Llandudno, Conwy
Victorian seafront stock,
surveyed properly.
Llandudno was built quickly and confidently in the second half of the nineteenth century, and much of it is still standing in its original form: tall rendered terraces, hotels and guest houses on the promenade, and villas running back towards the Great Orme.
The local stock
What Llandudno is built from.
Tall rendered terraces, full exposure
Four and five storeys facing open sea. Render at that height takes driven rain and thermal movement, cracks at the junctions and lets water into solid walls. The tallest elevations are the hardest to inspect and the most likely to be the cause.
Large buildings, complex roofs
Long roof and gutter runs, parapets, valley gutters and flat junctions between phases of extension. One blocked outlet behind a parapet can wet a wall for a whole season with nothing visible from the ground.
Cellars and sloping sites
Substantial houses with cellars, built into rising ground. Raised rear ground levels and blocked cellar ventilation produce the classic tide mark that gets injected and then returns.
'Obtain a specialist report'
A great deal of our Llandudno work follows a homebuyer's survey that flagged high meter readings and stopped there. An independent report tells you what it actually is and what the repair costs — while you can still use it.
Worth knowing
Independent means no quote at the end.
There is an obvious conflict in asking a company that sells damp-proofing whether you need damp-proofing. In a town with this much Victorian stock and this much property changing hands, that conflict costs buyers real money.
We survey and report. There is no treatment arm, no commission and no quote waiting at the end — so if the answer is a fifteen-pound gutter bracket, that is what the report says.
What you get
The survey itself.
Internal moisture profile
Readings at height intervals across affected walls, so a pattern emerges rather than a single number.
Salt analysis
Hygroscopic salts separate genuine rising damp from a leak or from condensation. It is the test most treatment quotes skip.
External defect inspection
Render, pointing, downpipes, ground levels, slate. The cause is outside far more often than it is in the wall.
Air and surface conditions
Temperature, humidity and surface readings — the evidence that separates a ventilation problem from water ingress.
Independent and insured. We survey; we do not sell treatments, so there is no quote waiting at the end of the report.
Nearby
Also covered from Llangefni.
Llandudno and the surrounding area
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