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Loft conversions, Damp Proofing , Kitchen installations, Bathroom installations

Tanking Treatments & Services in Lancashire, Manchester, Greater Merseyside and Cheshire.

Liquid bitumen coating, Cement based slurry, Air gap membranes

Damp walls are cold walls. Moisture passing through a wall carries dissolved `salts'. When salt reaches the surface of plaster or paint it spoils the decorations and eventually `blows' the plaster. Such walls are also very prone to Condensation and hence Black Spot Mould. If the walls are below the damp proof course, partially below ground, or `earth retaining', they will always be damp. Traditionally the way around this problem was to cover up the damp with wooden paneling, but this tends to rot. So, `tanking treatments' were invented - in its original form a waterproof, liquid coating that bonds to damp masonry. If you need any help with damp walls, tanking treatments,or cellar tanking our staff here at Allkare Tanking UK will be pleased to give you completely free, no obligation advice on 0800 731 9121. The information you need may be in the project below. If not, call us.

Tanking Treatments

The three main tanking treatment methods are:

Liquid bitumen coating - painted onto the cleaned brickwork, stone, block or render - difficult to apply to old, damp salty masonry, prone to separation from the wall and render coats due to incomplete curing. This type of tanking treatment is best for non-critical small jobs, or external coating below the damp proof course.

Cement based slurry - applied by soft brush onto damped, cleaned brickwork, stone, block or render - easier to apply because the cement base wants to amalgamate with the masonry and mortar. Not a true vapour barrier, so needs to be finished with `breathing' materials. This type of tanking treatment is ideal for partial below ground situations or exterior coating on foundation walls.

Air gap membranes - not strictly `tanking' in the same way as liquids - it is a dimpled plastic sheet fixed onto brick, stone, block or render with plastic plugs to form an air gap cavity. These Membranes can have a plain surface, for battening or a Mesh surface for direct plastering or plaster boarding. This type of tanking treatment is ideal for cold, single leaf walls and for lining rooms with cold solid 9 inch walls.

Tanking Treatments & Services NW England
Lancashire Liquid bitumen coating, Cement based slurry, Air gap membranes

Accrington Bacup Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Burnley Bury Carnforth Chorley Clitheroe Colne Darwen Fleetwood Formby Garstang Great Harwood Haslingden Heysham Hornby Kirkham Lancaster Leigh Liverpool Lytham St Annes Morecambe Newton-le-Willows Oldham Ormskirk Pendle Poulton-le-Fylde Prescot Preston Rawtenstall Rochdale Salford Skelmersdale Southport St Helens Warton Widnes Wigan Winsford

Tanking Treatments & Services NW England
Greater Manchester Liquid bitumen coating, Cement based slurry, Air gap membranes

Abram Altrincham Ashton-in-Makerfield Ashton-under-Lyne Astley Atherton Baguley Barton upon Irwell Bickershaw Birch Blackrod Bolton Bowdon Bradshaw Bramhall Bredbury Broadheath Bromley Cross Bryn Bury Carrington Castleton Chadderton Cheadle Cheadle Hulme Chequerbent Darcy Lever Davyhulme Delph Denton Diggle Droylsden Dukinfield Eccles Ellenbrook Failsworth Farnworth Flixton Golborne Gorton Greenfield Guide Bridge Haigh Harwood Hazel Grove Heaton Chapel Heaton Norris Heywood . Hindley Holcombe Hollingworth Hollinwood Horwich Hyde Ince-in-Makerfield Irlam Kearsley Lees Leigh Levenshulme Little Hulton Little Lever Littleborough Longdendale Lowton Manchester Marple Mellor Micklehurst Middleton (Gt Mcr) Millbrook Milnrow Moorside Mossley Moston Mottram in Longdendale New Delph New Hey Newton Heath Northenden Oldham Openshaw Partington Patricroft Pemberton Pendlebury Prestwich Radcliffe Ramsbottom Reddish Ringley Ringway Rochdale Romiley Royton Rusholme Saddleworth Sale Salford Shaw Shevington Smithy Bridge Stalybridge Standish Stockport Stretford Stubbins Summerseat Swinton Timperley Tottington Trafford Park Tyldesley Uppermill Urmston Victoria Park Walkden Walmersley Warburton Wardle Weaste West Gorton Westhoughton Whitefield Wigan Woodley Worsley Wythenshawe

Tanking Treatments & Services NW England
Merseyside Liquid bitumen coating, Cement based slurry, Air gap membranes

Aigburth Ainsdale Aintree Appleton Appleton Thorn Barton Bebington Bidston Billinge Birkenhead Blundellsands Bootle Bromborough Burtonwood
Caldy Childwall Clock Face Collins Green Crank Croft Cronton Crosby Culcheth Deysbrook Dingle Earlestown Eastham Eccleston Fazakerley Formby Garston Garswood Glazebrook Glazebury Greasby Great Sankey Halewood Haydock Heswall Higher Bebington Hightown Hoylake Huyton Huyton Quarry Ince Blundell Kenyon Kirkby Knowsley Latchford Litherland Little Crosby Liverpool Lower Bebington Lydiate Maghull Melling Moreton Mossley Hill New Boston New Brighton New Ferry Newchurch Newton-le-Willows Old Boston Padgate Port Sunlight Prescot Rainford Rainhill Risley Roby Rock Ferry Seacombe Seaforth Sefton Southport Speke St. Helens Stockton Heath Stretton Thatto Heath Thelwall Thornton Thurstaston Toxteth Upton Wallasey Walton Warrington
Wavertree West Derby West Kirby Winwick Woodchurch Woolton

Tanking Treatments & Services NW England
Cheshire Liquid bitumen coating, Cement based slurry, Air gap membranes

Alderley Edge Aldford Altrincham Astbury Ashton Hayes Audlem Beeston Birkenhead Bollington Bramhall Chester Congleton Crewe Disley Ellesmere Port Frodsham Hazel Grove Holmes Chapel Ince Knutsford Lymm Macclesfield Malpas Marple Middlewich Mobberley Mottram Nantwich Northwich Poynton Prestbury Runcorn Sandbach Stockport Tarvin Tarporley Tilston Warburton Warrington West Kirby Wilmslow Wrenbury