On 10 Feb, 21:55, "keith_765" wrote:
"newshound" wrote in message

... Sounds more like a job for proper lead flashing.

That's the line I was thinking of. If its raining in on an abutment wall,
its usually soaker's and flashing wants re newing. The other cause might be
the joints between the copings need re pointing. What I cant understand is
theses "cementskews" ?.

....apologies, it seems that skews might be a scottish term - just
found a definition given he
http://www.trp.dundee.ac.uk/research/glossary/skew.html
so i guess it's really the 'mortar fillet' that they were referring
to...