A damp survey is a moisture investigation that names rising damp, penetrating damp, or condensation before any treatment is sold. It is for houses and smaller buildings in England, Scotland, and Wales when a stain, tide mark, or mould is unexplained. Send the quote form or WhatsApp with the postcode.
Damp Survey & Moisture Report
A visit with moisture meters and, where it helps, thermal imaging. You get the damp type, how far it goes, and the repair that matches it. This is our survey for specifying work. It is not a RICS home survey.
Rising damp, penetrating damp, condensation, a bridged course, a plumbing leak, and wet timber are separated. One of those is named. “Damp” on its own is not a diagnosis.
The quote is built from the report. You can see whether injection, an outside repair, ventilation, or basement work is being proposed, and what is excluded.
We do not provide a RICS Level 2 or Level 3 home survey, a valuation, or a mortgage valuation. If you need a surveyor who does not also carry out the repair, appoint one separately.
Damp Survey & Moisture Report
Height, salts, and whether it tracks rain tell the type. A meter reading without that context is not a report.
Ground levels, gutters, pointing, and render are part of an internal stain. The survey includes the elevation, not only the wallpaper.
Thermal imaging is used where condensation is the question, so a cold corner is not sold a damp-proof course.
If the damp meets a joist or a cellar, the report says so. Hidden timber is not guessed.
A wet patch by a pipe, cistern, or radiator is checked as plumbing before any damp treatment is proposed.
You leave with the cause and the work that follows from it. The quote is built from that note.
When it started, whether it follows rain, and what previous repairs were tried all change the inspection.
When it started, whether it follows rain, and what previous repairs were tried all change the inspection.
Meters, salts, ground levels, and the rainwater fittings are recorded together.
The note says rising damp, penetrating damp, condensation, a leak, or a combination.
If a damp-proof course would not help, the report says that.
Injection, replastering, outside repairs, ventilation, or basement work are separate lines.
The guarantee later refers back to the treatment this survey specified.
There is no treatment price inside the survey itself. The survey is what stops a single “damp proofing” figure being guessed. After it, each repair is priced on its own factors: metres of wall, plaster, outside defects, ventilation, or below-ground area.
Questions that decide whether this is the right job.
No. It is our moisture survey so we can specify and quote the repair. For a surveyor who will not do the work, instruct a RICS surveyor.
Photos help us see the pattern. They are not a survey and they are not a quote.
No. If the cause is rain, condensation, or a bridge over a sound course, injection is not the recommendation.
The postcode, which floor the mark is on, whether it is worse after rain, and a photo if you have one.
Tell us the floor, whether it follows rain, and the postcode. The quote follows the survey.
Get Your Free QuoteGroundwater travels up through brickwork when the damp-proof course is missing or has failed.
Learn more about Rising Damp TreatmentMoisture that comes through the wall from outside, including on older solid-wall houses.
Learn more about Penetrating Damp SolutionsAirflow and temperature are managed, often with ventilation, so indoor humidity comes down.
Learn more about Condensation Control SystemsSurveys run in Kent, Cardiff, and Glasgow, and in the other counties and towns on the areas page.
Name the room, the floor, and what the wall is doing. WhatsApp takes the same details.