Cavity wall insulation removal in Wisbech

A cavity wall works by keeping the weather on the outer skin of brick. Fill it with insulation that has got wet or slumped and it bridges the gap, carrying damp straight through to the inside. If walls in your Wisbech home have grown damp patches or cold spots since the cavities were filled, the fill is the first thing to suspect.

How it goes wrong

Badly installed fill, or fill that has soaked up water over the years, settles inside the wall and forms a bridge between the two skins. Rain on the outer brick then tracks across, and you see it indoors: damp that returns after every repaint, cold corners and mould that keeps coming back.

Getting it out

We extract the material, drilling out and removing the fill until the cavity is clear again, so damp has nothing to cross. What we find and what we do are photographed, and the quote and the finished job are both put in writing.

Which houses it affects

The Georgian and Victorian houses at the heart of Wisbech are mostly solid-walled, so this is a problem for the later homes: the postwar streets and the newer estates around the town, which were the ones filled during decades of insulation schemes. It often surfaces at a sale, when a survey picks up damp readings and the buyer wants to know why.

Looked at before it is priced

Ring 01945 750142 or send the form. We look at the walls inside and out, photograph what we find, explain it plainly and put the price in writing. The price quoted is the price paid, and the work is guaranteed for five or ten years depending on the job.