Tapco HomeDry Services are qualified damp surveyors (CRDS) and have many years experience diagnosing damp in buildings.

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Symptoms

Rising damp normally occurs in properties which either have not been built with a damp proof course (Built pre 1875) or where the damp course has failed. The most obvious signs that you have a problem are brown staining on the wall, peeling wall paper and plaster that feels damp and cold to the touch. Rising damp can affect any external or internal wall that is in contact with the ground as damp rises from the soil by capillary action. It does not normally rise above 1 metre although it is possible in extreme conditions to rise to a height of 1.5 metres. In many cases skirting timbers and sometimes timber floors, which are in contact with the wall, will decay and brickwork can deteriorate causing costly damage and devaluing your property.

Assessment

Tapco HomeDry Services are qualified damp surveyors (CRDS) and have many years experience diagnosing damp in buildings. We will advise you of our findings, which will be set out in our detailed written report. These will be accompanied by our recommendations and an estimate to carry out the treatment, together with our sketch plan and full details of all aspects of the work.

Our operatives also have many years experience in this field and we only use the safest and most up to date materials www.sovchem.co.uk They will keep you informed of our progress for the duration of the work.

Treatment

There is no ‘quick fix’. The correct and only full proof method of treatment is disruptive. When damp rises from the ground it brings with it hygroscopic salts, which contaminate the plaster and on days of high humidity, attract more moisture from the atmosphere, creating even more damp. Our fully trained operatives will be issued with a sketch plan and will remove the skirting timbers and all of the contaminated wall plaster to the recommended heights and inject a thixotropic silane/siloxane (cream) www.sovchem.com into the base of the wall to create a new damp proof barrier. The walls are then re-plastered by us strictly in accordance with our damp proofing specification and the joinery is treated with a preservative and re-fixed, all ready for re-decorating.

Guarantee

This work is covered by our Twenty Year Guarantee. Protection by The Guarantee Protection Insurance is available.

Procedure