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uses for a moisture meter

  • 16-11-2010 05:59PM
    #1
    geordief
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 475 ✭✭


    As I am getting one of these quite soon (to test for damp in the plaster of the interior side of external walls) I am wondering if it can be any use for testing for leaks in flat roofs-under the felt)
    Also ,where the sloping slates have been covered the rain has been coming in somewhere where the felt meets the slates and I can't for the life of me see where (even after more than a year of periodic squinting and head scratching)
    I realise that I should either get a professional roofer or tear up and retorch or replace the felt but I haven't done so to date .
    So can this moisture meter (product id n85hx on the Maplins website =maplin.co.uk) be of any use in this regard -as a diagnostic tool?


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  • #2
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    geordief wrote: »
    As I am getting one of these quite soon (to test for damp in the plaster of the interior side of external walls) I am wondering if it can be any use for testing for leaks in flat roofs-under the felt)
    Also ,where the sloping slates have been covered the rain has been coming in somewhere where the felt meets the slates and I can't for the life of me see where (even after more than a year of periodic squinting and head scratching)
    I realise that I should either get a professional roofer or tear up and retorch or replace the felt but I haven't done so to date .
    So can this moisture meter (product id n85hx on the Maplins website =maplin.co.uk) be of any use in this regard -as a diagnostic tool?

    If you know what the ambient moisure %age of the existing timber should be, it'll be easy enough to find out where there are wet patches, but that's about it.


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