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Can you identify Dry Rot, without a fruiting body to look at? here’s one...
Dry Rot has perhaps the most striking of fruiting body’s – brackets or plates of lovely convoluted and rust coloured sporophores’ which are unmistakable. However, only a mature infection will produce...
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Wet Rot Dry Rot White Rot Brown…confused? Don’t be; it’s easy really
A post or two ago I gave some guidance on how to recognise Dry Rot, without sight of Dry Rot’s very specific fruiting body. Since then I’ve been asked to go a little deeper on rots in construction...
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Damp and Timber CPD with ARC Engineers of Leeds
I spent an hour or two with Andrew Rimmington and the engineering staff of ARC engineers, in Morley, Leeds earlier today . Andrew is a keen supporter of continuous professional development and as he...
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25th aniversary newsletter is full of damp proofing,wall tie and structural...
It’s just over 25 years since I started Brick-Tie and our forth annual newsletter showcases a handfull of jobs done over the past year including specialist structural repairs to commercial buildings,...
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BT Preservation & Brick-Tie reach 26 years of service
It’s amazing to think that BT Preservation was incorporated 26 years ago, it seems like yesterday. Dad, brother Stuart and I wanted to take our damp proofing firm (Yorkshire Dampcourse), into wall...
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Membranes for damp control… the good, the bad and the rotten.
What has damp-proofing using membranes got to do with Dry Rot? Read on… This article is about the use of vertical damp-proof membranes in buildings as a way of controlling damp. DPM’s have been used...
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The Property Care Association conference 2015
I attended the Property Care Association conference last week. It was the best yet, with five speakers on a wide range of relevant preservation topics. The first was Peter Wilson of The Wood Studio...
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Certificated surveyor in timber and damp in buildings exams
CSTDB Timber module examination day in South Shields I was in South Shields today as part of a Property Care Association team of examiners. The PCA group included Mike Bromley and David Hockey. Our...
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