dot and dab over soot on bricks

Wayners & Bof have the best answers. By the time you've cleaned or grinded the soot off there will be very little left to worry about, and there shouldn't be much in the way of moist air behind the boards once on anyway.
More importantly, I can see a steel upstairs, have you also removed the chimney in the attic or installed gallows brackets?, otherwise one day it might be joining you in the living room.
 
Jonathand said:
Soot contains high levels of salts that are hygroscopic. They will absorb moisture from the air, which will then travel through the dabs to the plastered surface and produce a brown/yellow stain. Just the same as when there's been rising damp, but different salts.
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It's called Bridging in the trade! Allowing water or moisture to travel from one point to another.
 
Fix 18mm batten or roof lath to the wall with plug and screws , then mark the floor and ceiling where they are then dab out to 25 mm level let the dab go off then put screws in to the lath as a second mechanical fixing
 
Jonathand said:
hi all

i've removed a chimney breast upstairs and down and have soot deposits on the walls. im dotting and dabbing the whole house so want to do the same on these walls, because i can do it quite well and i'm terrible at plastering otherwise and it's cheaper for me to D&D and then have it skimmed then have a plasterer do it all.View attachment 49929View attachment 49930

i will mechanically remove as much of the soot as possible and then...

ive read up quite a bit on line, both on this site and others and it seems my options are:
1. batten the wall - i don't want to do this as the bricks are hollow and drilling and fixing is a nightmare.
2. D&D Gypsum MF10 metal channels to the wall and screw board to these
3. render the area +300mm either side and then D&D over this

the plasterer that will be skimming to me to get some soot inhibitor, but no idea what he's talking about and can't find anything of this description online.

the MF10 channel would be easy to do but a bit pricey at £50 for 10 lengths.

where it gets tricky for me is the various suggestions for rendering i've read and knowing which i should do. coats of SBR first, slurry or no slurry, render with SBR in, Render with lime in, one coat of render or two etc. i'm a bit at sea with it all! and there are so many products out there that seem to do the same thing in terms of tanking or waterproofing.

can anyone give me some clear advice on the steps i would need to take to seal the wall via rendering prior to D&D to stop damp and staining coming through? the surface is very uneven where the tied-in bricks have been cut through, as per photos. It's a party wall, if this is relevant. the whole wall on each floor is 2.5m high and 3.1m wide. the chimney breast was 1.1m wide.

thanks in advance.
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Have you fully removed the chimney or put gallows brackets in
 
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