WIRRAL · MERSEYSIDE · CHESHIRE
Black spot mould in corners, behind furniture and on window reveals is usually condensation: moisture made inside the house meeting a surface cold enough to condense on. It is a ventilation problem, not a masonry one, and no damp proof course will fix it.
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EXPERIENCE
38+ years in the trade
GUARANTEE
30 years on all damp work
QUOTES
Free, in writing, after a survey
INSURANCE
£1m public liability
WHAT IT IS
Moisture generated inside the building condensing on cold surfaces. We assess where the humid air comes from and where it currently goes, then specify extraction, background ventilation or insulation. No chemical damp treatment is appropriate for condensation, and we will say so if that is what you have.
MECHANISM 03
Moisture produced inside the building meeting a surface cold enough for it to condense on. A ventilation problem, not a masonry one.
SIGNATURE
Black spot mould in corners, behind furniture and on window reveals. Markedly worse through winter.
SIGNS
Points towards moisture generated inside the building condensing on cold surfaces. That is a ventilation and heating problem. No damp proof course will fix it, and a chemical treatment specified for it is money spent on the wrong wall.
Tick the twelve signs against your wall →Reading one for another is why damp comes back after it has been "fixed". The survey comes first, and it decides everything after it.
QUESTIONS
It will manage condensation while it is running. It does nothing about water entering through masonry, and it will not dry a wall that is being resupplied with moisture from the ground or from outside.
Probably not. Rising damp is diagnosed far more often than it occurs. Condensation and penetrating damp account for a large share of what gets treated as rising damp, and both are repaired differently. That is the whole reason we survey before quoting.
Quotes are free. We look at the property, establish the mechanism, and price the repair before anything is booked in.
WHERE
Based in Heswall, working across the Wirral, Cheshire, Merseyside, Flintshire and into Greater Manchester. Forty miles is the limit. Anywhere inside that, ask.
MOST JOBS
Heswall, Neston, Parkgate, Willaston, West Kirby, Bebington, Birkenhead, Wallasey, Ellesmere Port and Chester. Same-week surveys as a rule.
ALSO COVERED
Liverpool, Southport, Runcorn, Warrington, Northwich, Stockport, Manchester and Macclesfield. Surveys booked around jobs already running nearby.
ALSO COVERED
Mold, Flint, Connah’s Quay, Holywell, Buckley, Wrexham and Rhyl. Surveys booked around jobs already running nearby.
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CONTACT
Quickest route is WhatsApp with a photograph of the affected wall and, if you can, one of the outside face of the same wall. That is often enough for an initial view before a survey is booked.