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Free Damp and Timber surveys – I was wrong all along.

07 Mar 10 by

I’ve been a damp and timber specialist for 34 years – starting work with my Dad’s old firm in 1976. I actually started surveying houses for damp and timber infestation problems in 1980.  I don’t know how many surveys I’ve done since then, but I do know that it is considerably more than 10,000 and […]

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Cintec ties are the thing for rubble walls – see why….

03 Mar 10 by

I visited site this morning where my chaps were inflating Cintec ties using Prestec grout. These ties are great for weak substrates and hollow walls.  They are particularly good for rubble filled stone, where getting a descent fix with a mechanical or resin bonded tie can be difficult or impossible. These are the smallest Cintec […]

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Testing time for wall ties

03 Mar 10 by

The interesting collapse job in Leeds is now complete.  Well, our involvement is anyway.  My lads have installed the helifix ‘starter ties’ and lateral restraints and this morning, they inflated Cintec grouted anchors installed in the rubble filled areas. The Helifix items are installed in naked brick, so swinging on them is a good test, […]

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Collapsed wall update.

22 Feb 10 by

Brick-Tie Preservation senior wall tie technician Stuart Lattimer has now started work on repairing the collapsed wall in Horsforth, Leeds. With the scaffold up, the full extent of the damage can be seen and in the video below I talk you through the proposed repairs. I’ll be on site again later this week to show […]

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A damp apartment or just poor ventilation?

15 Feb 10 by

As we are still in the depths of the ‘condensation season’ I thought I’d post up a brief video I shot today. Whilst some surveys do require some head scratching, perhaps maybe a bit of data logging and many measurements, others just need a bit of common sense. This is a typical case from Leeds, […]

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