Damp and Timber Survey Specialists
Mortgage Surveys - Mortgage Reports - Damp-proofing - Rising damp - Dry Rot - Woodworm
Damp and timber survey experts
We are specialists in providing damp and timber surveys for mortgage purposes, homeowners, commercial clients, banks and landlords. We provide all types of specialist surveys from just a basic damp survey for a landlord, timber survey for a homeowner to a full pre purchase damp and timber survey for a mortgage. We provide full written report with all our surveyors finds, recommendations, site map and a quotation if found necessary.
If instructed to carry out a property survey, we will sent out one of our fully qualified specialist timber and damp surveyors. Our expert damp surveyors will correctly diagnose any damp problem, woodworm infestation (wood boring beetle) or timber decay issue. Our surveyor will then recommend the correct damp proof treatment or timber decay treatment if any is needed. We will then provide you with a quotation for any damp proofing or timber rot works required.
After any timber and damp treatment has been carried out we will then provide you with a long term chemical damp proofing guarantee. Our professional timber and damp surveyors do not carry out a damp and timber surveys to find work, we will only recommend damp treatment as a last resort to cure the damp problem. We have carried out damp proofing treatments in the past that could have been prevented by the homeowner carrying some simply tasks such as lowering external ground levels to stop dampness penetrating into the property above damp proof course level, fixing defective guttering, replacing broken roof tiles and installing air vents in the property to allow air circulation to the subfloor, all these can prevent damp ingress.
- Specialist Damp and Timber Survey Report Company
- Damp and timber survey
- Timber and damp report
- Independent survey
- Condensation surveys and diagnosis
- Full comprehensive damp and timber survey report
- Damp control
- Rising damp diagnosis
- Dry rot survey
- Eco Friendly damp survey
- Pre purchase survey
Damp-proofing Company; carrying out specialist damp proof treatments to homeowner across the UK
A damp and timber survey is important when buying or selling a property, and it can be difficult if a home owner receives many conflicting opinions regarding property treatment from other timber and damp specialists. Our qualified damp surveyors provide a professional, honest and independent service. Will correctly identify any timber decay or infestations and any form of damp ingress. It is important to use a professional and qualified surveyor to carry out the damp and timber survey, a misdiagnosis on any damp problem can result in mortgage retention and in some worse cases refused for lending. As a specialist damp and timber company our main objective for carrying out timber and damp survey’s is to provide you with the correct diagnosis and pass your property with a clean bill of health. But in many cases we can’t pass a property because it is either infested with woodworm, needs dry rot treatment, needs wet rot treatment or has damp problems and need a new damp proof course, but to what extent?
Damp and timber survey: do you require a damp and timber report or quotation
If you do not need a full property surveying, you might want to think about getting a damp or timber survey only, and with both these options we provide you with a full report and quotation for any damp proofing or timber treatment. Most damp and timber surveys carried out by our company are requested because a building surveyor has recommended a client to have a specialist property surveyor to investigate the presence of any wood boring beetle infestation, timber decay or to determine the extent of the dampness that the building surveyor has picked up.
Do you require an Independent Surveyor for a timber and damp report or damp and timber quotation?
A damp and timber survey is usually associated with the buying and selling of a property, or when a property owner has conflicting opinions from other timber and damp specialists. We can provide you with an independent damp and timber consultancy survey by qualified damp surveyors that will correctly diagnose any form of dampness and any type of timber decay or infestations. If you have been instructed to have a specialist damp and timber survey carried out when buying a property it usually means you have already committed yourself financial, whether its survey fees and or solicitors fees, there is a lot at stake financial regarding the findings of a timber and damp report. A misdiagnosis can result in mortgage retention and in some cases refusal of lending. So it is very important for you to use a qualified surveyor to carry out the damp and timber survey. Our main objective is to give your property a clean bill of health.
Chemical damp proof course installations, tanking, damp treatments, damp control treatments fungicide treatments and insecticide treatments are expensive and sometimes not necessary at all. A lot of the time internal or external bridging gives the signs of rising damp and can be wrongly diagnosed. Common error within the damp proofing and timber decay industry is the misdiagnoses of wood-boring insect attack (woodworm infestation). There are many species of wood-boring insects that come under the universal umbrella term of “woodworm” that require completely different treatments and some require no woodworm treatment what so ever. 90% of the time the infestation will be historic or requires no woodworm treatment at all. However, in the event of active wood boring beetle attack, simple chemical free solutions can usually eradicate the infestation.
Are you looking for a free damp and timber survey or report? DON’T! A lot of large timber and damp report companies will send out a surveyor on commission. The surveyor will inspect the property and look for work that doesn’t need doing! Contact us today for the best advice and survey you’ll receive.
Damp and timber Services
Survey the exterior of the property and identify any defects that can lead to damp ingress. Starting from the chimney pot/lead flashing working down to the external ground levels and sub-floor ventilation.
Test the ground Floor walls and solid floors were necessary for presence of damp ingress (non-destructive testing)
Inspect the external exterior of the property for high ground levels which can lead to Damp Proof Course Bridging.
Test the first floor walls for damp ingress paying particular attention to areas at high risk of penetrating damp such as chimney breasts and walls adjacent to external water goods.
A full written damp report along with a sketch plan of the ground floor and where necessary a damp proofing treatment quotation will be issued to you within 48 hours of the survey once payment has been received.
The surveyor carrying out the damp survey will provide you with a direct telephone number to contact him direct if there are any further questions.
How we carry out a timber survey
Survey the exterior of the property and identify any present timber decay or defects that can lead to future timber decay.
Investigate the presence of timber decay and or infestation to the ground floor, staircase, first or further floors and roof void. All timbers accessible on the day of the survey will be inspected. Floor boards will be lifted where possible with the owner’s permission to inspect voids and timbers beneath.
A full written timber report along with a sketch plan of the ground floor and where necessary timber treatment quotation will be issued to you within 48 hours of the survey once payment has been received.
The surveyor carrying out the timber survey will provide you with a direct telephone number to contact him direct if there are any further questions.
Do you need a specialist damp and timber survey for equity release on your property? Have the building society, bank or mortgage lender requested a timber and damp report? Everyday we carry out a specialist timber and damp survey for a client who are trying to get equity release on the property. All our clients are very pleased with what they get from our services.
Do you require a specialist damp and timber surveyor or a specialist damp and timber company to eradicate any form of damp decay or timber infestation? DampServe’s Specialist Damp Surveyors provide the correct diagnosis on any form dampness problem or any form of timber decay & infestation.
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Bank we do damp and timber reports for
Abbey National Treasury Services Plc, DB UK Bank Limited, ABC International Bank Plc, Diamond Bank (UK) Plc, Access Bank UK Limited, Duncan Lawrie Limited, Adam & Company Plc, ADIB (UK) Ltd, EFG Private Bank Limited, Agricultural Bank of China (UK) Limited, Europe Arab Bank plc, Ahli United Bank (UK) PLC, AIB Group (UK) Plc, FBN Bank (UK) Ltd, Airdrie Savings Bank, FCE Bank Plc, Al Rayan Bank PLC, FCMB (UK) Limited, Aldermore Bank Plc, Alliance Trust Savings Limited, Gatehouse Bank Plc, Allied Bank Philippines (UK) Plc (Applied to cancel), GE Capital Bank Limited, Alpha Bank London Limited, Ghana International Bank Plc, ANZ Bank (Europe) Limited, Goldman Sachs International Bank, Arbuthnot Latham & Co Limited, Guaranty Trust Bank (UK) Limited, Axis Bank UK Limited, Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited, Bank and Clients Plc, Habib Allied International Bank plc (Applied to cancel), Bank Leumi (UK) plc, Habibsons Bank Limited, Bank Mandiri (Europe) Limited, Hampden & Co Plc, Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Limited, Hampshire Trust Plc, Bank of Beirut (UK) Ltd, Harrods Bank Ltd, Bank of Ceylon (UK) Ltd, Havin Bank Ltd, Bank of China (UK) Ltd, HSBC Bank Plc, Bank of Communications (UK) Limited, HSBC Private Bank (UK) Limited, Bank of Cyprus UK Limited, HSBC Trust Company (UK) Ltd, Bank of Ireland (UK) Plc, Bank of London and The Middle East plc ICBC (London) plc, Bank of New York Mellon (International) Limited, The ICICI Bank UK Plc, Bank of Scotland plc Investec Bank PLC, Bank of the Philippine Islands (Europe) PLC, Itau BBA International PLC, Bank Saderat Plc, Bank Sepah International Plc, J.P. Morgan Europe Limited, Barclays Bank Plc, J.P. Morgan International Bank Limited, Barclays Bank Trust Company Limited, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, BIRA Bank Limited Jordan International Bank Plc, BMCE Bank International plc, Julian Hodge Bank Limited, British Arab Commercial Bank Plc, Brown Shipley & Co Limited Kexim Bank (UK) Ltd, Butterfield Bank (UK) Limited, Kingdom Bank Ltd, Kleinwort Benson Bank Ltd, C Hoare & Co Kookmin Bank International Limited, CAF Bank Ltd, Cambridge & Counties Bank Limited, Lloyds Bank Plc, Cater Allen Limited, Lloyds Bank Private Banking Limited, Charity Bank Limited, The Charter Court Financial Services Limited, China Construction Bank (London) Limited, CIBC World Markets Plc, CIT Bank Limited (Applied to cancel), Citibank International Limited, Close Brothers Limited, Clydesdale Bank Plc, Consolidated Credits Bank Ltd, Co-operative Bank Plc, The Coutts & Company Credit Suisse (UK) Limited, Credit Suisse International, Crown Agents Bank Limited, Macquarie Bank International Ltd, TD Bank Europe Limited, Marks & Spencer Financial Services Plc, Tesco Personal Finance Plc, Melli Bank plc, TSB Bank plc, Methodist Chapel Aid Limited, Tungsten Bank Plc, Metro Bank PLC, Turkish Bank (UK) Ltd, Mizuho International Plc, Morgan Stanley Bank International Limited, UBA Capital (Europe) Limited (Applied to cancel), UBS Limited, N M Rothschild & Sons Ltd Ulster Bank Ltd, National Bank of Egypt (UK) Limited, Union Bank of India (UK) Limited, National Bank of Kuwait (International) Plc, Union Bank UK Plc, National Westminster Bank Plc, United National Bank Limited, Nomura Bank International Plc, United Trust Bank Limited, Northern Bank Limited, Unity Trust Bank Plc, Northern Trust Global Services Ltd, Vanquis Bank Limited, One Savings Bank Plc, Virgin Money plc, VTB Capital plc, Paragon Bank Plc, Persia International Bank Plc, Weatherbys Bank Limited, PNB (EUROPE) PLC, Wesleyan Bank Limited, Punjab National Bank (International) Limited, Westpac Europe Ltd, QIB (UK) Plc, Zenith Bank (UK) Limited, R. Raphael & Sons Plc, Rathbone Investment Management Limited, RBC Europe Limited, Reliance Bank Ltd, Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, The Sainsbury’s Bank Plc, Santander UK Plc, Schroder & Co Ltd, Scotiabank Europe Plc, Scottish Widows Bank Plc, Secure Trust Bank Plc, SG Hambros Bank Limited, Shawbrook Bank Limited, Smith & Williamson Investment Services Limited, Sonali Bank (UK) Limited, Southsea Mortgage and Investment Company Ltd (In Liquidation), Standard Bank Plc, Standard Chartered Bank State Street Bank Europe Limited, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited, Bath Investment & Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Beverley Building Society, Mansfield Building Society, Buckinghamshire Building Society, Market Harborough Building Society, Marsden Building Society, Cambridge Building Society, Melton Mowbray Building Society, Chorley and District Building Society, The Monmouthshire Building Society, Coventry Building Society, Cumberland Building Society, National Counties Building Society, Nationwide Building Society, Darlington Building Society, Newbury Building Society, Dudley Building Society, Newcastle Building Society, Dunfermline Building Society, Nottingham Building Society, Earl Shilton Building Society, Penrith Building Society, Ecology Building Society, Principality Building Society, Progressive Building Society, Furness Building Society, Saffron Building Society, Hanley Economic Building Society, Scottish Building Society, Harpenden Building Society, Skipton Building Society, Hinckley and Rugby Building Society, Stafford Railway Building Society, Holmesdale Building Society, Swansea Building Society, Ipswich Building Society, Teachers’ Building Society, Tipton and Coseley Building Society, Leeds Building Society, Leek United Building Society, Vernon Building Society, Loughborough Building Society, West Bromwich Building Society, Yorkshire Building Society.