Damp & timber specialists

Family-run, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex

Recent jobs, start to finish

Photos from our own jobs, taken as the work went along. Each one shows the problem, the work, and the finished room.

Rising damp

One chimney-breast wall, from tide mark to finished room.

  1. A painted chimney-breast wall with a brown tide mark of damp along the lower part
    1Before: the tide mark
  2. The same wall with the plaster stripped back to bare brick
    2Stripped back to brick
  3. The same wall with a fresh grey render coat
    3Re-rendered
  4. The same wall finished with new plaster and white skirting
    4Finished: new plaster and skirting

Failed DPC (someone else’s work)

Put right.

  1. A damp stain with white salt marks along the base of a plastered wall
    1Before
  2. The same room with smooth new plaster and clean skirting
    2After

Cavity drain membrane

A basement made dry and usable.

  1. A basement with studded membrane fixed over the walls and floor
    1Membrane in
  2. The same basement with the floor laid over the membrane, below a timber staircase
    2Floor laid

Decayed flooring

Rotten structure out, new joists in.

  1. A floor taken up, showing decayed timbers, brick piers and pipework
    1Taken up
  2. A Homeguard tradesman kneeling on new timber joists being fitted across the room
    2New joists
  3. The same room with the new floor boarded
    3Boarded

Re-plastered

A room after damp treatment.

  1. A corner of a room with fresh pink plaster and new timber skirting
    1Fresh plaster, new skirting

Worried about damp or rot?

We’ll come and look, explain what we find, and give you help and honest advice at every step.

Request a survey

or call 07500 041243