September 6, 2024
Types Of Roof Ventilation Explained
Roof ventilation facilitates continuous airflow through the roof space, and prevents the build-up of warm…
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Articles and insights from Cavity Trays
August 8, 2024
Why Fire Rated Cavity Closers Are Essential for Modern Safety and Confinement
Fire rated cavity closers are essential for modern building safety. They play a critical role…
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August 8, 2024
What Are Wall Gables?
What are Wall Gables? Cavity wall gables refer to the triangular section of a wall…
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August 8, 2024
What Is A Weep Vent?
Cavity trays are essential components in construction, ensuring moisture control within cavity walls. One critical…
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May 10, 2024
Damp Proof Courses
Damp-proof courses (DPCs) are critical components in construction, preventing dampness from rising through walls and…
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April 16, 2024
Non-Combustible Fire-rated Beak Weep
Cavity Trays is proud to introduce a new evolution in cavity trays for high-rise buildings:…
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March 11, 2024
Circular Cavitray Control
Circular openings in external cavity walls require DPC protection to ensure penetrating rain is prevented…
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March 11, 2024
Building Envelope = 20 – 5 = 30?
During December ‘23 and January ’24, the cold, windy weather experienced in the UK caused…
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February 12, 2024
House Builders Standard Solution Solves Threshold Problems
Thresholds play a crucial role in the construction of buildings. They are the transition points…
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January 31, 2024
Elevation Evaluation
Water penetration of the exterior leaf of a masonry wall is a common problem that…
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January 9, 2024
Damp after the storm
The recent weather conditions have brought to light ten construction details that can pose a…
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December 19, 2023
Job Opening: Estimator – Head Office Yeovil
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, conscientious individual who is able to work self-sufficiently…
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November 30, 2023
A new Chapter in DPCs and Trays
The NHBC has released updated guidance on the provision of cavity trays to ‘complicated junctions’.…
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September 22, 2023
Interfacing Cavity Barrier Stops
Smoke + Fire + Water + Sound 2.2BR(S) – mandatory Every building that is divided…
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September 22, 2023
Masonry Sills – Avoid the Achilles Heel
Masonry Sills – Avoid the Achilles Heel. A masonry sill in brick, tile or stone…
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September 22, 2023
Getting an Exempt Conservatory Out of the Ground Economically
Out of the Ground Economically Sub structure work to a conservatory can be restricted to…
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September 22, 2023
Thermal Bridging Construction Details – Enhancements
Cavity Trays Ltd, the longest-established company in its specialised field has drawn attention to the…
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September 22, 2023
Parapet Cavity Wall Movement: Insights from PD 6697
Parapet cavity walls behave differently because both faces are exposed. Such dual exposure dictates protection…
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September 22, 2023
Warmer Window and Door Opening Support Arrangement
Supporting an opening within a cavity wall using separate lintels that do not connect and…
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September 22, 2023
Triangular Weep Modernises Traditional Practice
Getting water out of any masonry wall at one time utilised reed straw, chosen because…
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September 22, 2023
Cavity Walls – Water Control Assessment Essential
Cavity Walls – Water Control Assessment Essential When the top of an opening within a…
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September 22, 2023
Venting the Extension Where it Joins?
There is commonly a requirement to provide roof ventilation when extending a property. Where a…
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September 22, 2023
Cavity Tray Requirement with Conservatories
In 2013 the Department for Communities and Local Government issued a directive regarding conservatories and…
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September 22, 2023
Tread Carefully Using the BS 8215 DPC Staircase
Tread Carefully Using the BS 8215 DPC Staircase Various British Standards have been withdrawn in…
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September 22, 2023
Masonry Structural Stability and Surface Staining
The practice of providing support to cavity-spanning DPC’s by building into both masonry skins came…
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September 22, 2023
Overwhelmed Wet Walls?
Overwhelmed Wet Walls? Can masonry really be overwhelmed? This was the question posed by the…
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September 22, 2023
Protection and Wet Deflection – Best Practice
Protection and Wet Deflection – Best Practice. Avoiding exterior skin deficiency There are situations where…
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September 22, 2023
Cavitray BWVC Solves Damp Dilemma
Cavitray BWVC Solves Damp Dilemma A builder who had constructed houses with bay windows in…
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September 22, 2023
Are you DPC Compliant?
Are You DPC Compliant? Construction is an amalgam of disciplines, in which varying Standards, build…
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September 22, 2023
The Cavity Wall Performance Question?
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September 22, 2023
Cavity Wall Reveal – Improved Performance
Cavity Wall Reveal – Improved Performance The review of Part L highlights the importance of…
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September 22, 2023
Failure of Gable Walls
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September 22, 2023
Level Threshold Cavitray (Threshold Isolation DPC)
Type LTT Level Threshold Cavitray (Threshold Isolation DPC) The new British Standard BS 8102 released in…
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September 22, 2023
Determining Damp Course Dimensions
Growth Rate of 2.5 mm per Year! It’s unusual to provide a lineal measurement to…
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September 22, 2023
Cavity Barrier Problem
Cavity Barrier Problem. Timer Frame construction is one form of construction that calls for the…
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September 22, 2023
The New Part L and NHBC Conservatory Construction
Good news is contained in the new Building Regulations Approved Documents L1A and L1B that…
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September 22, 2023
UK Homes and New Radon Target Level
Responsibility now and in the future? It has been known for many years that radon…
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September 22, 2023
Gable Abutments – Consider the Relationship Between Inner and Outer Skins
Brick and block dimensions and styles are now more varied and consequently it is common…
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September 22, 2023
Why Protecting Gable End Insulation from Water Ingress is Essential
Why Protecting Gable End Insulation from Water Ingress is Essential The insulation terminates at plate…
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September 22, 2023
Concave and Convex Cavity Walls
Concave and Convex Cavity Walls Caution with Window Openings and Abutments As well as affecting…
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September 22, 2023
Residual transference in cavity wall masonry
Residual transference in cavity wall masonry Minimal residual transference can occur in cavity walls where…
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September 22, 2023
Cavity Impingement Affects Most Construction
Cavity Impingement Affects Most Construction Impingement of the cavity width occurs naturally whenever a…
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September 22, 2023
Water Penetration and Retention
Water Penetration and Retention Water arrested by the lintel and damp course over window and…
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September 22, 2023
Rotational Movement Through Cavity Wall Openings
Rotational Movement Through Cavity Wall Openings Timber-frame construction requires the designer and builder to be…
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September 22, 2023
Consider meeting and complying with ADL1A 2010
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September 22, 2023
Cavity Wall Reveal Performance Diminishes
Cavity Wall Reveal Performance Diminishes It is unlikely the Government will reduce its commitment to…
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September 22, 2023
Avoid going adrift on a raft
Avoid going adrift on a raft When site conditions dictate the use of raft construction,…
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September 22, 2023
Insulated Floor/Wall Junctions and Compliance Risk?
Insulated Floor/Wall Junctions and Potential Weakness? The provision of insulating mediums under or on top…
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September 22, 2023
Where Timber Frame and Floors Meet – Best Practice
Where Timber Frame and Floors Meet – Best Practice Your Risk and Cost Considerations The…
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September 22, 2023
Ventilating Under Floors – Your Choices Increased
Ventilating Under Floors – Your Choices Increased The Building Regulations require voids under suspended concrete…
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September 22, 2023
A Discreet Method of Removing Water That Permeates Masonry
A Discreet Method of Removing Water That Permeates Masonry Water retention within cavity wall masonry…
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