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Homeguard’s own photos of real jobs: before, during and after.

A painted chimney-breast wall with a brown tide mark of rising damp along its lower half.
1Before: the tide mark
The same wall with its lower plaster removed, stripped back to brick.
2Stripped back to brick
The same wall with a fresh grey render coat on the lower half.
3Re-rendered
The same wall finished with new plaster and white skirting boards.
4Finished: new plaster and skirting
PicturedRising damp: one wall, four stages. Homeguard’s own photos.
A wall with a pale, salt-stained damp mark running along its base above the skirting.
1Before
The same room re-plastered, with clean walls and white skirting.
2Put right
Failed DPCSomeone else’s work, put right.
A basement lined with dimpled cavity drain membrane on the walls and floor.
1Membrane on walls and floor
The same basement with its floor laid, a timber staircase on the left.
2Floor laid
Cavity drain membraneA basement, waterproofed.
A floor taken up to show rotten joists, brick piers, rubble and pipework beneath.
1Decayed structure
A workman kneeling on new timber joists being laid across the room.
2New joists going in
The same room with the new floor boarded over.
3New floor boarded
Decayed flooringTaken up, rebuilt and boarded.
A room with freshly plastered pink walls and new timber skirting.
1Finished
Re-plasteredAfter damp treatment.

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