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Damp work, from diagnosis to repair
Six kinds of job for houses, flats and cellars across Stafford and mid Staffordshire. Each page explains what the work involves, when it is the right answer and when it is not.
Arrange a damp survey
Tell us where the property is and what you can see. We call back to talk it through.
Damp in walls and rooms
Four kinds of work for walls and rooms. A survey comes first whenever the cause is in doubt, which is often: the tide mark that looks like rising damp is often a bridged damp-proof course or a leaking gutter, and the black spots in a bedroom corner are almost always condensation.
Damp surveys
A survey that works out where the water is coming from, outside and in, before anyone mentions treatment.
Rising damp treatment
Ground moisture proved with samples first, then bridged damp courses cleared or a certified injection fitted where the evidence calls for it.
Penetrating damp repairs
Rain finding its way through walls, chimneys or tired pointing, traced back to the fault outside and repaired before plaster goes back.
Condensation and mould
Black spots and streaming windows traced to humidity, cold surfaces and stale air, then cured with ventilation and heating rather than chemicals.
Timber, cellars and basements
Below the floorboards and below ground. Rot and beetle attack follow wet timber, so we find the water before treating the wood; cellars and basements are waterproofed to the British Standard written for them.
Woodworm and rot treatment
Woodworm, wet rot and dry rot identified properly, live or long dead, with the damp behind them fixed before any timber is treated.
Cellar and basement tanking
Cellar and basement waterproofing designed to BS 8102, matched to whether the space will hold storage or become a room.
Rather we phoned you?
Leave a name, a number and the postcode of the property. A line about what the damp is doing helps. Or phone 01785 335365.