About Us
All Tied Up Ltd and her sister company Curepest Ltd have over 50 years combined experience within this field. Our fully trained staff will always try to acommodate your wishes to the best of their ability. We are fully insured and can offer a full range of guarantees and are enrolled in the goverment run Trust Mark scheme.
We are full members of the PCA formally known as the BWPDA. To become a member a company must be audited once a year and must employ at least one surveyor with the CSRT qualification.
All Tied Up Ltd has been an approved contractor of Sovereign Chemicals Ltd since 1984.
A full list of treatments follow below
Woodworm is a form of wood boring beetle. The common name is the Common furniture beetle and the latin name is Anobium punctatum.
It is quite common however for the term woodworm to be used for all of the wood boring beetles. If an infestation is found early and fully treated then it is rare for the need for any timber replacement. However if the conditions are right for the infestation to spread then the replacement of timbers becomes more likely.
The treatment for most of the wood boring beetles is a light water based spray. The active ingredients of these sprays has changed greatly over the years. This means the current spray treatments no longer leave the strong smell that was once common and the owner can re-enter the property the same day.
Serpula lacrymans or Dry rot as it is commonly known is one of the most agressive forms of fungal decay. It is however quite rare, in most cases the decay found in buildings is one of the many forms of wet rot. Dry rot can be treated but the best cure is prevention and it is wiser to keep your property in good repair so fungal decay does not get to the conditions it needs to become established.
If you start to find a red dust on surfaces that you have not noticed before, or joinery cracking with no sign of dampness, it would be wise to have a survey carried out as these are often the first signs of an outbreak of dry rot.
Rising Damp is quite common in the older property of all types. It was not until the Public Heath Act of 1876-79 that the installation of a damp course was recommended into domestic buildings. When these were installed they were commonly a double layer of slate incorporated into the lower section of brickwork. Over time these were liable to crack and fail.
Even in the later property with a cavity, dampness can be a problem. Debris can build up in the cavity and "bridge" the damp course. These later properties can also have damp course problems as a poured bitumen was commonly used in later years and this was not always sufficient to keep the rising dampness at bay. The main problem with rising damp, be it through damp course failure or bridging of the damp course, is the ground salts it carries with it. The only way the correct this is the removal of the internal plaster and the appropriate type of re-plastering to be carried out.
Cavity wall tie corrosion is when the metal tie that holds the two leaves of brick work together is affected by rainwater and rusts. The action of the tie rusting makes the tie expand this forces the courses of brickwork apart. This can in some instances cause the outer leaf of brickwork to fail and fall.
All cavity replacement work carried out by All Tied Up Ltd is covered by a 30 year T.U.G. guarantee issued by Triton chemicals Ltd.