Where we work
What we find, where.
English building stock is regional. So is the way it fails.
Victorian terraces and converted basements
Solid stock-brick walls, tanked basement conversions with failed membranes, sunken lightwells holding water against the wall. Subsidence-linked cracking on clay soil is often confused with damp, and the two need telling apart before anyone specifies a fix.
Millstone grit terraces and cellars
Dense gritstone and brick back-to-backs with unlined cellars prone to rising damp. High rainfall drives penetrating damp through solid walls, and corroded wall ties are a recurring finding in interwar cavity semis.
Mixed brick stock, cavity and solid
Victorian solid-wall terraces alongside 1930s cavity semis. Bridged cavities from a raised patio or render, blocked weep holes, and flat-roof extensions prone to penetrating damp at the junction with the main wall.
Stone terraces, exposed hillside villages
Yorkshire stone and sandstone terraces on exposed hillside positions, taking driven rain on the weather gable. Failed pointing on exposed elevations and condensation in poorly ventilated loft conversions are the recurring finds.
Cotswold stone and lime-built walls
Soft limestone walls built to breathe, routinely sealed by cement render and modern repointing that traps moisture in instead of out. High exposure on coastal Devon and Cornwall properties, and damp at the eaves where a thatched roof meets the wall head.
Flint, clay lump and timber frame
Flint and clay-lump construction with moisture behaviour that doesn't match a standard brick wall. Timber-framed buildings with wattle-and-daub infill prone to damp at sill level, and Fenland's high water table affecting sub-floor ventilation.
Towns we cover
- London
- Manchester
- Birmingham
- Leeds
- Liverpool
- Sheffield
- Bristol
- Newcastle
- Nottingham
- Leicester
- Coventry
- Bradford
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Wolverhampton
- Plymouth
- Derby
- Reading
- Brighton
- York
- Oxford
- Cambridge
- Southampton
- Exeter
- Norwich
- Ipswich
- Carlisle