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Recent Posts:
- Property Care Association launch official CPD scheme – hurray!
- 25th aniversary newsletter is full of damp proofing,wall tie and structural repair jobs from 2011
- Damp diagnosis training to another level
- Rising damp in Yorkshire’s post war housing is often caused by construction defects and… rationing!
- Spray Foam for a grade 2 listed building in Yorkshire..good idea?
- Rising Damp – the inevitable rise of moisture through masonry.
- Lascar Data Pad review for damp diagnosis junkies.
- Leeds woodworm infestation is really just Bark Borer–see?
- Part 1 of a review of Caoimhin Connell’s presentation to the Property Care Association
- Certificated Surveyor In Remedial Treatments (CSRT); A chartered surveyor’s view.
- Federation of Master Builders training scheme – Success through Service
- Property Care Association digital media course by Jane Shepherd PR
- Damp, wall ties, waterproofing, woodworm, dry rot, wet rot,structural repairs…yes, all that and more!
- Electronic Damp/Moisture meters and foil backing; an example
- Property Care Association – short course “Introduction to Building thermography”.
- Condensation and damp workshop with The Property Care Association
- A trip around Envirovent’s Harrogate facility
- Property Care Association Northern regional meeting 2011
- Woodworm in houses–some timber survey tips.
- Damp stains on a chimney breast and adjacent ceiling – It may be salts.
- Damp Diagnosis case study; a bridged DPC in a cavity wall
- Damp and Timber CPD with ARC Engineers of Leeds
- Cavity wall tie surveys require more than a boroscope – some diligence and integrity is required!
- Masonry Water repellents have grown up
- What the hell do these moisture meter readings actually mean? or, Have I got rising damp or not?
- Wet rot and X-ray vision, with wall tie corrosion thrown in too.
- The Electrical moisture meter and salts – the pariahs of the damp surveyor?
- Rubbing salt into the wounds
- Why Yorkshire’s new houses and flats get damp and mouldy
- Structural repairs to buildings, using Cintec grouted anchors and diamond drilling methods–Part 1 The Cintec Anchor
- A visit to Cintec International’s Newport HQ
- Wet Rot Dry Rot White Rot Brown…confused? Don’t be; it’s easy really
- Toxic mould is a myth – but would you want to live here without sterilising first?
- Can you identify Dry Rot, without a fruiting body to look at? here’s one way…..snap crackle and pop.
- Common Furniture Beetle (woodworm), infestation; Quick guide for consumers and surveyors too.
- Damp problems solved “the green way” (or how to spend a pile of cash for nothing at all).
- Educating Building Surveying and architectural technologist students on damp diagnosis.
- Preservation expert Damp diagnosis presentation at LHL Group’s York headquarters
- Early season Paragliding in the lakes
- The Leeds Estate Agents, Surveyors and Valuers Association annual luncheon; a room full of winners.
- Damp. The (very) basic guide. part 3
- Customer satisfaction = joy
- Micro-drilling construction timbers. How and why it works.
- Property Care Association Thermography day.
- Cavity wall tie corrosion in Yorkshire (now getting much worse)
- Damp. The (very), basic guide. Part 2
- Damp. The (very), basic guide. Part 1
- Electrical moisture meters – some basics.
- Surveyors! Do you fancy taking part in a national study on condensation?
- Ha! passed my paragliding Pilot rating!
- Internal vertical DPM’s used in existing buildings to keep out damp; ventilate behind or not?
- Tanking: I miss you so much…..
- Electrical Moisture meters in building surveys; unnecessary? or Essential?
- Lime mortar – leave it ’till spring
- The imaginary world of the Rising Damp myth mongers and why they can never accept the truth….
- Positive Input Ventilation as a condensation control: Case study in York: 2…the data:
- A word on Relative Humidity……(in houses).
- Relax, you’re at 3000 feet…
- Positive Input Ventilation – testing in York
- Capillary active waterproofing? (for concrete).
- Mould remediation
- Guaranteed wall tie replacement – oh dear..
- Type A waterproofing to BS8102 – here’s how.
- Using a membrane behind dry-linings, as a damp-proofing method needs thought….
- Katrina
- Green Damp-proofing system seen stopping damp rising up through windows….
- Hurray! Damp Guarantees – now last forever….Guaranteed!
- Another one bites the dust (or when is a guarantee not a guarantee).
- Property Care Association Flood Remediation course July 2010
- Effect of mortar type on wall tie corrosion
- Where do all these damp and timber treatment solutions come from? Can they be relied upon?
- Doctor Eric’s paper – nails the coffin lid on the rising damp ‘myth’.
- Why are these basement conversions so bad? And, is there anything we can do about it?
- The Rising Damp myth is….a scandal; like yesterday’s MMR scare.
- What is woodworm?
- Resin repair product? Cement repair product? Which to use?
- Cheap and Easy Damp-proofing (which wont work).
- Ratio of Rising damp to condensation in rented and private housing.
- Flood remediation – CPD
- Green Damp-proofing
- There’s more to life than work – try Paragliding
- NVQ level 4 in Management
- Wall tie survey without a boroscope.
- It’s True, cavity wall tie work this bad exists and is being done again as you read….
- Property Care Association awards 2010
- How a sump and pump keeps a basement conversion dry (Type C waterproofing)
- This council house has been damp for three years – why?
- Quick wall tie survey – part 1 – The Boroscope
- Damp – but not rising damp
- Free Damp and Timber surveys – I was wrong all along.
- Cintec ties are the thing for rubble walls – see why….
- Testing time for wall ties
- Collapsed wall update.
- A damp apartment or just poor ventilation?
- Wall ties – they’re not needed are they?
- This is Type C Cavity Drain protection to BS8102
- Two days and seven damp and wall tie surveys done…it’s picking up folks.
- The house that Jack built
- Alan Pettingale pays me a visit.
- ‘Hands on’ community training centre opening day