Our customer contacted us through our website form after finding us on Nextdoor.

They had some cladding in their kitchen which desperately needed repairing following a leaky pipe above, which had been fixed prior to our arrival.

We removed all of the existing rotten wood and replaced it with new cladding. The customer wanted to paint the new cladding themselves once it was installed.

So what happened to summer? It seemed to fizzle out around mid July…. It's that time of year when a little maintenance goes a long way, recently we have had a lot of call-outs to repair/fix blocked or broken gutters and downpipes recently.

They say every day is a learning day, so hopefully this blog teaches you something pretty basic and pretty useful!  

Salt – it attracts moisture. We have all seen it before, leave a pot of salt open to the atmosphere (indoors) and it clumps together and goes hard, it has stuck together with the moisture from the air.  So what has this got to do with buildings?  

Water causes the most damage to buildings! Even above fire!

Most people are interested and surprised to learn this.

That dripping gutter you meant to fix ten years ago – seemed like a minor problem, but left unchecked it can cause a lot of damage to a structure because the slow drip drip drip has been chipping away at the building and causing all sort of unseen damage like rot, decay, paint peeling, etc.