DAMP ! === We have the solution for your villa or apartment

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
26/07/2010 07:51

Does you villa or apartment suffer from damp?



Design and construction methods ensure that many properties suffer from rising damp as well as damp from other sources. We are able to prevent future damp problems quickly and inexpensively.



When the root cause has been eliminated and the property has fully dried out you will then be able to repair and redecorate. We can help you with this but acting acting on the cause before it rains again is your key to success and the whole sorry cycle restarts.



Call us now to arrange a free inspection.



Tel: 0533 836 7094/5 === Email: cyprussolutions@hotmail.com



John Webster

Cyprus Solutions

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
27/07/2010 09:54

......and don't forget the many other services we can provide.



Modify your drains to enable you to flush toilet paper

Banish drain smells from you villa

Guttering

Replacement water heater elements

Water heater timers to save money

Clean and sterilise your water tanks

Convert your cess pit into a septic tank

Pump repair

Pressurise your water system

Install additional water tanks for mains supply, pool backwash or rainwater collection

Solar panels

General repairs and much else.

trnclion


Joined: 25/04/2009
Posts: 61

Message Posted:
27/07/2010 13:19

Hi



Just out of interest do you have sample homes to show where the remedial repair is over 12 months old and

still in perfect condition?



We have previously spent a small fortune having remedial damp proofing carried out without success yet every workman claimed to have the answer to the Cyprus damp problem!

Jimmyboy63


Joined: 16/03/2009
Posts: 400

Message Posted:
27/07/2010 15:15

Excellent post!!!!

I agree heard it all before

halffull


Joined: 26/01/2009
Posts: 571

Message Posted:
27/07/2010 16:55

Jimmyboy63, if you've heard it all before, what's the answer????

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
27/07/2010 17:42

trnclion



I'm happy to come and look at your villa if you so wish. As I said above just phone or email me. It sounds like your villa's damp problem is pretty intransigent. Until I see it I can't say if we can help. If I am doubtful you will be the second to know.



John

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
19/08/2010 13:55

trnclion



Looking forward to your call.



John

0533 836 7094

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
19/08/2010 15:47

Many ex pats refer to villas as "concrete tents". After aggregating some 15 years of living in the Med I think of them as "concrete sponges". I am sure that there is remedial work and applications which will result in varying degrees of success but in my experience it goes right to the root, so to speak. The villa needs to be double brick, cavity filled, on a damp course or some other build equally defensive to damp, from the outset. The heat within during winter months needs to be a dry heat supplied by way of radiators using oil or gas. Burning gas bottles, oil burners, and the like for heat can lead to mold on walls, wardrobes, bedding and soft furnishings. This does not come cheap but better than being in hospital with "fungi" instead of lungs. With the wisdom of hindsight we also have no flat roofs whatsoever not even over patios and our roof solarium is wooden decking so that rain water and humidity goes to ground and not walls.

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
19/08/2010 16:21

or perhaps you would like to try Cyprus Damp Cure run by Stuart Hillard FRICS. Most importantly the builder will guarantee the work.



http://www.cyprusdampcure.com

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
19/08/2010 16:33

malsancak



Very interesting. Couldn't agree with him more. Especially where he says:



"The Cyprus solution of rubbing down plaster and re-decorating will not solve the problem although this appears to be the way many builders work. If the remedial works are inadequate then the damp reappears very quickly as many people are finding. For the works to be effective the root cause needs to be identified, the problem cured or isolated before remedial works of repair and redecoration take place."



Indeed we don't do plastering and redecorating. We leave that to others unless there is a very small amount indeed of remedial work to be done well after the root cause has been dealt with.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
19/08/2010 16:35

Referring back to message 3, do you have sample homes to show where the remedial repair is over 12 months old and still in perfect condition?

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
19/08/2010 16:50

No1Doyen



Do you have a damp problem? If so I would be more that happy to come and see you. Ring me to make an appointment.



John

0533 836 7094

Cyprus Solutions.

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
19/08/2010 17:02

My solution is a few sticks of dynamite.

Jimmyboy63


Joined: 16/03/2009
Posts: 400

Message Posted:
19/08/2010 18:18

John



what about the question in mess 3????

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
19/08/2010 20:55

Perhaps John has only just started up his business and can't show long term successes yet?

cooper


Joined: 23/10/2007
Posts: 3386

Message Posted:
20/08/2010 20:57

Re Msg 12 I'm sure he does but i think he is managing quite well with Pampers at the moment ) sorry No1 i couldn't resist.

CarrieRBag



Joined: 23/12/2008
Posts: 1374

Message Posted:
20/08/2010 22:31

You might have the solution but I emailed you 2 days ago and you still have not responded?