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  • You can test if it is lime by dropping it in acetic acid / vinegar / other acid - lime fizzes, cement does nothing. It also makes a different sound that cement when you hit it with a trowel.

    Can you post more photos of the lower walls?

  • Will give it a go with vinegar.

    Current hypothesis- water drawn up between layers of render as it’s touching ground. Can’t escape through cement render, goes inside instead. We have v.mild damp at base of this wall.


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