Ste Raw

Thanks for the reply Mike, I appreciate your time. When CIGA came the pointing scratched out of the knick so easily. The colour of the pointing were dark grey which to a Lehman like me is wrong. After the thermabead were sucked out it took another 6 week to change colour to the usual light grey. Will the integrity of the pointing be ok if it's took 8 months to dry?

Howdy all. Been having horrific problems with damp on a 24 year semi detached brick house. There were damp circles in the master bedroom, bathroom and living room. I got a local builder in, he stated the problem were the pointing, previously I got fascia & soffits done, he stated the oilcloth were falling apart so we got the house re-roofed (10/06/23) at the same time as the pointing so to make sure the damp would be rectified. The torrential rain of Christmas 2023 came, our house were wet through again! Long story cut short found out that our problems were the cavity wall insulation had failed like many on our estate. We got it extracted out ourselves after many arguments with the inept CIGA who blamed our problems on the new pointing after the rep scraped it and it came off like it were chocolate. Finally the pointing dried out....will it be ok after being wet with a charcoal colour for 8 months? It's gone a light grey colour. I didn't want to start hacking at it to see if it's set. Thanks for any replies Stephen