Your house needs something to protect the outside walls, something that normal masonry paint will not provide, but protection from WHAT exactly? We look at why most homes don’t have sufficient protection on the exterior walls, we look at what your home needs protecting FROM, and we suggest ways to add proection to your...
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damp can ruin your home, inside and outside but one application of a never paint again wall coating gets rid of all damp.
How to cope with floods and what to do if your home is flooded.
HOW TO COPE IF YOUR HOME IS FLOODED, an original article by Guy Alexander Bell. The winter has seen extreme weather conditions across much of the world. AT the time of writing, there have been several recent bad floods in England, southern and northern Spain, Madeira, Germany, England, Italy, France, Chile, USA, to name...
Continue readingTop tips to diagnose and cure damp in the home, and what to do about it.
Damp, wet walls, mould and mildew are a common issue in UK houses due to the exceptionally wet and wintry climate Great Britain “enjoys” for much of the year. Here are some top tips on how to spot damp and how to cure it for good, with some practical and helpful advice from property...
Continue readingIs my home environment healthy or not? Your home may be harming you
We like to think of our homes as a sanctuary, a place of safety away from the stresses and strains of modern life, but are we really that safe and secure at home? Are the b*stards out to get us? Well maybe not, but there are plenty of everyday things around the home that...
Continue reading8 major regional Newspapers awarded our workers the title of Mould Experts!
It’s amazing, the power of kindness. This week, out of absolutely nowhere, we appeared in EIGHT separate regional newspapers, all because we helped someone out online, a lady whose home was absolutely riddled with damp and mould. The story which originally ran in the Plymouth Herald told of a single mother, down on her...
Continue readingGood boy! The amazing and talented dogs who sniff out damp and dry rot in buildings
Dry rot, damp, mould and other horrors can ruin a home, especially an older, or even historic building. Over the years many methods and tricks have been tried out to locate dry rot in houses, but as the damage is often hidden, how do you find dry rot without ripping the place apart? Step...
Continue readingLeafy Living: The Pro’s and Con’s of living in a tree-lined street
Tree-lined streets can be found across the country, in towns, cities and villages, but is living in a verdant suburb all it’s cracked up to be? Is it the good life? We look at the pro’s and con’s of “leafy living” and whether a street flanked by greenery, urban or rural, can be a...
Continue readingOutside house painting, an example in County Durham
People choose to have us paint their home for a variety of reasons, and more often than not, it’s because the outside of their property needs far more than just a simple lick of paint! Does your house need more than your local painter and decorator is willing to take on? Does the property...
Continue readingOur waterproof wall coatings are used by major UK house builders!
If your home is less than 15 years old it shouldn’t have damp but many newer properties do suffer from damp and mould. Our damp proof house coating system is used by major UK house builders homes specifically to treat newer homes that have succumbed to damp damage. All newer homes have cavity walls...
Continue readingHow to deal with dry rot and wet rot timber damage in your home
If you have ever bought a house before, you will know the importance of having a survey, but what if the report finds wet rot or dry rot? What is it? How can it be dealt with? We, as a company, only really deal with damp in masonry, but we often get asked about...
Continue readingMisconceptions as to what does and does not cure damp
We often get asked to cure damp and apply one of our durable Exterior wall coatings, which are long life, highly durable paints which are applied on to the walls of your house by a spray machine. We thought we would write a bit about how we find and cure damp, some of the...
Continue readingHow to spot damp in your house, and what to do about it
We show you how to identify and spot damp in your house, and also what to do about it. Damp proofing the walls of your house will protect the structure and the things inside your home, but will also save you and your family members a lot of hassle and money in the longer...
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