Damp Proofing & Timber Treatment in Melton Mowbray

Damp Proofing Specialists Serving Melton Mowbray

Dower Damp Proofing provides professional damp surveys and damp proofing services in Melton Mowbray and surrounding areas across Leicestershire. Melton Mowbray is a well-established market town best known for its food heritage, but its housing stock - which ranges from Georgian townhouses around Nottingham Street to Victorian terraces near Scalford Road and agricultural cottages in outlying villages - presents a wide variety of damp challenges. We identify the source before recommending any treatment.

We are a third-generation family business based in Grantham, around 16 miles from Melton Mowbray. Our approach is straightforward - we identify the source of damp before recommending any treatment. In Melton Mowbray, where the housing stock ranges from town-centre Georgian to rural agricultural cottages, each property type requires a different investigative approach to get the diagnosis right.

Melton Mowbray has a varied housing stock shaped by its role as a market town at the heart of the Vale of Belvoir. Georgian properties around Nottingham Street and Burton Street are among the best in the town, but many were built without a damp proof course and show classic rising damp symptoms through their solid brick or stone walls. Victorian terraces in the Scalford Road area are densely packed and prone to penetrating damp where shared chimney stacks and valley gutters have been poorly maintained. Agricultural worker cottages in outlying villages are often of older solid-wall construction - sometimes rubble stone or unfired brick - which can be challenging to assess accurately and requires a careful approach during any remedial specification.