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 […]
Ha! passed my paragliding Pilot rating!
23 Dec 10 by
Just finished for Christmas and opened the post at home. I am now officially, full pilot rated. This means that I can legally leave the hills and fly cross country. In spring, I may find myself riding a thermal to cloud base again. This time I’ll be going ‘over the back’. I’m so excited and […]
Internal vertical DPM’s used in existing buildings to keep out damp; ventilate behind or not?
08 Dec 10 by
Using some form of vertical barrier to hide damp has been around for a long time. Many walls in old schools and churches still retain the dado rails and match boarded linings at their base. Recently, dimpled profile membranes, made by Newton, Delta, Oldroyd and Platon have really expanded into this market. The method involves […]