Are you considering buying, selling or re-mortgaging a property?
If so, you will probably have a building society survey or valuation carried out. You may also decide to have a Homebuyers report or even a full structural survey. When you receive your report, there may be a recommendation for a Specialist Damp and Timber company to inspect the property for damp, woodworm or timber decay.
This is where DampAid UK come in. (Survey Option 1 or 3)

Are you a home owner who has discovered a particular problem that concerns you?
Damp walls, woodworm or rotten timbers. (Survey Option 2 or 3)

Either way, you can call us on 0800 0680 881, email us or fill in our survey request form to make an appointment.

With any building defect, it is essential that you get a correct diagnosis of the problem before any recommendations for dealing with it can be made. Dampaid UK deal with problems arising from damp in a building as well as woodworm and timber decay. An initial inspection is carried out by a specialist CSRT surveyor to correctly diagnose the problem and provide the necessary recommended remedial measure to rectify it. Wherever possible environmentally friendly, cost effective solutions are provided avoiding chemical treatment. If no chemical treatment is needed we will say so.

Some of our competitors use surveyors who are paid by commission. DampAid UK does not. Our inspections are carried out only by surveyors qualified in remedial building problems, and whilst all companies need to make a profit, our surveyors are not motivated by commission earnings and we do not need to find unncessary work to quote for. If nothing needs to be done, we will say so.

Damp Survey North West

The survey will be carried out by a fully qualified CSRT damp-proofing and timber treatments specialist surveyor who is an expert in the damp and timber industry, having been specifically trained in this field.

Depending on the instructions received, the surveyor will inspect all accessible walls at ground floor level for rising damp using an electric resistance metre and visible observations. (However, he will not normally move external obstructions or internal furnishings). The whole property will be visually inspected for signs of significant condensation, (backed up by measurements taken with a thermo hygrometer, if it is considered advisable to do so). External observations will be made and relevant comments on building defects such as rainwater goods, external render etc, will be made where appropriate, to the client or in the report if submitted. Any visual evidence of timber decay will also be reported upon.

Timber Survey North West

Accessible timbers will be inspected for woodboring insect attack or timber decay (dry rot, wet rot). Roof timbers will be inspected if safe access is available. Floor timbers will be inspected where accessible. With occupied properties the inspections are usually limited. Fitted carpets will not normally be lifted (unless loose) or furniture moved. Floorboards will not be lifted unless they are loose enough to do so without causing any damage. Staircase timbers will be inspected, except where fitted carpets are present. Soffits to the underside of the staircase often prevent inspection of the timbers too.

Guarantee for Damp-proofing, Woodworm Treatment & Dry Rot

Don’t take chances with your property. Get the reassurance and protection of using a fully qualified CSRT damp / timber specialist surveyor and a BWPDA / PCA member firm offering a GPI insurance backed 20 year guarantee.

Our Guarantee Certificate is issued naming the property, not the occupant; therefore there is no transfer fee if you sell. Unless otherwise stated to you, a 20 year guarantee will be issued for our specialist rising damp treatment, woodworm treatment, dry rot treatment and wet rot treatment and a 10 year guarantee for our tanking. An independent Insured Guarantee (through the GPI) can be provided for an additional one-off nominal fee. Both guarantees cover materials and labour for the specialist work carried out by ourselves. (Naturally, we cannot guarantee work carried out by others). These guarantees are conditional upon the property being properly maintained throughout the guarantee period.

Our Aims & Objectives

1. We aim to make contact within 24 hours of your enquiry.

2. Although our surveys are carried out during weekday mornings and afternoons, we are able to arrange weekend or evening appointments.

3. We aim to attend most appointments within a week of initial enquiry and our reports and/or quotations can be emailed, upon request, within hours following the survey.

4. We can normally commence work within two weeks of receiving instruction.

Damp Aid UK - North West have fully trained specialist technicians who regularly carry out damp control, damp proofing, woodworm treatment, dry rot treatment and general property care maintenance in areas such as Accrington, Ashton, Blackburn, Bolton, Bury, Chorley, Wigan, Rochdale, Stockport, Warrington Widnes, Knowsley, Saint Helens, Rawtenstall, Liverpool and the many other towns and villages throughout the UK's North West region.

With nearly three decades of successfully treating damp problems, rising damp, woodworm, dry rot, wet rot, and condensation in both domestic and commercial properties, Damp Aid UK - North West have built a reputation of providing a quality service with very competitive prices and a personal one-to-one service with all our clients.

Call us today on 0800 0680 881, email us or fill in our survey request form to arrange your survey.


DampAid North West

59 Piccadilly
Manchester
Lancashire
M1 2AQ

0800 0680 881

Did you know? (just for fun!)

• When King James I stayed with Sir Richard de Hoghton at Hoghton Tower (a Tudor mansion in central Lancashire) in 1617 he so enjoyed his hosts hospitality that one night, over dinner, he drew his sword and knighted the joint of beef with the words "I knight thee, Sir Loin" – hence the modern name of sirloin steak. The huge table on which the loin of beef stood can still be seen at Hoghton Tower.
• With 260,000 people, Bolton is the largest town in Britain
• Britain's shortest river is the Brun which runs through Burnley.
• Carnforth Station was the location in 1945 of the filming of the Iconic movie 'Brief Encounter'
• Preston is home to Europe’s largest bus station
• Bacup is home to one of the few remaining English folk dance troupes - the Britannia Coco-Nut Dancers, or 'Nutters'. Their dancing is very distinctive and colourful. There is the Garland Dance and the Nut Dance. The 'nuts' are wooden discs, which are worn on the dancers' hands, knees and belts and are struck in time to the music.
• The young actor Sam Aston, who plays Chesney in Britain's longest running soap, Coronation Street, also lives in Bacup.
• The UK canal system was started in Lancashire with a canal from Worsley to Manchester built in 1759 by James Brindley. (Called the Bridgewater Canal). It was built to take coal from the Duke of Bridgewater’s coal mines at Worsley into the centre of Manchester to be used for the newly invented steam engines. (Brindley also achieved another world first, building an aqueduct taking the canal over the River Irwell).
• In 1830 the first British passenger railway opened in Lancashire. The Manchester to Liverpool railway was developed mainly to bring raw cotton from the port of Liverpool to the growing cotton metropolis of Manchester at a much cheaper cost than by road or canal. Trials were held at Rainhill near Liverpool to find the best locomotive for the railway and George Stephenson's 'Rocket' won. The railway opened on 15 September 1830.
• Lancashire was the centre of cotton production, with towns such as Manchester, Bolton, Preston, Blackburn and Burnley dependent on the cotton mills that grew up. Some of the main inventions that contributed to the growth of the cotton industry originated in Lancashire e.g. John Kay's Flying Shuttle in Bury, James Hargreaves' Spinning Jenny in Blackburn, Richard Arkwright's Water Frame in Preston and Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule in Bolton.
• Bolton Wanderers beat Manchester United 2-0 in the FA Cup final in 1958!
• Blackburn Rovers Football Club was formed by a group of public schoolboys in 1875
• Lanky Twang is the nickname for the speaking of Lancashire dialect and slang. It includes phrases like 'Orite' meaning 'Are you alright', 'Rite for a do' meaning 'I'm ready' and 'Put wood in'th hole' meaning 'close the door'.
• In 1612 eight women and two men were hanged at Lancaster jail for the murder, by witchcraft, of 17 people in the area of East Lancashire known as the Forest of Pendle. There were three others also involved, but one died in jail, another was tried and hanged at York, and another was convicted of witchcraft but not murder and was imprisoned for a year. The ten were known as the ‘Pendle witches’.
• The Fisherman's Inn, Hollingworth Lake, Littleborough (near Rochdale) is where this site’s creator grew up!
• Liverpool celebrated its 800th birthday in 2007, after King John granted Liverpool city status in 1207.
• The world's first School of Tropical Medicine was opened in 1898 and was successful in discovering that Malaria could be passed on by the bite of the Mosquito.
• Both Littlewoods and Vernons football pools came from Liverpool.
• Meccano model trains and the Dinky Toy were invented by Frank Hornby of Liverpool.
• Football nets were invented by John Alexander Brodie, Liverpool's municipal engineer, in 1892.
• The Calder Stones in South Liverpool are older than Stonehenge
• Liverpool carried out and financed the first ever Atlantic telegraph cable in 1886.
• Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral is the largest cathedral in Britain and the fifth largest in the world.
• Liverpool is home to the oldest Chinese and African communities in Europe, and the city's Chinatown boasts the biggest Chinese arch outside mainland China.
• The annual Mathew Street Music Festival held every August Bank Holiday is the largest city centre-based free music festival in Europe.
• Liverpool is the most filmed-in British city outside London, with cinema credits including: 51st State, The Hunt for Red October, My Kingdom, The Virgin Of Liverpool, In the Name of the Father, Letter to Brezhnev, Backbeat and Priest.
• Did you know that John Lennon was born 9th October 1940 during an air raid.
• Did you know that in 1859 Beechams opened the worlds first medicine factory in St Helens
• Liverpool has more Grade II-listed buildings than any other city in the UK outside London and more Georgian buildings than Bath.
• Merseyside is the Golfing Capital of England. There are over 40 courses, 7 of which are leading championship venues.
• Coronation Street, set in Manchester, is one of the longest-running soaps on British TV, and also the most popular, alongside Eastenders. Some episodes have attracted almost 20 million viewers, which equates to about one third of the population of the UK.
• The Romans founded a small settlement called Mamuciam where the city of Manchester now stands. In Castlefield the remains of a Roman fort can be found. This is where the rivers Irwell and Medlock meet and as such was a good defensive position which the Romans took advantage of. By the 5th century, when the Romans left Britain, the settlement was home to an estimated 2000 people. The site at Castlefield has been decimated by industrial development in the 18th and 19th centuries, however some ruins still survive.
• For much of its existence Manchester was a particularly unimportant place. By the time of the Norman invasion in 1066 it was only a district. It formed part of the Hundred (or Manor) of Salford, which then stretched from present-day areas Preston in the north to Stockport in the south, and from Warrington in the west to Rochdale in the east.
• In 1830 the Manchester to Liverpool railway was opened to carry both passengers and freight. It ran for 31 miles between the two cities and linked the industries of Manchester to the huge port of Liverpool. The opening ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister and several other important guests, one of whom (William Huskisson, MP for Liverpool) was run over and killed by one of the locomotives. It was by no means the first railway in the world, and in fact two freight lines were built in Britain in the five years beforehand; one from Stockton to Darlington and one from Bolton to Leigh. It was, however, the most successful and within five years of operation was carrying 500,000 people a year between the two cities.
• In the 18th century Manchester became the centre of a canal network that stretched across the country. However, it was one canal in particular, The Bridgewater Canal, built in 1765, that is widely seen as kick-starting this development.
• The Guardian daily newspaper was first established in 1821 in Manchester. It was known as the Manchester Guardian until 1959. It relocated to London in 1976 to reflect its status as a national newspaper.
• During the 19th and 20th centuries Manchester was a hotbed of radicalism and reform movements. It was also home to Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, famous campaigners for women's rights.
• The two oldest buildings in the city are the Old Wellington Inn and Sinclair’s Oyster Bar. The Wellington Inn was built in the 1550's and Sinclairs Oyster bar dates back to 1720. They had already been moved slightly (15ft upwards) in the 1970's to accommodate the Arndale shopping centre development. They both survived the 1996 IRA bomb blast because they were surrounded by those new buildings. They were eventually moved 100m to their present site opposite the cathedral.
• Known as the backbone of England, the Pennines (or rather the fact that Manchester lies directly to the west them) are the reason the city is rainier than most places in the UK. This is because the prevailing wind carries water vapour inland, and drops this in the form of rain when it is forced to rise over the uplands.
• Greater Manchester is a large area comprising ten districts, with Manchester at the centre. Other districts include Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan.
• Today Manchester is most famous for football. Manchester United, arguably one of the greatest football teams in history, is known and supported across the globe.

Damp and Timber survey Greater Manchester
We cover the following areas and everywhere inbetween!

Specialist damp and timber surveyor covering Abram | Altrincham | Ashley | Ashton Under Lyne | Ashton-in-Makerfield | Ashton-under-Lyne | Atherton | Beswick | Billinge | Bolton | Bramhall | Bury | Damp and timber survey carried out on properties in area such as Castlefield | Chadderton | Cheadle | Cheadle Hulme | Cheetham | Cheetham Hill | Countywide | Crumpsall | Davyhulme | Denshaw | Denton | Didsbury | Disley | Droylsden | Dukinfield | Eccles | Failsworth | Damp proofing treatment carried out on properties in Fallowfield | Flixton | Gatley | Haigh | Hale | Hale Barns | Handforth | Hazel Grove | Heywood | Timber treatment was carried out for clients in Hindley | Horwich | Hyde | Ince | Kearsley | Littleborough | Manchester | Manchester Airport | Marple | Mellor | Middleton | Dry rot control was undertaken for clients in Millbrook | Moston | Mottram | Old Trafford | Oldham | Openshaw | Pendlebury | Platt Bridge | Prestwich | Penetrating damp treatment was undertaken for clients in Radcliffe | Rochdale | Romiley | Rusholme | Saddleworth | Sale | Salford | Shevington | Stalybridge | Standish | Stockport | Stretford | Swinton | Trafford Park | Tyldesley | Uppermill | Urmston | Walkden | West Didsbury | Westhoughton | Whitefield | Wigan | Worsley | Wythenshawe |

Damp and Timber survey Merseyside
We cover the following areas and everywhere inbetween!

Pre-purchase damp and timber survey was carried out for cllients who were buying properties in Aughton | Barnston | Bebington | Birkenhead | Blundellsands | Bootle | Caldy | Eastham | Wet rot works have been undertaken on properties in Ellesmere Port | Fairfield | Haydock | Heswall | Holywell | Hoylake | Huyton | Kirkdale | Knowsley | Liverpool | Maghull | Moreton | Neston | Netherton | New Brighton | Newton-le-Willows | Port Sunlight | Prenton | Prescot | Rainford | Rainhill | Scarisbrick | Our specialist damp and timber surveyor visited clients in Southport | Speke | St Helens | Sutton Manor | Thurstaston | Toxteth to undertake specialist damp and timber report. | Tuebrook | Wallasey | Walton | Wavertree | Whiston | Widnes | Wirral | Woolton |