I worked on my first remedial cavity wall tie installation job in the summer of 1984. It was a domestic house in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. The detached house was brick, built with black ash mortar. A Structural Engineer had noticed some slight bulging of the wall and suspected wall tie corrosion was at work. Without […]
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Damp. The (very), basic guide. Part 2
15 Feb 11 by
Before reading this, it may help to look at the preamble in part 1. Part 2 moves on from damp visible as mould on clothes, walls and ceilings and goes onto damp coming into the property from outside the house. Specialists and surveyors refer to this as ‘Penetrating damp’. Of course this means the damp […]
Damp. The (very), basic guide. Part 1
06 Feb 11 by
As a damp specialist I get asked about damp all the time. So this post is the start of a short series of plain English articles for ‘normal’ people – not surveyors or other property professionals. To keep things simple, we need to think first about how to limit ourselves to damp which we all […]
Electrical moisture meters – some basics.
29 Jan 11 by
I love my moisture meter. The one I use most of the time is a General Electric MMS. This is a multi function unit, with conductivity and radio frequency mode. It also has air temperature, humidity and surface temperature modes, with firmware that calculates dew points. Data can be saved and downloaded to a PC […]