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Recent videos
All videos on YouTube →French Drains – why we avoid them.
Oakum Caulking old timber frames to make them watertight
What happened to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)?
A few hours later and it's all drying out.. Here's why..
Yes it's Condensation – it's the weather.
Lucy and Pete discuss the unprofessional relationship between PCA and RICS
Roof problems causing serious damp internally
Damp marks on walls – why?
Causes of damp in old houses
Why old walls get damp, what actually fixes it, and what the damp industry gets wrong.
French Drains – why we avoid them.
What happened to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)?
A few hours later and it's all drying out.. Here's why..
Yes it's Condensation – it's the weather.
Lucy and Pete discuss the unprofessional relationship between PCA and RICS
Roof problems causing serious damp internally
Damp marks on walls – why?
Orleton Manor roof – Jake's wallplate strategy
Timber-framed buildings
Oak frames: what we find, how we repair them, and how to look after them.
A rare find – timber frame, early 1600's, ready to be restored.
Very careful and gentle blast cleaning of old oak beams
Blast cleaning old oak beams without damage
Structural over engineering of an historic roof
Amazing discovery of hidden Georgian window shutters
Discovering a timber frame hidden behind a wall – thermal imaging to the rescue.
Blast cleaning an old timber framed building and repairing the oak
Repairing old timber framing
From the archive
Some of the videos that started it all, with Pete’s notes.
Extreme damp wallys
Mike did a survey recently in London and found this absolute mess – some of the worst damp wally damage we've ever seen. They even injected the skirting boards! The wall was bone dry – all the mess was completely unnecessary.
ANOTHER PCA Damp Wally and a Welsh stone cottage
This is a classic example of PCA damp proofing yobbos, who drill and injct an otherwise perfectly good stone cottage. The problem is all the cement pointing – which is trapping moisture into the walls. Take away the cement, and the walls dry out.
Thermal imaging in Historic Building Surveys
Now this is just to show you what we do with thermal imaging – the sorts of things you can see with a camera, and the advice that it enables us to give to clients. It's powerful stuff – if you ever engage a surveyor- they better have one of these, or they aren't worth having.
Surveying a Grade 2* timber frame – what we look for.
This is a huge timber framed property we surveyed – a few comments about roofing and timber frames really – but good to see what we get up to.
A VERY wet Grade 2 listed stone house because of thick cement render
This was Pete's first visit to a clients house, when he found thick render covering a beautiful old building and making it wet and cold. Subsequently we helped manage a negligence claim against surveyors who failed to condusct a proper purchase survey, and the house is now thankfully re-rendered in lime, drying out nicely – and warm and dry inside. Without ANY damp proofing.