Step 1 · Age
When the building was constructed.
What we do, in detail
Four trades, with the asbestos question settled before any of them starts on an older building.
Program 01 · Inventory first
Insulation installation
The places insulation goes are the places asbestos was used: roof sheeting, insulation board, pipe lagging. So in a pre-2001 building we get the inventory before anything intrusive, and if something suspect appears we stop. We also state the thermal resistance we will actually install, because premium entitlement depends on the figure achieved rather than on the word insulated.
Step 2 · Inventory
Before any intrusive work.
Step 3 · Specify
The thermal value, in writing.
Step 4 · Install
Or stop, if asbestos appears.
Step 1 · Test patch
On an area you agree to.
Step 2 · Honest limit
What will not come back.
Step 3 · Clean
Products used to their data sheets.
Step 4 · Waste
Removed through an authorised route.
Program 02 · As MAGIC-CLEAN
Building and industrial cleaning
We will tell you when a surface will not come back. Stone that has been sealed with an unknown product, render already breaking down, a floor stained through its finish: aggressive cleaning on any of those makes it worse rather than better. Waste from cleaning leaves through an authorised collector, which is the part nobody sees and the part that matters.
Program 03 · Ten-year cover
Masonry
Work on a dwelling carries compulsory ten-year liability insurance in Belgium, and a contractor who cannot show it should not be working on your house. Ours is in place. On repointing we match the mortar to the brick rather than to convenience, because a mortar harder than the brick destroys the brick instead of protecting it.
Step 1 · Survey
Substrate, movement and damp.
Step 2 · Match
Mortar to the brick, not to habit.
Step 3 · Build
To the agreed detail.
Step 4 · Clean down
Site left as we found it.
Step 1 · Measure
Substrate moisture content.
Step 2 · Acclimatise
In the room, not the van.
Step 3 · Lay
With proper expansion gaps.
Step 4 · Finish
Snagged before handover.
Program 04 · Moisture decides it
Wooden floors and wall coverings
Wood moves, and almost every failed floor failed because of moisture or because it was laid too soon. We measure the substrate rather than judging it by eye, we let boards acclimatise in the room they will live in, and we leave the expansion gaps that make a floor look slightly unfinished at the edges and stay flat for years.
Got insulation, masonry or cleaning to price?
A free site visit and a written quotation, with the exclusions set out.