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Understanding housing defects [electronic resource]

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: London Estates Gazette 2003Edition: 2nd edDescription: eBookISBN:
  • 0728204177
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 690.25
Online resources: Summary: Provides a comprehensive introduction to the causes, investigation and diagnosis of housing defects. Explains why and how defects occur and how defects can be recognised and identified. Includes chapters on legal definitions and implications, foundations, walls, brickwork, floors, roofs, external rendering, plastering, timber pests, condensation, damp, system building and services. Appendix summarises five distinct periods of housing construction.Summary: This title is also available as an eBook.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the causes, investigation and diagnosis of housing defects. Explains why and how defects occur and how defects can be recognised and identified. Includes chapters on legal definitions and implications, foundations, walls, brickwork, floors, roofs, external rendering, plastering, timber pests, condensation, damp, system building and services. Appendix summarises five distinct periods of housing construction.

This title is also available as an eBook.

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