Has anyone heard of these guys? They are based in Bournemouth and are supposed to be specialist in SecoFlex, SecoTherm and SecoMUR. Can anyone give me information on the firm or products please.
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2 years ago
Home Building & Surveying Company
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2 years ago
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1 year ago
Had a damp proof course done and all is good now. Seem like a proper outfit to me. The guys - a two man team arrived on time and went straight to work. No mess and all completed in really good time. Price was okay and they’re very transparent when it comes to products and company information. I don’t plan on having it done again anytime soon, but I’ll give them a good thumbs up!
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1 year ago
well worn scam
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1 year ago
Indeed - find the cause of the damp and fix that, rather than papering over the cracks with some chemical product that could end up damaging your house or your health, or simply not working.
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1 year ago
We had a a chemical damp course injected.
Cause of the damp? Well, damp courses weren't normally installed in peasant's houses 300 years ago. We've a suspicion there wasn't even a proper floor, just earth.
Andy
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1 year ago
they only became the norm in the 20th century. Plenty of DPCless houses handle damp just fine. A DPC is not often the real solution.
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1 year ago
Hah! We had an *electric* one installed in a Victorian semi as a building society mortgage requirement. (strip of copper inserted in the brick course near ground level and earthed!) I have no idea if it would have worked because I cut a strip out of the touching concrete yard and path and filled the trench with pea shingle.
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1 year ago
At one time, in my local area, it was almost universal for the building societies to insist on a damp proof company to install a damp proof course by way of chemical injection before they released part of the mortgage. My rising damp was cured by replacing the rotten wooden window cills/sills :)
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1 year ago
Like wise we had ours done by;
"Tombstone tested treatments" with a 30 year warranty!
Never seen hide or hair of them sine 1977! When it was done.
Most all of it went into the brick and out the other side under the floorboards never had a damp problem anyway!!
The Tombstone was what they called themselves, the idea was that you err buried the problem with the damp forever!