DC Property Services

06/10/2024

Nice acoustic panelling Job completed this weekend in Manchester City centre. The customer required this room to be soundproof and called me to fit the panels and hang a few tvs and shelves around the office. They were really happy with the outcome and asked me to come and do two more rooms for them. I really like the look.

05/10/2024

Go to love a tidy van, all loaded back in and never working in city centre again 😂

04/10/2024

When working in the city centre you don’t risk going back and forth to a carpark you unload your van on the job 😜

02/10/2024

Small repair done in Eccles this morning, the down pipe had come apart in the bad wether earlier this week, I reconnected the downspout and added a couple of extra clips for support. This won’t be coming away again. If you have any home repairs you want fixing just drop us a message

30/09/2024

Hi guys, with the recent bad weather causing havoc I imagine there are plenty of people wanting their gutters looking at, maybe you can see it spilling out of a joint and it may be as simple as replacing the rubbers. Give us a message and we will come out and give a free no obligation quote on any works you need to make sure this weather isn’t causing more damage to your property.

26/09/2024

Had a call from a returning customer that they may have a leak as they have noticed a brown stain on the ceiling. There were 13 seperate pinhole leaks in those section of pipe. Cause unknown but all replaced and flooring back down like no one was ever there.

21/09/2024

Another quick job done today for a repeat customer. She thought she had a ceiling leak and removed the old tiles for inspection and they couldn’t be reused so supplied and fitted new ones

21/09/2024

Inlet valve replaced in a cistern this morning. The customer was quoted some ridiculous prices to replace this with one guy quoting £80 for parts alone. We completed the job for £50 parts and Labour. Another happy customer

13/05/2024

Arrived at a job this morning to tile a floor and I had to advise the homeowner to have the floor relayed due to dry rot. There was lots of evidence of a wood boring beetle and the builder assumed it would be ok as long as everything was dry but this was not the case. Overall a happy customer and a floor that will last as long as the rest of the bathroom

30/04/2024

Bit of patching up for a plumber who wanted to move the toilet in this bathroom the wall was falling down under the window and needed to be rebuilt to be able to Core out for the toilet waste

18/04/2024

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Shared this a HUNDRED TIMES but people are still asking for “injections” on many property forums

YOU ARE WASTING YOUR REFURBISHMENT BUDGET 🚧

Read this 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Stephen Boniface, former chairman of the construction arm of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), has told the institute’s 40,000 members that ‘true rising damp’ is a MYTH 👻 and chemically injected damp-proof courses (DPC) are ‘a complete waste of money’. 🤬

In response, the RICS has put the term ‘rising damp’ in inverted commas in its latest factsheet – according to Boniface, as a ‘non-subtle hint’ to its members. 💥💥

‘The most likely causes of damp are moisture pe*******on and, most commonly, condensation,’ said Boniface in an interview with NBS Learning Channels 💯💯

In response, Elaine Blackett-Ord, chair of the Register of Architects Accredited in Building Conservation, has also spoken out against rising damp, saying it was as rare as ‘rocking-horse s**t’. 🐴 💩

Blackett-Ord said:‘’This self-perpetuating industry is believed to be worth over £200 million per year.’ 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

’Not only are chemically injected DPCs a waste of time, they are ineffective and grossly expensive. [Installing] damaging impermeable cement based internal renders…serve simply to conceal the problem in the wall behind.

For most historic buildings this is extremely damaging and irreversible.’

Jeff Howell, a qualified bricklayer 🧱 and author of The Rising Damp Myth (2008) said trials in the laboratory confirm the falsehood. 🙏🏻

‘If you build a brick pillar and stand it in a tray of water, the bricks in the water will get wet, but the water doesn’t rise by capillary action,’ said Howell.

And any builder you employ that wants to sell you this utter s**t … run 🏃‍♀️ away immediately