"keith" wrote in message
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Please can you let me know what you would do here?

snip tales of woe, re leaky conservatory.


This is a common problem with conservatories built on to brick houses.
You are right in your assumption that water is penetrating the
brickwork, not through the bricks but along the tiny gapsbetween
bricks and mortar, usually in the perps. This runs down inside the
bricks until it reaches a lintel, or the damp proof tray above a
lintel, then comes out through the weep holes. If the house and
conservatory were being built as one, the dpc tray would be above the
line of the conservatory roof, so that the water would emerge above
it. You are talking quite a job to do that retrospectively but it
would sort you out. Alternatives include, repointing, rendering that
section of wall above the roof and cladding the wall with uPVC shiplap
or similar.
Richard, (also ritchieaber via google)

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