This article about artex and asbestos is a guide to help raise awareness of the possible risks – if you need help with asbestos, contact a professional such as ourselves for help and advice. Asbestos is a hazardous substance which, if is found in materials (particularly if it is disturbed) can cause serious health risks… Read More »Artex and Textured Coatings – Possible Asbestos Risks
A good borescope camera is one of the useful and essential pieces of leak detection equipment that we utilise to help find local water leaks, damp, investigate mould issues in houses and other things when inspecting or surveying properties. Borescope cameras, sometimes known as endoscope cameras, endoscopy (or even fibrescope cameras), allow you to see… Read More »Borescope Cameras – Essential for Leak Detection
As well as being local leak detection specialists in the York area, Rainbow Restoration is a Water Damage Restoration company, and one of the services we offer is Pressure Drying, which is sometimes called injection drying, which we will explain further in this article. Pressure Drying is an advanced drying solution utilising specialist drying equipment… Read More »Pressure Drying – Advanced Solution Benefits
Having a leak under houses in the UK can be a worrying time, not only can it be challenging to find the leak but also cause significant water damage to your home or business. But thankfully, we are not only experts in leak detection, all of our front-line staff are qualified water damage management experts.… Read More »Leak Under House – What is Best to do to Sort it
One of the most common types of water leak detection work that we carry out is underfloor leaks and, within that group, a common subset is that of underfloor heating leaks. In this guide, we will explore them. In some instances, underfloor heating leaks can have electric underfloor heating but clearly, that is extremely unlikely… Read More »Underfloor Heating Leak – What’s Best to Do?
As experienced, skilled Trace and Access experts, we utilise a range of professional leak detectors which, in the hands of a skilled technician help to maximise the chances of finding water leaks in homes and businesses, doing commercial leak detection in the local area. In this article we will look at one of the best… Read More »Leak Detectors – Best Ways to Find a Water Leak
In order to understand what is condensation, you firstly have to go back to basics. Condensation in your house is generally water but why do you get it and where does it come from? As you likely know, water exists in three forms solid (ice), liquid (water) and gas (vapour, steam and humidity) and in… Read More »What is Condensation? – Simple and Useful Guide
When carrying out local water leak detection services and water damage management services too, we frequently come across wet wood which has been exposed to the water from a leak, or associated damp issues. In this article we’ll review a test we did which simulated a water leak coming into contact with engineered wood, including… Read More »Wet Wood – Water Damage Risks After a Leak
A piece of equipment that is utilised within the water damage management industry (including water leak damage) is an air scrubber. We will look in more detail later as to how air scrubbers work, but like many pieces of equipment, they come in various designs, shapes and sizes from different manufacturers. That said, different air… Read More »Air Scrubbers Guide – What Are They Best For?
After we had covered our water leak detection work and found the water leak, as water damage management experts too, we give our customers help and advice with regard to drying the water from the leak. When having that conversation with people, we sometimes get asked “will it dry on its own”. In this article… Read More »Will a Concrete Leak Dry? – Best Advice, Tested