Timber Treatment in Bournemouth
Where damp has already reached the structure. Surveyed and carried out by our own Dorset-based teams, with a written report and a 25-year insured workmanship guarantee.
Covering Dorset · Hampshire · Wiltshire
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Timber Treatment written for Bournemouth building stock
Most of the BH1–BH9 housing we survey is 1890–1935 brick with suspended timber ground floors, slate or plain tile roofs, and rear extensions added at various dates. Cliff-side and chine properties additionally deal with severe exposure and, in a handful of locations, movement-related cracking that lets water in.
Damp that has been present long enough stops being a decorating problem and becomes a structural one. Joist ends bearing into wet walls, bressummers over bay windows, cellar head timbers and suspended ground floors are the places we find serious decay most often.
Local faults that lead to this work
- 01
Raised paths and drives bridging the DPC
Rear yards and side paths built up over the years now sit above internal floor level, taking moisture straight past the damp-proof course.
- 02
Converted flats with sealed ventilation
East Cliff and Boscombe conversions frequently lost their original airflow, and bedrooms now grow black mould on external corners.
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Chine and cliff exposure
Properties above the chines take driven salt-laden rain that finds any weakness in pointing or render.
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Blocked airbricks under bay windows
Bay window sub-floors are the first place we find wet rot when the void has stopped ventilating.
Scope of timber treatment works
Your quotation lists only what your property actually needs.
- Structural timber inspection and probing
- Joist end, bearer and plate replacement
- Fungicidal and insecticidal treatments
- Sub-floor ventilation and airbrick reinstatement
- Concrete and steel structural support where required
- Floor relaying and reinstatement
Timber Treatment in Bournemouth — answered
More urgent than wet rot. Dry rot can travel through masonry and behind plaster to find new timber, so a small visible outbreak may already have colonised joists in the next room. It should be investigated promptly.
No. We lift enough boards to establish extent and reach the affected members, and we relay them. Full relaying is only specified where the decking itself has gone.
Not always. Where the moisture source is removed and the decay is wet rot, replacement plus drying may be sufficient. Dry rot and active woodworm normally do require treatment.
Free timber treatment survey in Bournemouth
A qualified surveyor attends, tests properly and writes it down. No obligation, no sales visit, no charge.
Dorset · Hampshire · Wiltshire