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• Apr 25, 2013

  Recommended Reading: Salt Attack & Rising Damp in Buildings

  This publication is a great reference for builders and for anyone considering building or renovating - particularly for understanding rising damp in older houses. Salt can be an incredibly destructive compound, and understanding how salt damp behaves is the first step in designing a solution to control and prevent salt attack. Efflock is an ideal product to prevent the transport of salt throughout masonry. Efflock is excellent for use in new construction to prevent efflorescence and damp problems in tiled patios and wet areas, but can be used in many different applications such as render and brick mortar. It can sometimes however,...

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  • architects, blistering paint, brick mortar, building defects, building materials, building problems, control transport of damp through masonry, crumbling brickwork, crumbling render, Damp proof course, efflock, eflorescence in balcony tile bed, Home renovations, hydrophobic, hygroscopic salts, phosphate in soil, prevent capillary action, prevent rising damp, prevent wicking, Recommended reading, Salt Attack and Rising Damp, Salt Attack and Rising Damp - A Guide to Salt Damp in Historic Buildings, subfloor walls
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• Nov 08, 2012

  Trade feedback: Efflock used in render

  Efflock is ideal as an additive for render. Efflock is pictured here, specified by the builder in a bathroom renovation, as an additional barrier in the water proofing system. Ian the renderer used his preferred mix using 4 Sydney sand, 1 cement, with plasticisers of Bycol and renderer's clay. Even with renderer's clay in the mix, Efflock works. Ian was pleased with the workability of the mix, and the simplicity of adding just 1% Efflock to the gauging water to create water repellent walls!

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  • additional water barrier, bathroom, bathroom mould, bathroom renovations, Easy to use Efflock, hydrophobic, hydrophobic render, lateral damp, moisture resistant render, prevent lateral damp, prevent mould, prevent salt damp, Recommended reading, render, rendering, salt resistant render, salt retarder, salts, water resistant render
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