Non-Traditional Building Survey - Pre-cast Concrete Airey Houses

Do you either own a Non-Traditional House or are thinking of buying a Non-Traditional House?

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We provide independent help and advice with regard to  property surveys, building surveys, structural reports, engineers reports, defects surveys and structural surveys matters.

We have carried out building surveys on many different types of non-traditional constructed properties over many decades.

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Non Traditional Pre-Cast Concrete Airey Houses were built after World War - take a look at our video below to find out more.

This video looks at property investment in non-traditional buildings and the risks and rewards, and how we as Building Surveyors can help you buy the right property at the right price.

What are Airey Houses?

The Airey House was developed by a Leeds builder Sir Edward Airey using concrete to design a house based on reinforced concrete columns.  Airey used a system whereby the concrete columns had steel reinforcement tubes this method of construction had the steel tubes extending at the ends of the columns which allowed ground and first floor columns to be cowled together and then the roof doweled to the first floor.  The Airey house had columns clad with reinforced concrete which were arranged in a ship-lap design and lined in a variety of materials.  The lining materials included wood wool, brick on edge, nut concrete clockwork, fibrebook with plasterboard being the most common.

What Constuction Problems can Airey Houses have?

The Airey House had concrete columns which stood on a damp proof course where as the columns had a steel reinforcement they became prone to corrosion.  Wind driven rain forcing through the cladding and condensation in the cavity wall gathering on the damp proof course caused the corrosion.  Furthermore the concrete columns were were so slight meaning that corrosion to the steel could occur at any point.

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