CAL Building Maintenance and Construction

We are an established, local team of qualified joiners and plasterers who specialise in treatments to rising damp, timber rot and woodworm treatment. Have over 30 years of combined experience in the field and our team consist of fully qualified city & guilds joiners and plasterers, who are all CRB checked and CSCS qualified. Both first and second fix joinery work undertaken and can quote from patch work plaster to full house plastering works.

Will beat any like for like genuine quote. And also offer free quotations. Our work ranges from

•Damp proofing

•laminate flooring

•internal/external doors

•skirting and architrave

•Dry rot/ Wet rot/ woodworm treatments

•stud walls

•window fitting

•all forms of plastering

•Basement tanking

•Wall ties

•Crack Stitching

• All types of brickwork undertaken

Please call Mick on 07849180665

WHAT IS RISING DAMP?

As the name suggests, rising damp starts at the bottom of an internal wall and then moves upwards, this is due to capillary action. Porous bricks, mortar and cement in the ground floor and internal wall absorb water and suck it upwards, like a straw. The internal wall becomes permanently moist, encouraging the growth of mould and even damaging structures.

While damp proof courses (DPC) prevent water from being drawn up by the brick work stopping rising damp, they can become damaged over time, making a rising damp problem more likely in an older property as the older the DPC the more likely it can fail.

You can also identify rising damp in properties where the ground level has been changed; for example with the installation of a new driveway or path which then 'breaches' the DPC and moisture has a pathway over.