Damp Proofing in Hull

Find the cause before treating the damp

A damp patch on a ceiling or upper wall is a symptom. The water behind it usually comes from somewhere above: lead flashing that has cracked or pulled out of the chimney stack, a blocked or leaking gutter soaking the brickwork, missing flaunching, or a slipped tile letting rain onto the sarking felt. Treating the plaster without dealing with that source only means the stain comes back.

Because we are roofers, we start at the roof. Our drone inspection shows the chimney stack, flashings, valleys and guttering close up, and we look inside the loft for staining and wet timber to narrow down where the water is getting in. Once we know the cause, we repair it, whether that means new leadwork, rebedded ridge tiles, cleared guttering or repairs to the stack.

We also take on general damp proofing work. Not every damp problem comes from the roof, and some have more than one cause, so we tell you honestly what we can see and what we cannot. If a problem sits outside what we can put right, we will say so rather than offer a treatment that does not address it.