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Very busy August ahead looking to complete the insurance water damage jobs in Gorgie Road and Buckingham Terrace as well as the Basement in Northumberland Street, cellars are going along nicely with the jobs at Moray Place Heriot Row Dublin Street Leith Walk Nelson Street and Glencairn Crescent and Scotland Street all going well.

New cellars booked in to start in August at Regent Terrace and Douglas Crescent, our Damp proofing squad are also very busy surveys are also very busy currently doing 5 per day drawings are now done on CAD Looking forward to cooler weather.

Payments can be made to Kingston Preservation using credit cards or Debit cards this has proved to be very popular with customers and our Finance team are open Monday to Friday 9am till 5 pm.

Kingstons finance department is operated by Susan Young who can be contacted at admin@kingston-preservation.co.uk

We are currently working on a commercial property in Gorgie Road in Edinburgh that due to a burst water mains was under 3 feet of water we are doing this job via the clients insurance and it involves drying out works and the fitment of cavity membranes.

The property is being converted into a new gym and is on 2 levels we are working in the basement.

Products used on this job are Delta 500.

We installed a channel barrier and a drilled holes into the concrete to create a soak away as a second barrier.

We have now entered period 3 of the year and due to current extensive workload we have added new joiners to the team projects currently on going are an extensive water damage project in Gorgie Road in Edinburgh where the building was submerged under 3 feet of water the walls are all being fitted with Delta Membranes and the floors painted with an epoxy resin paint the property is being converted into a gym and we are working alongside the main contractor on this project who is Our cellar conversion teams are also very busy with cellars currently work in progress are 2 at Heriot Row, 3 at Carlton Street, 2 at Moray Place,3 at Manor Place, and 3 at Dundas Street 1 at Union Street, and one      starts tomorrow at Grosvnor Street so 15 currently work in progress.

Our Damp proofing teams are also very busy we are currently work in progress at a basement in Hillside Crescent in Edinburgh on a property with extensive rising damp the walls are stripped 1 metre high and the exposed walls are drilled and a new damp proof course inserted followed by the fitment of Delta PT Membranes the walls are then plaster finished we have 2 teams of plasterers working flat out and we are currently booked 3 weeks ahead with this type of work. We are also currently working on 2 Basement waterproofing jobs where the entire basements of these properties are being waterproofed 1 at Dublin Street and one at Clarendon Crescent in Edinburgh.

We are booked in to start next week an extensive Damp proofing job to a property at Upper Gilmore Place, and another Basement conversion in Northumberland Street Edinburgh.

We are starting an extensive water damage job next week at Buckingham Terrace this is another insurance water damage repair where a burst mains pipe flooded 3 floors of the building the clients are moving out for 6 weeks to allow our restoration and drying out works to be completed.

We also have a new van on the road.

Surveying and enquiries are at an all time high with up to 8 surveys a day being done 7 days a week to keep up with demand.

We started another major water damage repair this week at a property in Balerno that suffered severe water damage due to burst pipes during the recent freeze this is the 2nd Floood job we have started in January the other one being in Gorebridge.

These jobs are complex and involve phase 1 Strip out phase 2 Dry out using drying equipment and dehumidifiers Phase 3 Re Build Phase 4 Re decoration we are now on the approved panel of an insurance company and have been for the last year every job we have done has went well with customers writing good reviews about our work.

If you are in need of our services we can provide a detailed report and estimate and we do emergency call outs if the report needs done urgently we have experience of working with Loss Adjusters and we keep the customers informed at all stages of the job.

We undertake surveys 7 days a week so if you need our assistance you can call me direct on 07455777635 or our Edinburgh office in Walker Street 0131 240 5430 or you can use our 24/7 7 days a week book a survey link here and if we can do the survey same day we will.