. The majority of our house was demolished in 1900 to allow a bridge to be widened and rebuilt.
When we bought the house we were aware of a very wet wall in the front ground floor room. Cutting a long story short we eventually found that the bricked up fireplace was connected to next doors disused chimney!
Sending a drone up showed the top of the chimney in a very poor state, sunken with huge cracks and clearly the cause of the water egress.
This was fixed about 6 weeks ago but you can still see the wet marks on our walls. It had been like this for decades I suspect so bricks have been repeatedly drenched for many years so I assume it will take a long time to dry.
My current question is, having previously re-plastered the wall thinking we’d sorted the problem, would it be wise to now hack off the plaster and get back to brick to help the wall dry out?
A hole has been created into the chimney to allow that to breathe.
Thanks all advise welcome.
