They have some LIMITED grace time to move their stuff and so far they are being respectful with it.
And that has me thinking this is far beyond my experience.
Mortar will erode away over time. It's the softest part of a brick wall. And of course as soon as you get a hole big enough to let water through, the flow exacerbates the erosion.
Our house it two layers of brick because that's how they built things in 1913. We did a ton of work on reinforcing the mortar on the inside layer when we tore out the original lathe and plaster walls. But we didn't do it as much on the outside layer.
Now the kitchen is technically on the outside of the main part of the house so external to that double layer of brick. So because the outside mortar started to give out, water was able to flow down in between those two layers - entered through the external layer at the top and came right back out again through the "external" layer at the bottom. That specific section where the main part of the building meets the extension has been where the water comes in since we bought the place, and now we know why.
The good news is it's the only place where water came in, so it means the other waterproofing work he did was solid.
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They have some LIMITED grace time to move their stuff and so far they are being respectful with it.
And that has me thinking this is far beyond my experience.
Mortar will erode away over time. It's the softest part of a brick wall. And of course as soon as you get a hole big enough to let water through, the flow exacerbates the erosion.
Our house it two layers of brick because that's how they built things in 1913. We did a ton of work on reinforcing the mortar on the inside layer when we tore out the original lathe and plaster walls. But we didn't do it as much on the outside layer.
Now the kitchen is technically on the outside of the main part of the house so external to that double layer of brick. So because the outside mortar started to give out, water was able to flow down in between those two layers - entered through the external layer at the top and came right back out again through the "external" layer at the bottom. That specific section where the main part of the building meets the extension has been where the water comes in since we bought the place, and now we know why.
The good news is it's the only place where water came in, so it means the other waterproofing work he did was solid.