Damp, Mould and Timber Specialists Across Dorset
Dorset is our home county and where the majority of our work sits. It gives us three very different damp problems in one place: dense Victorian and Edwardian terraces in the conurbation, exposed coastal housing from Sandbanks round to Weymouth, and rural stone and cob properties inland around Blandford, Sherborne and the Blackmore Vale.
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What we find in Dorset
Our surveyors are based in the county and work across it daily, so we know how a chine-side property behaves differently from a chalk-valley cottage — and we quote for what is actually in front of us.
The BH postcodes are dominated by pre-1939 brick housing with suspended timber ground floors, plus a very large stock of 1960s–80s converted flats along the seafront. Inland DT areas bring solid stone, cob and lime-rendered construction where modern cement repairs have often done more harm than the original damp.
Four things that go wrong in Dorset
Not a generic list. These are the defects our surveyors record most often at this postcode.
- 01
Driven rain on coastal elevations
South-west facing walls from Bournemouth to Weymouth take repeated saturation. Marginal pointing that would survive inland fails here.
- 02
Bridged damp-proof courses
Decades of patio raising and drive levelling has buried DPCs across the conurbation — our single most common finding.
- 03
Sub-floor decay
Blocked or buried airbricks in terraced streets lead to joist-end rot under otherwise sound-looking floors.
- 04
Cement on lime buildings
Inland stone and cob repaired in cement render traps moisture and pushes it into internal finishes.
A four-stage job in BH6 remains our reference case: heavily salt-damaged plaster to a ground-floor room, hacked back, new damp-proof course and membrane installed, then replastered and finished. The photographs of that job appear across this site.
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Dorset · Hampshire · Wiltshire