Ever had your cellar tanked? How about your basement? Wine cellar?…..garage? I used to do ‘tanking’ years ago, all over Yorkshire. Now of course I ‘do’ basement waterproofing of type A or C. I enjoyed tanking; doing it and reading about it and talking about it too. From Hebden Bridge to Barnsley; Leeds to Harrogate…and […]
Electrical Moisture meters in building surveys; unnecessary? or Essential?
05 Dec 10 by
Every surveyor I’ve ever met owns an electrical moisture meter. It makes me think; what did surveyors do before these arrived? The short answer is that they used their eyes. Were their survey reports wrong as a result? I doubt it. So what is the point of these expensive and maligned gadgets? To answer this […]
The imaginary world of the Rising Damp myth mongers and why they can never accept the truth….
27 Nov 10 by
‘Rising damp’ used to be free of contention; it was there or it wasn’t. Nowadays there are some who say it is never there…..and it never was there. How can this have happened? Were all those who thought it existed wrong? Are those who say that Rising damp “is as rare as rocking horse shit”, […]
Positive Input Ventilation as a condensation control: Case study in York: 2…the data:
25 Nov 10 by
As I was saying in my last article on this subject, anecdotal evidence for the benefits of PIV’s is good. When I returned to the bungalow in York, last Monday morning it was business as usual; “This is a different house” exclaimed my client “The stuffy feel has gone and you can just tell it’s […]