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What Does a Damp Survey Cost?
Damp Survey Cost A damp survey in Kent costs from £95 for a Snapshot Survey with on-site verbal advice, £195 for a Comprehensive Survey with a full written report and photographs, or £295 for a Fast-Track Survey with the report delivered within 48 hours. All surveys are carried out by Dean Webster, our CSRT and…
Listed Building Repairs – Damp Proofing Essentials
Listed building repairs for damp require a specialist approach because the materials, construction methods and planning regulations are all very different from modern properties. Any damp proofing work on a listed building must be agreed with the relevant local authority before it starts, use materials sympathetic to the original construction, and be carried out by…
Winter Damp Prevention Checklist: Protect Your Home This Season
Damp prevention beats cure. It’s especially true as the cold, dark and wet winter months creep closer. For homeowners in Kent, this is especially true. Their properties endure frequent temperature swings and moisture shifts. As temperatures drop and wet, cold weather moves in from the north, keeping your home dry becomes harder. If you ignore…
Basement Waterproofing Systems: What Kent Homeowners Need to Know
If you own a property with a basement or cellar in Kent or South East London, you’ll know that keeping below-ground spaces dry isn’t always straightforward. Between Kent’s unpredictable rainfall, mixed geology ranging from chalk to heavy clay, and the age of many local properties, basement damp issues are surprisingly common. Victorian and pre-war homes…
How to Treat Wet Rot Effectively
Timber decay can be a homeowner’s nightmare, causing both structural damage and visual discolouration in wooden features within your property. Given the right conditions, it can affect any property, but we’ve encountered many examples in the historic properties we support across Kent. One of the most common forms of wood rot is wet rot, which…
How to get rid of black mould
Getting rid of black mould in your house is no easy task. However, ensuring it doesn’t come back is even tougher.
The Best Damp Solutions
Finding the right damp solutions for your property can be a huge relief. For most people, the uncertainty causes anguish and leads to either trying a quick fix or a damp proofer who promises the world and never delivers. There are DIY damp solutions that you can attempt, and depending on the situation, they can…
Damp and Timber Reports for Houses in the UK
Our damp and timber reports are vital to our service, as they are the blueprint for what happens next. The last thing you will get from us is the suggestion of work we cannot prove the benefit of. With the UK climate adapting as a result of global warming and UK homeowners facing the challenges…
What Causes Wet Rot
Getting to the bottom of what causes Wet Rot is the start of solving the problem, and with the weather as it is right now in Britain, it’s not hard to work out. Given that this country is experiencing a typically mixed British summer, the warm weather and ongoing rain make the perfect conditions for…
