Last Thursday I spent some time at Leeds Metropolitan University. I was invited to give the students a lecture on damp diagnosis. The course tutor is a fan of this blog and wanted to give the students an early chance to get some information direct from the outside world, rather than via textbooks. I stayed […]
Preservation expert Damp diagnosis presentation at LHL Group’s York headquarters
03 Apr 11 by
It was off to the Chocolate Works in York last Wednesday. LHL director and building surveyor Matthew Ward invited me along to talk to the surveying team about damp diagnosis. This is part of LHL’s commitment to continuing professional development, designed to keep the surveying team on a constant learning curve. LHL Group’s York office […]
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 […]