Category: Non-Traditional Housing

Mould in a Wimpey No Fines House
19/05/2023
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Joe Malone
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Concrete, Concrete defects, Condensation, Damp, Health & Safety, Mould, Non-Traditional Housing, Ventilation
I dealt with one of the more severe cases of condensation damp and mould in a Wimpey No Fines house, that I’ve ever […]
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A Trip To Berlin
15/01/2018
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Joe Malone
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Concrete, Concrete defects, Condensation, Non-Traditional Housing, Ventilation
Berlin Buildings & Defects I visited Berlin over the Christmas period, a City I’m very familiar with having been on numerous occasions and […]
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EXTERNAL WALL INSULATION: The Defects are Often Built in. Part 2
19/04/2016
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Joe Malone
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Construction Claims, Latent defects, Non-Traditional Housing, Patent defects, Solid wall insulation (EWI), Thin coat failure
The First Visual Signs of Premature Failure Explained Some time back we blogged about a Midlands high rise EWI scheme that we’d monitored and […]
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Rare Timber Framed House
25/10/2015
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Joe Malone
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Conservation, Non-Traditional Housing, Structural, Timber Framed
Timber Framed and Technically Obsolete. I was asked to carry out a survey on a fascinating building this week, a very rare 8 […]
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