Location: Warkworth, Oxfordshire
Type of property: Brick and stone barn conversion
Services used:
Materials used:
- Delta System Meshed Membrane
- Delta MS500
- Treated battens
- Delta System Ventilation Profile
- Plasterboard
- Plaster
- Treated Skirting Boards
Problem: Using a conductivity moisture metre, positive readings were recorded to the plastered wall surfaces, rising from base level to a maximum height of 1.4 metres, indicating the lack of an effective damp course. There was also a high salt contamination of low-level plaster, the result of former usage as an agricultural building. The thing to bear in mind is the dampness that penetrated the buildings structures came from the ground here animals were kept, and therefore highly likely to be contaminated with animal waste. To make this agricultural building conversion safe for human inhabitation, all the contaminated plaster must be removed.
Works completed:
Beginning the removal of contaminated materials:
Removal and disposal of skirting boards, cut back the ceiling in sufficiently to vent waterproof membrane into the void.
Then, the plaster was hacked off to a height of 1.0 metres and disposed of.
Next we installed waterproofing membrane a height of 1.0 metres height and installed more to the under stairs wall.
We constructed a new freestanding partition to create a new room and installed more waterproof membrane to a height of 1.0 metre.
To finish the job, we supplied and installed 2” x 1” treated battens up to ceiling level and installed ventilation profile, followed by the installation of plasterboard to the meshed membrane and to all battened sections. We included a skim finish, leaving the surfaces ready for the client’s decoration, including the supply and installation of replacement skirting boards.
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