Those heavy slate house name signs

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DH's mum (lovely MIL) sadly passed away last year (DFIL died a few years ago) and we've just sold her house. DH removed the slate house name sign as it was the family home since he was 2 so the house sign has sentimental value and he wants to use it for our house and have the same name which I think is a lovely idea.

However I'm a bit worried about whether it will damage our house in any way. It's one of those heavy slate ones and you have to drill into the brick work to fix it to your house. Now clearly it's been on late MIL's house for decades but our house was a real do-er upper and one of the (many) problems we had to deal with was rising damp. Am a bit concerned that it's not a good idea to drill into the bricks in case it can cause a way for damp to get in.

Am i worrying about nothing? Thanks.

It will probably very fine. Part of the way up a wall, with a damp proof course now properly inserted, won't have a detrimental effect. Our slate name plaque is fixed to the wall in Cornwall. Are there any alternative places you could mount it? Have it fixed into a wooden stand that sits in the garden near the front door?

Sorry, my op wasn't clear. I obviously know it won't cause rising damp, it's penetrating damp I'm worried about. Our 'rising damp' saga is why I'm very averse to damp!

And no, there's nowhere it can go other than on the house (and that's where DH wants it anyway).

Our slate sign is mounted on our front wall; it came with long metal dowels which were first glued onto the back of the sign (into part-drilled holes).

We drilled holes into the wall (taking care to site the sign so each hole was drilled into the centre of a brick, and not into mortar) , then filled the holes with GripFix , and pushed the little dowels in to mount the sign. The GripFix which was squished out of the holes by the dowels then formed a nice blob on the back of the sign which further served to fix the sign to the wall. I imagine it also sealed things up nicely, and I can't imagine water getting behind it.

You could use exterior clear sealant around the sign as a belt and braces approach.