Welcome To City Damp Surveys.
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We provide honest, independent damp surveys and solutions for London property owners.
If you think you need damp proofing repairs or condensation advice please read this post and please consider using our services before spending thousands of pounds on damp proofing works that you may not need.
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We are offer honest expert 100% independent damp proofing advice.
My name is Kevin Reid BSc ISSE, and for the past nine years I have been helping London property owners solve their damp and condensation problems.
I have helped thousands of clients solve their damp problems, and the solutions are usually very inexpensive.
Most damp problems are related to condensation.
Warm wet air cooling or condensing on a cold part of your walls.
This usually happens at the bottom of the wall (where it’s coldest) or around windows and external doors.
It is not caused by rising damp.
Britain’s houses do not suck water up from the ground and do not need water-repellent chemicals injected into their walls.
Most cases of so-called rising damp are nothing of the kind.
There is very little moisture in the ground under your house, and it does not and cannot magically levitate one meter up your walls.
In most cases of so-called rising damp, usually diagnosed by building surveyors and chemical damp salesmen, there will be no obvious signs of dampness or staining: the sole evidence will be readings on an electrical meter.
And therein lies the root of the problem.
These meters do not measure moisture, but electrical conductance, and when they are pressed into wallpaper or plaster, they often give high (and incorrect) readings, even when the wall underneath is dry.
