Repointing Heritage Brickwork
Repointing Heritage Brickwork We rarely see repointing done well in standard 10mm mortar joints so imagine what we find when encountering thin joint construction or gauged brickwork with joints of [...]
Survey on Rare Timber Framed House
I was asked to carry out a survey on a fascinating building this week, a very rare 8 bedroomed timber framed building. I'm told that there are only two of [...]
Damp Training for Chartered Professionals & Undergraduates
Why chartered building professionals need their own supplementary damp qualification. We delivered another 4 hour lecture (Damp Training) to undergraduates at Coventry University on November 23rd to supplement their academic [...]
New Blog: Structural Assessment of Freestanding Walls
We've had to assess structural integrity of two freestanding walls recently, the first was relatively straightforward and involved a resident who reversed their car into the boundary wall surrounding his [...]
New Blog: EWI Failure
A Case of Pillowing or Mattressing We were recently asked to look at an EWI failure for a potential client. This was a homeowner who had spent £15k on having [...]
Does a Physical Damp Proof Course Fail?
Building Defect Analysis Blog Why DPC Injection Work is Rarely Required. The damp proofing industry in the UK commonly promote two statements that are fundamental to this industry. Firstly, they [...]