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Following water damage Islington or flood damage Islington, we are able to provide a certificate of dryness, dry certificate, or dryness certificate, compliant with the IICRC S500 standard and reference guide for professional water damage restoration. Fully insured and qualified, our team of applied structural drying technicians, thermal imaging damp survey specialists, damp mapping operatives, …

Emergency Roof Repairs London. Rain water flooding at this time of year is unusual because it’s supposed to be summer, however it is absolutely pelting it down outside. We are responding to under take emergency roof repairs every few hours. We have four teams out in London from 6am to 7pm undertaking emergency roof repairs. …

22 degrees Celsius in Harrow today; undertaken a flat roof repair in HA1 with the team. They identified junctions through which water was found to be leaking didn’t take long to identify but did take quite a while to cleaner ready for the roof repairs. We checked to see whether there were any flammable materials …

Independent Damp Survey Hackney. Using thermal imaging, we have mapped the damp upon this ceiling. The damp survey was undertaken in Hackney. A slow drip from the ceiling triggered the request for a damp survey and subsequently we attended. Despite the primary visual damp survey showing only a small area of staining and the few …

At Building Response we run a tight ship, so when you have water getting in, we will find it and fix it!

Thermal Imaging Leak Detection of an Unregulated and Poorly Installed Underfloor Heating System Layout  In cold February, it is common for us to turn up our heating to higher temperatures than we would at any other time of year.  If we are lucky enough to have underfloor heating, it can be a blessing; no one …

TIEE – Thermal Imaging Energy Efficiency Survey of a Flat Roof on a Sand Stone Indian Temple in Potters Bar EN6The objective was to conduct a qualitative thermographic survey to find the water ingress points on the Indian Temple at EN6. My briefing consisted of the following information: Building has no metal within its construction; …

What we can see here in this Thermal Image, is water which has saturated the plasterboard (dry wall) from the floor above. The wooden joists can be seen which are the lighter parts in the purple as they are less water logged than the plasterboard. The plasterboard is effectively colder as it has a lower …

Concrete Windows Split. The following is an example of our Building Response hazard and safety emergency call out inspections. We responded within 25 minutes of receiving the call to NW1, Camden, and were able to assess and determine the probable cause and likely progression of the collapse of a concrete windowsill (originally suspected to be …

The image to the right is a cross section of a wooden frame external wall. Not all walls are made like this; on the contrary, many are made entirely differently. However, this is an example of a good wooden external wall. The make up of the wall is important to note and can be seen, …