Wet Rot Edinburgh

We started today a job in Craiglea Drive in the Morningside area of Edinburgh the property is a commercial shop and it has been affected by Wet rot to the floor joists and rising dampness to the lower area walls.

The floor joists that are affected by wet rot will be cut out and replaced with newly treated timbers and the plaster will be removed to the areas that we recorded high damp readings on our moisture meter at the time of the survey.

We carefully go round all the walls testing the lower areas and we produce a drawing which is marked up showing all the areas that require treatment this is presented to the client along with a detailed report and estimate to carry out the treatments, both these documents are retained by the customer and once we have completed the job we issue our 30 year Guarantee on the treatments and works.

This job will get the plaster removed 1 metre from floor level the exposed walls then get drilled and a new Damp proof course is installed and cavity membranes are then fitted to the exposed wall areas we complete the job by fixing plasterboard to the membranes and our plasterer gives it a finishing skim coat of plaster.

By doing the job in this process the walls dry very quickly allowing

decoration normally only a few days after we have completed the job.