What this service is, what things cost, and how to make sense of what is happening to your walls.
This website is an introduction service, not a contractor. Your enquiry is passed to one vetted independent damp proofing specialist who covers Grantham and the surrounding villages. They carry out the survey, provide the quote and do the work, and you deal with them directly. The about page explains the model in full.
No. You pay the specialist for any survey or work you agree with them, at their normal prices. The introduction itself costs you nothing and you are under no obligation to accept a quote.
Rising damp forms a tide mark low on ground-floor walls, often with white salt deposits, and persists year-round. Condensation favours cold spots such as corners, window reveals and walls behind furniture, appears upstairs as readily as downstairs, and is worst in winter. Because the treatments are completely different, a proper survey with moisture profiling is the reliable way to tell them apart.
It depends on the cause, the length and thickness of the affected walls and how much replastering is needed, which is why this site does not publish a fixed price list. After inspecting the property the specialist provides a written, itemised quote, and if the fix is simple maintenance rather than treatment, the report says so.
Much of the town sits low in the Witham valley on slow-draining, clay-rich ground, and a large share of its housing is pre-1919 solid brick with no cavity, built when damp proof courses were primitive or absent. Add a century of ground levels creeping upwards and old slate damp courses failing, and moisture finds its way in. Stone buildings in the conservation area bring their own needs, because lime-built walls must breathe.
Yes. The specialist covers Grantham and the villages around it, including Great Gonerby, Barrowby and Bottesford in the Vale of Belvoir. If you are elsewhere in the area, send an enquiry and you will get a straight answer about coverage.
Usually, yes, especially for the pre-1919 terraces near the town centre where mortgage valuations often flag high moisture readings. A specialist survey establishes whether readings reflect active damp or old hygroscopic salts in the plaster, and what a fix would cost, which is useful information before you negotiate or exchange.
No. Your enquiry goes to one vetted local specialist only. Details are never sold to lead lists or passed to multiple firms, and the privacy policy sets out exactly how your information is handled.