Salt in Brickwork ?

I'm a little unclear how the salt's coming through dry-lining. Do you mean it was replastered, or have they battened it and attached plasterboard?

As far as I can tell without removing the board it has been battened and plasterboard.

The salt as far as I can tell is passing through the plasterboard and lifting the wall paper as their are some quite large chunks of salt now protruding through the wall paper.

You may need to remove the offending areas of plasterboard, including areas around as well, and reboard putting polythene between the board and the battens. It would appear that the salt has worked its way through the battens, but a layer of polythene should stop it from happening again. I know you don't want to take it all off, but I presume its not happening over all the wall is it? Very often the most severe course of action is the one that will last.

Rob Graham

It sounds like you have an ongoing damp problem which needs addressing. What's the construction of the wall, and what's on the other side of it?

Its an interior brick wall, between the hall and living room and it is dry lined on both sides.

I think you're going to have to pull off the lining on one side to see what's going on behind.

That sounds more like damp than salt.