HomeOwners
We’re the only damp-proofing company that offers a 50-year guarantee.
Don’t live with damp. Get rid of it for good – and make your home safe and sound.
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Not only that, but it can also be bad for your health.
And the longer you leave it, the more costly it becomes.
With constant exposure to damp, timber gradually decays – including your house’s critical structural timbers. Bricks and plaster degrade. And dangerous moulds, which release spores into the air and contribute to allergies and health problems, thrive.
Aside from the smell and ugly damp patches, these are significant issues you really don’t want to live with.
And if you ever want to sell your house, having an untreated damp problem can be very off-putting for buyers and mortgage lenders. The selling process becomes trickier and may result in a much-reduced sale price, costing you tens of thousands of pounds.
Plus, if you’re a landlord, tenants will often be entitled to rent reductions or even make potential claims against you.
That’s the bad news.
The good news is that, if they’re treated properly, damp problems can be completely eliminated.
And – if your damp problem is in a neglected basement – it’s quite possible to transform it into a new, liveable extra room in your home.
Your whole house can become a place to use and enjoy, instead of having unpleasant areas you tend to avoid.
But for this to happen, the remedial work has to be done just right.
Three vital things
Water has an amazing ability to penetrate even the slightest fault-line.
Beware!
To eliminate damp problems effectively, for many years to come, three things are vital. You need to:
Diagnose the problem accurately,
Select the correct treatment, and
Have the work done to an extremely high standard.
If any one of these three is missing, your damp problem won’t be solved.
The damp may go away temporarily – but it will inevitably return, probably much sooner than you’d expect.
In fact, wrongly-placed waterproofing can exacerbate a problem by preventing much-needed ventilation.
In other words, badly-performed work can actually make things worse!
Watch out for sub-standard repairs
If you don’t get an accurate diagnosis, you can easily apply the wrong remedy – which will fail, or make things worse.
And if you don’t get the work done to a very high standard, using the right materials, then damp can come back all too soon.
That’s why you need experienced specialists who take the time – and have the skills and knowledge – to get things right.
Let me be frank. Dampcoursing Ltd may not be the cheapest company around.
You can find other companies who’ll offer surveys for free, and quote cheaper prices for carrying out what looks like the same the work. It’s all very appealing. But it comes at a big cost to you.
At the first vital step of identifying your problem, you may not get a qualified surveyor at all – but instead a completely unqualified employee, who simply gets the sign-off from someone at HQ with the relevant letters after their name.
Not a good start.
Then, based on a superficial survey, you may well be recommended the wrong treatment, unsuitable for your particular problem. And most likely the work will be done in haste, by workers lacking the necessary skills and experience for what is inescapably a specialist task.
Essentially it tends to be a rush job by under-qualified people, and it’s very easy for things to go wrong. Not necessarily immediately. But the consequences of sub-standard work will come back to bite you sooner or later.
We don’t operate like that at all.
What We Do
How to get started
If you’d like us to help with your damp problem, the first step is to arrange for one of our surveyors to visit. Our surveyor will come to your property and do a thorough investigation. This will take from 30 minutes to an hour or so, depending on the nature of the problem. We will produce a full report of their findings. This usually takes a day or two to complete, and is emailed to you immediately. The report explains your damp problem and its causes, includes a plan of the damp areas, recommends the proposed treatment for fixing it, and provides you with a quotation for doing the work. This takes some time, and involves our professional expertise. For this reason we do make a charge for the survey and report. Our price is £125.00 + VAT. Not much when you consider all the benefits of getting an expert diagnosis, and the potential costs you’ll save by avoiding unnecessary works and wrong treatments. And this cost is fully refunded to you if you instruct us to go ahead with any of our proposals.
