It's odd with all the guarantees and waffle that a couple of guys turn up who look like the live for special brew, I often have to hack off their work and redo it, the builder says I need their guarantee. Often meant to become a surveyor myself but lost interest as I was earning enough and a bit lazy to do courses..and bit nervous too I must admit..I have been doing plastering for DPC firms for 10 years and have seen it all.
What did you have to do to become an approved installer or should I ask ,ha haai tell the customer and then do a survey for them being a Kingfisher approved installer and all that ...................:RpS_wink:
That,s bad Carlos :RpS_angry: always park your nice clean car a few roads down when pricing up :RpS_thumbsup:I know what you mean. The pub up the road from me had some damp, the brewery got a firm in to sort it out.
I was talking to the landlord about it all and he had no control over who they used. A surveyor rolled up in a nice clean car in a suit and did the survey. A week later a EU fella rocked up in an old escort with the back seats out to hack off inject and replaster! He was in out done in a day feck knows what he did.
What did you have to do to become an approved installer or should I ask ,ha haa
i tell the customer and then do a survey for them being a Kingfisher approved installer and all that ...................:RpS_wink:. most jobs rarely need a chemical DPC its nearly always other more obvious stuff
That,s bad Carlos :RpS_angry: always park your nice clean car a few roads down when pricing up :RpS_thumbsup:
Did not mean you mate !Twas not me bud a firm not too far away though.
Yeah but you can use you damp proofer training and sell them 1 anyway..............:RpS_sneaky:
until it goes wrong and there is a call back ,first port of call is you :RpS_crying: hope this is not the case ,but over the years i have seen alot of this ,the money for the damp companies is in the dpc ,not the plastering ,how can they guarantee your work ?I am just plastering a very damp room had a proper company out they installed a chemical d.p.c and wrote a spec and supplied chemicals for us to follow and they guarantee it aswell so we all do well out of it
Oh,guys, I am asking this quietly and I will never reveal your answer, does rising exist, or is it like the Loch Ness monster.i have done loads of damp proofing and tanking and then bought the guarantee , they made me smile when they asked did I cut corners,
until it goes wrong and there is a call back ,first port of call is you :RpS_crying: hope this is not the case ,but over the years i have seen alot of this ,the money for the damp companies is in the dpc ,not the plastering ,how can they guarantee your work ?
I don't know mate. All I can say is when an internal wall is damp 300mm up where else can it of come from?
Royal society of chartered surveyors say it does not exist.the injection of liquid chemicals in a period property with lime mortar joints,where the brickwork is continually moving solves exactly what? Temporary at the very least,a breathable damp proof plaster would seem to be more sensible to my simple mind.I don't know mate. All I can say is when an internal wall is damp 300mm up where else can it of come from?
A liquid DPC ,needs the back up of new render to work .IMO and i was always told it will only control rising damp ,not cure itRoyal society of chartered surveyors say it does not exist.the injection of liquid chemicals in a period property with lime mortar joints,where the brickwork is continually moving solves exactly what? Temporary at the very least,a breathable damp proof plaster would seem to be more sensible to my simple mind.
I don't know mate. All I can say is when an internal wall is damp 300mm up where else can it of come from?
If it controls it then essentially the problem is cured? A wall should be allowed to dry if wet, dehumidifier and heater before re plastering but how often does this happen..in big insurance jobs yes but not in the bread and buter work of a jobbing spread..A liquid DPC ,needs the back up of new render to work .IMO and i was always told it will only control rising damp ,not cure it