Month: November 2015
Legal Costs in Construction Claims
The Need to Keep Costs Proportionate in Construction Claims We’ve taken on a lot of construction claims over the last three weeks and […]
Ten Tips to Avoid Buying a Damp Property
Ten simple but valuable checks for potential homebuyers Check external ground levels are not too high when compared to internal finished floor levels. If […]
How Guaranteed is My Construction Guarantee?
The Murky World of Construction Guarantees, Latent Defects & Contractual Claims I was prompted to write this blog after a client recently explained […]
Dealing with Construction Moisture
Why Construction Moisture Can Severely Delay a Development Programme. We dealt with two issues this week relating to problems caused by construction moisture. […]
Repointing Heritage Brickwork
Keeping Thin Joints Thin We rarely see repointing done well in standard 10mm mortar joints so imagine what we find when encountering thin […]
Recent Posts
Categories
- Beetle Infestation
- Brickwork
- Calcium silicate bricks
- Cavity wall insulation
- Cellars
- Central heating
- Chimneys & Flues
- Concrete
- Concrete defects
- Condensation
- Conservation
- Construction Claims
- CPD
- Crack monitoring
- Damp
- Damp Proofers
- Damp Training
- Development
- Drainage
- Driveways & Paving
- Expert Witness
- Flat Roofing
- Flooring defects
- Health & Safety
- Heritage & Restoration
- High Rise Fire safety
- Latent defects
- Law
- Leadwork
- Masonry Defects
- Mould
- Non-Traditional Housing
- Parapet walls
- Patent defects
- Penetrating damp
- Portland cement render
- Renewable Technologies
- Rising Damp
- Roofing
- Sealants
- Snagging Inspection
- Solid floor defects
- Solid wall insulation (EWI)
- Structural
- Structural fire protection
- Structural roof defects
- Subsidence
- sulphate attack
- Thatch
- Thin coat failure
- Timber decay
- Timber Framed
- Tools & Equipment
- Tools and Materials
- Ventilation
Archives
- July 2024
- June 2024
- June 2023
- May 2023
- February 2023
- October 2022
- August 2022
- June 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- December 2020
- April 2020
- July 2019
- April 2019
- November 2018
- July 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
Tags
Bridged damp proof course Building conservation Camera Pole Cellars Central Heating Concrete block driveway Condensation Coniophora Puteana Damp Decay in floating timber floors Gypsum plaster floors Housing Ombudsman Mould Non traditional housing Roof defects Sinking driveway Snagging inspection Wimpey no fines