Homeguard Damp & Timber Ltd, home

Recent jobs

Recent jobs

Before. After. Every step between.

Real jobs, from Homeguard’s own photos, in the order the work was done.

Rising damp

A chimney-breast wall, from tide mark to finished.

A painted chimney-breast wall with a brown tide mark of damp along the lower half, and decayed timber at the skirting.
1 Before
The same wall with the lower plaster stripped back to bare brick.
2 Stripped to brick
The same wall with a fresh grey coat of render on the lower half.
3 Re-rendered
The same wall finished with new pink plaster, new white skirting board and a wood-effect floor.
4 Finished

Failed DPC

Someone else’s work, put right.

A plastered wall with a wide band of damp staining and white salt marks along its lower half.
1 Before
The same room after treatment, with smooth new plaster and white skirting.
2 After

Cavity drain membrane

A basement, made usable.

A basement room with dimpled drainage membrane fixed across the walls and floor.
1 Membrane installed
The same basement under a staircase, with the floor laid over the membrane.
2 Floor laid

Decayed flooring

Rotten structure out, new joists in, boarded.

A floor taken up to reveal rotten timber, brick piers and pipework below.
1 Decayed
A tradesman fitting new timber joists across the open floor.
2 New joists
The same room with the new floor boarded over.
3 Boarded

Re-plastered

After damp treatment.

A corner of a room with fresh pink plaster on both walls and new timber skirting.
1 Finished

Let’s take a look.