The chemical damp course would be part of the solution, (if, and that is a big 'if', it was correctly installed), and hadn't been bridged by the layers of render and the slates.
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The chemical damp course would be part of the solution, (if, and that is a big 'if', it was correctly installed), and hadn't been bridged by the layers of render and the slates.