Damp Proofing Coalville

Damp Proofing Coalville Leicestershire (LE67): It isn't just the fact that problems with damp look unsightly, they can also induce health issues and lead to dangerous structural damages. If not resolved immediately, the more serious problems can cost you thousands of pounds to repair, and might be hard to spot beneath damp patches and peeling wallpaper. If you've got a problem such as this there is very little that you can do to solve it yourself, and the best course of action is to get in touch with an experienced Coalville damp proofing company to undertake a thorough inspection and suggest realistic solutions.

In Coalville homes there are 3 key problem areas of how damp can affect your property:

PENETRATING DAMP

Penetrating damp in buildings can be caused by numerous external factors for example: cracks in brickwork, defective guttering, broken roof tiles and cavity wall problems. Inside your Coalville home, penetrating damp can result from overflowing basins or bathtubs, cracked shower trays and burst or leaking pipes. If left to continue leaking these factors enable water to soak into the walls and woodwork, which over time lead to blistering or broken plaster, damp dark patches on walls and peeling paintwork.

Wet rot can occur in the timbers of your roof if you have a leaky roof that is neglected for quite some time. Though it's lucky that wet rot does not have an impact on brickwork, in the worst case, you may need to replace the whole roof (very expensive!) if your roof timbers become unsound structurally. An unfamiliar musty smell, a "spongy" feel to your rafters and signs of black fungus, could all indicate the existence of wet rot.

Preventative maintenance can be fairly basic, such as cleaning and checking your roof and gutters for leaks, repointing brickwork and inspecting pipework for leaks. A certified Coalville damp proof specialist will check all these areas to help prevent any further problems, as part of fixing your dampness issues.

CONDENSATION

Super easy to identify and a contributing factor to damp in a lot of Coalville homes, condensation is very common. Minute droplets of water appear on colder surfaces when humid, warm air makes contact with these surfaces. In places with high humidity, as in: bathrooms, kitchens and boiler rooms, it forms due to poor ventilation.

To stop condensation issues, easy strategies include ensuring you have sufficient ventilation in the main trouble spots, and wiping away any water droplets as they appear. Redirecting humid air outside of your home in Coalville, by upgrading or installing extractors, air bricks and cooker hoods, will help you to eliminate this annoying problem.

The best way to identify the key factors that give rise to the problem, is to have an in-depth damp proofing survey done by an experienced Coalville company. Occasionally moist air is sucked in from the outside, simply making things worse. Airflow needs to be properly regulated to successfully control condensation problems, and a professional damp proofing technician will be able to give advice and offer solutions on this topic.

RISING DAMP

Since 1875, a damp proof course or membrane has been compulsory in all houses built in Great Britain. You may not have a damp proof course installed on your property in Coalville if it was built earlier than this. If you are suffering with rising damp in a home built after this time it may be that your damp proof course has been damaged in some way.

If you think that you might have rising damp, crumbling or rotten skirting boards, "tide marks" on walls and white powdery deposits appearing on walls or being found on floor surfaces, are fair indications that you might be correct. Although the existence of one or more of these is not conclusive, they are all clear indicators of rising damp issues.

Just checking your home's external walls to spot if you have a DPM can be the first step towards eliminating your rising damp. It should be 150 millimetres above ground level for satisfactory protection. If this isn't the case you may be able to dig the ground away to create this space, or if this is not possible, you can install a higher damp course.

If your damp proof course is in fact correct and the gap from the ground isn't the root cause of the problem, dampness could be rising up through your floors and into your walls, which could be a more challenging issue.

Coalville damp proofing experts will swiftly be able to establish the causes of your rising damp, and using a number of methods will soon fix the problem. If you've got an older house with no damp proof course or one that's damaged over a wide area, a damp proof cream can be injected into your external walls. This entails the drilling of holes at evenly spaced intervals along the wall's mortar joint and the cream injected with a special nozzle to fill the gaps behind the brickwork.

If the deterioration of your damp course membrane is too severe, or if damp proofing injection cream is not a suitable treatment, you may have to put in a new damp proof course. Whilst this sort of repair work is a fairly extreme way to solve rising damp, it could be your only solution at the end of the day.

Another solution for less severe areas of membrane damage could include painting on a layer a waterproof (bitumen based) latex emulsion. Because this is applied underneath any existing floor coverings, carpets, tiles and wooden flooring will have to be lifted before this operation can begin. Also used as part of the "tanking" procedure to create a waterproof room, this is a particularly efficacious solution in basement areas. Before the bitumen paint has completely dried, your Coalville damp proofing expert might suggest the use of building paper (a special foil backed membrane), for additional protection.

Tanking: Tanking an area, such as a cellar or basement, is the process of coating exposed surfaces in a watertight paint. As this waterproof coating has to be applied to the base surfaces of floors and walls, all plaster and wall coverings must be taken off before work commences, and all surfaces correctly prepared. Once the coating has been put on and dried, it's then the time to replaster and decorate over the top. This is a very disruptive job because it must be applied to a whole basement level or ground floor of a property, and it's preferable to obtain more than one specialist opinion about whether this is really the only remedy for your rising damp problems.

SOLVING DAMP WITH DEHUMIDIFIERS

Problems with condensation can certainly be helped by the use of dehumidifiers, which are an effective way of reducing the moisture content in the air. The main drawback with dehumidifiers in endeavouring to eliminate damp is that they basically hide the cause of the damp, not cure it. To get the best advice if you're suffering from damp or mould in any part of your property, you should get in touch with a professional damp proofing specialist in Coalville.

FINDING A TRUSTWORTHY DAMP PROOF COMPANY IN COALVILLE

The most reliable recommendations for specialists when it comes to home improvements are usually friends and family. When possible you should try to acquire at least three different quotes from a variety of companies, and before employing any particular damp proof providers, you should ask to look at professional memberships and accreditations, as a verification of their integrity.

Professional Coalville damp proofing companies ought to be signed up members of either the PCA (Property Care Association) or the Damp Proofing Association, or have professional qualifications from the CSTDB (Certificated Surveyor of Timber and Dampness) or the CSRT (Certificated Surveyor in Remedial Treatments).

You can be sure that your damp proofing specialist is suitably qualified and has acquired the necessary working experience to offer a high quality damp proofing service, if they've got membership of the DPA or PCA. Such memberships also means that there are guarantees for any work carried out.

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Around Coalville

Damp proofing work has recently been done in the following Coalville roads and areas - Church Hill, Bonchurch Close, Tiverton Avenue, Claremont Drive, Blackett Drive, The Croft, Bridge Mews, Coverdale, Church Street, The Pines, Devana Avenue, Broom Leys Avenue, Chestnut Grove, St Faiths Drive, Sherwood Close, Bloom Close, Clover Place, The Heath, Beaumont Green, St Christophers Road, Cromore Close, St Davids Court, Smith Crescent, St Clares Court, Charnborough Road, Carter Dale, Belgrave Close, Balmoral Road, Bakewell Street, as well as these local Coalville postcodes: LE67 0BL, LE67 3BN, LE67 0SU, LE67 3AW, LE67 3EJ, LE67 0DF, LE67 3AH, LE67 3FN, LE67 3BZ, LE67 3ES.

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