Timber Treatment in Southampton
Where damp has already reached the structure. Surveyed and carried out by our own Hampshire-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 Southampton building stock
Terraced SO15–SO17 housing is typically 1880–1914, solid nine-inch brick, suspended timber ground floors and shared chimney stacks. Much of it now operates as student or shared accommodation, with occupancy levels well above what the original ventilation was designed for.
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
Overcrowded ventilation in shared housing
HMOs and student lets generate far more moisture than intermittent bathroom extract can remove, producing widespread bedroom mould.
- 02
Solid nine-inch wall penetration
With no cavity, driven rain on an exposed gable crosses directly to internal plaster.
- 03
Shared chimney stack ingress
Long terraces with neglected stacks produce high-level damp on breasts in the rooms below.
- 04
Buried airbricks in rear yards
Concreted and raised rear yards seal sub-floor ventilation, leading to joist-end wet rot.
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 Southampton — 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 Southampton
A qualified surveyor attends, tests properly and writes it down. No obligation, no sales visit, no charge.
Dorset · Hampshire · Wiltshire