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Well I have 20+ years of building experience on the tools, with 16 years doing of that doing remedials my friend and like all the guys here they will tell you books can get you only so far.

Also I have the b-tec level 3 national diploma in construction and the built environment , which is 2 years of your life not 2 weeks and looking to go on to HNC if I get the time.

And as for architects I have been to many a cocked up job they have done due to poor building design.

I don't need to explain how I do my work because it speaks for itself 0% guarantee claims mate nuff said.
 
DON'T BITE LOL
We have now worked out you have no PI insurance you can't offer an insurance backed guarantee and no cpd, and all architects design cock ups, and not to forget you inject anti sulphate into perps of stone to stop hygroscopic salts. Oh and you also hate the PCA!
Adapt I never thought there could be so much fun on this forum.
Im only joking i'm sure you do carry out a good job and take pride in your work and have no come backs
By the sounds of it you survey your own jobs, I would be interested in what readings you get (wme) on a damp meter on which you decide there is a rising damp problem?
 
I won a fly fishing competition when I was 13 with an 8 1/2 oz Brook Trout. Does that mean I can treat damp?
 
TonyM said:
I won a fly fishing competition when I was 13 with an 8 1/2 oz Brook Trout. Does that mean I can treat damp?
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I once ran over a badger and the blood diffused with the tarmac and the road was never damp again. Does that mean I can treat damp?
 
I aint biting mate I do the job to earn money that is it, I don't really need to explain my ways of working but due to years of doing the job I know what works.

Have you ever actually done the work I mean physically doing the treatments etc?

I kind of know your just referencing PCA handout's etc.

I only pop on here because I have an interest in plastering and talking to guys that probably have more tips and ideas to make my job easier and if I can add my two pence to help someone out then great.

Not here for a point scoring my cock is bigger than yours, left that back in the school yard buddy a long time ago.

And my damp & timber reports are accepted by banks, building societies and chartered surveyors so that's all that matters.
I have seen a PCA report and it was 3 sheets of A4 and it was very vague.
I am not against the PCA, its a good thing in a way but I am against the way its saying if your not in it your not good enough.
What you have to remember also over the last few years a general builder can now buy all the materials he wants to do the job so that is having quite a large effect of the Remedial Industry as chemical companies now just want sales and not bothered about approved installers like they once were.

If a Chartered surveyor accepts your reports then that's all that matters in my eyes.
 
BITE BITE BITE

Answer the question, what wme do you use?

Yes of course I have done the treatments, its all part of the job.
 
Is this all you PCA boys do is bicker ? you really are showing us a good representation of how professional you are.

£500+ a year and the knives in your back come free :RpS_thumbup:
 
BITE BITE BITE

Answer the question, what wme do you use? Im sure this would make an interesting topic that everyone can learn from to be fair. :RpS_thumbsup:
 
Instead of inflating your ego how about using the forums for what they are designed for, the people who come on here are looking for tip's and help into issues that they are having.
They are only really interested in solutions to the problems they are having, some of us don't really need or want to prove themselves in some sort of school boy argument's.
I have learned all I know from on the job experience and not from lectures or seminar hand outs. I have my way of working and I am sure everyone else does too.
So really a guarantee to me in my eyes is "trust in your work" something I have a lot in as I tend to only like to do a job once.
Touch wood I aint had any call backs and hopefully never will, because I take pride in my work I can issues a guarantee for any work I carry out as I know there will never be an issue.

Trust is my guarantee, trust in the product and also the installation.
 
Please don't take offence, like I said before I have no doubt in your ability, and that you take pride in your work!

As above this forum is for learning, thats why I have asked you, what wme do you use for diagnosing rising damp?

I do find it strange that you never answer a question, especially as I think that everyone can learn from this, and if you have over 20 years experience i think people can learn from your skills.
 
I use a survey master for my moisture readings, I don't bother with condensation surveys anymore because I don't really like taking money of people for something that is usually cured by a change in living habits. so sometimes I will visit for free if I am passing the persons house and just give them a few tips.
Landlords tend to be the ones who want it cured with piv and that's totally understandable.

I can see the appeal to the PCA and in a way I think its a good way to go if your just starting out but the trouble for me is I don't think it would do anything for me.

Do you get more business being in it? The only issue I have with the PCA is the way it says that people who aint in it are not good enough to do the work?

Maybe the PCA should tackle the biggest thread to the remedial sector and that's the suppliers selling it to tom, dick & harry ?
 
I like the survey master, its a good meter, what wme do you use though on walls to say if it has rising damp or not.
Im not a member of the PCA.
 
Sorry to burst your bubble guys but your 'moisture meter lol ' is actually an electrical conductivity meter, the £10 one from BnQ or the £600 one from Protim .The 'good one' lol from Protim etc doesn't make the batteries go flat after testing 3 jobs like the BnQ one so you save a fortune in batteries.
 
irish_spread said:
Sorry to burst your bubble guys but your 'moisture meter lol ' is actually an electrical conductivity meter, the £10 one from BnQ or the £600 one from Protim .The 'good one' lol from Protim etc doesn't make the batteries go flat after testing 3 jobs like the BnQ one so you save a fortune in batteries.
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yes but its a qualitative reading in timber, so what do use in masonry for wme irish spread?
 
Skimmy1 said:
yes but its a qualitative reading in timber, so what do use in masonry for wme irish spread?
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I don't really get involved in the dry/wet rot stuff , I always give my mates number, he specialises inthat end of it.

In masonry I always find the cause of the problem, normally penetrating, a lot of the time bridged dpc but lifestyle issues, condensation etc are common. Never rising (lol) damp :RpS_laugh:
 
irish_spread said:
I don't really get involved in the dry/wet rot stuff , I always give my mates number, he specialises inthat end of it.

In masonry I always find the cause of the problem, normally penetrating, a lot of the time bridged dpc but lifestyle issues, condensation etc are common. Never rising (lol) damp :RpS_laugh:
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You have never seen rising damp
 
It means either a cavity wall that has muck etc on the wall ties that lets the damp onto the inner skin or, as In most cases, the outside ground level is above the interior level. What is this, questions and answers ffs, I've got school in the morning so going bed soon
 
irish_spread said:
It means either a cavity wall that has muck etc on the wall ties that lets the damp onto the inner skin or, as In most cases, the outside ground level is above the interior level. What is this, questions and answers ffs, I've got school in the morning so going bed soon
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Bridged DPC, Is that rising damp then? Its a bridged cavity!
 
Skimmy1 said:
Bridged DPC, Is that rising damp then? Its a bridged cavity!
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Not to genned up on the voodoo damp ****, skimmery... but im gonna have a stab at it here
....its bridged dpc????? as in ..more from outside rather than rising?........... do i get a point for that or is it a minus.:RpS_crying:
 
Skimmy1 said:
Bridged DPC, Is that rising damp then? Its a bridged cavity!
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Just cos you have a rising damp profile doesn't mean it's the text book version of rising damp by capillary action, which is extremely rare.
 
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