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There are many types of dampness affecting our buildings, but we can mainly classify them as follows:

• Rising damp (dampness coming from the ground and affecting ground floors and basements, degrading the plaster and paint in the lower part of the wall).
• Condensation damp (ambient humidity causes mould to appear and windows to drip. It can affect any home, not only ground floors and basements. It is often linked to the lack of air renewal and poor thermal insulation).
• Penetration damp (Water table entering in the basements through the walls)
• Water leaks (poorly waterproofed roofs, downspouts, showers, …)

Among the various existing techniques, the most common are:

• Polarity reversal system (with power supply): This is a wireless electronic device that inverts the polarity of the wall by means of frequency emission.
• Geo-magnetic system (without power supply): Seeks to counteract the effect that the earth’s magnetic field has on the wall. The results are poor.
• Injection system: This involves drilling the base of the wall and injecting resins that seal the pores and capillaries to prevent moisture from rising within the wall.

• The only useful system to solve rising damp in a basement is the polarity reversal system. The MURSEC ECO system helps to reduce damp but it doesn’t solve penetration water.

• The MURSEC ECO comes in a wide range of devices to treat buildings from 30m2 to 3.000m2.
• MURSEC ECO devices coming in different sizes: an operating radius of 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 22 or 30 meters.
• It is necessary to place the MURSEC ECO device in a central point of the building in order to solve rising damp problems in all the affected masonry.

• The MURSEC ECO comes with a 30-year manufacturer’s warranty on the MURSEC ECO device.
• The manufacturer guarantees for 30 years the MURSEC ECO physical device and is responsible for its repair or replacement by an equal or even better one if it suffers any failure. The warranty does not cover potential plaster damages nor any other concept.
• The quality and safety of all electronic components and assembly are of the highest quality.

• The MURSEC ECO device is very easy to install and full instructions will be given to Approved Contractors. 
• The MURSEC ECO device must be installed in a central point of the area to be treated, making sure that the radius of coverage covers the entire surface.
• It is always recommended that these units are installed by a company who specialises in diagnosing and treating rising damp which is why we only allowed vetted ‘Approved Contractors’. 
  • They will help you with a professional diagnosis analysing the extent of the rising damp issue and advise on which unit you will need to cure the rising damp.
  • They will also give you all the necessary advice indicating the steps to follow to repair damaged plaster (if any).

• MURSEC ECO UK are the sole, exclusive distributors of this device.
• To become an Approved Contractor, which allows you to purchase and install this device, please apply through our ‘Approved Contractors Page.
• If you are a general consumer then please get in touch via our ‘Contact Us’ Page and we can put you in touch with an approved contractor in your area.
• We will guide you so that you can get the MURSEC ECO device the sooner the better.

• When installing the MURSEC ECO device, the rising damp stops immediately. 
• Then the wall must dry out by itself as the dampness evaporates.
• It takes between 3 to 12 months for the wall to dry 80% of the excess of dampness.

• You should wait until the wall has dried before painting, preferably with a breathable paint, but in some cases damaged plaster may need to be removed and replaced.
• Walls affected by rising damp are also very affected by salt, and paint does not resist the effect of the crystallisation of salts.
• Gypsum is a very hygroscopic material that even absorbs ambient humidity. The plaster may need to be removed from all the lower part of the walls.
• We recommend repairing the plaster with a renovating plaster, rather than Gypsum plaster, which both allows the wall to breath and dry out.

• Right after the MURSEC ECO device is installed, with out having to wait for the wall to dry-out, you can replaster the masonry with renovating plaster which accelerates the drying process.
• Once replastered, the wall can be painted in 15 days, preferably with a breathable paint.

• Many customers notice the effect within a few days, but this method is not scientific, it is absolutely subjective.
• You can use a traditional hygrometer, which measures surface electrical conductivity. The conductivity measurement is conditioned by the dampness and salts present in the wall. Thus, the dampness of the wall can decrease, but the salts maintain a high conductivity. Traditional hygrometers are not suitable for monitoring a drying process.
• The right way to measure the humidity of the wall is by means of the Calcium Carbide system. The system consists of drilling holes in the masonry in order to obtain a sample of the internal material of the wall. This material is inserted in the carbide pump, where the calcium carbide is also inserted. The calcium carbide reacts with the moisture present in the sample and acetylene is produced. The pressure gauge of the carbide pump indicates the exact % humidity of the sample. This is the only system accepted at the normative level to ensure the moisture value of a wall according to UNE EN ISO 15801:2010 (Conservation of cultural heritage. Test methods. Determination of water absorption by rising damp).
• A professional rising damp treatment company (our Approved Contractors) will have these measuring instruments and all the necessary know-how to ensure that the wall remains dry.

• The electro-physical system is indistintly called electro-osmotic wireless system. Some also call it neutralisation system, or even power neutral system.
• All these techniques are based on the same physical-chemical principle.
• What it makes the difference among them is the accumulated know-how and experience. The MURSEC ECO has been developed using the SmartPolar® system with its unique algorithm which emits the right frequencies in order to achieve the maximum dryness in the fastest way.
• With the polarity reversal system we have a very low power consumption of only 0.5W.

• The MURSEC ECO system is unique thanks to the multi-frequency emission with SmartPolar® that allows it to customise the signal to dry, in an optimised way, for each of the different building materials.
• The optimised signal is optimally transmitted by solid materials such as brick, stone, mortar, rammed earth and concrete.
• This allows the device to efficiently reach every corner of the building and to optimally and quickly dry each of the different building materials.
• Years of solving rising damp issues has allowed the fine tuning of the algorithm, and this allows us to have the most efficient and fastest drying system, no matter how heterogeneous and thick the wall is.
• MURSEC ECO is also the only device that allows users to control it via WiFi from a cell phone or PC. A set of parameters can be selected to optimize the drying operation of the device for each individual object.

• The price varies dependent on the device needed for the area that needs treatment for rising damp. 
• To get pricing and become an Approved Contractor please apply through our ‘Approved Contractors Page.

• The old walls form a structure of interconnected microcapillaries, which is called open porosity.
• Water molecules in the subsurface act as dipoles (they have a positive and a negative pole), and orient their electric charge according to the charges they find in the surraunding area.
• The water molecules end up generating an electrostatic charge that is balanced by the creation of a curvature of the water contained in the capillary. This ends up causing the rising damp that we observe.
• The presence of dissolved hygroscopic salts has a multiplying effect.
• The water molecules are oriented upwards and we end up measuring a potential difference between wall and ground of 0.5 to 0.8V.
• Electro-osmosis is defined as the movement of a liquid under the influence of an electric field through a porous wall.
• Ultimately, the ionised water rises up the wall until it is balanced by the earth gravity force.
• The MURSEC ECO multi-frequency system emits a very low frequency signal (VLF = Very Low Frequency) that allows to invert the polarity of the wall and prevents the rise of damp through the poles and capillaries.

• Any element generates an electro-magnetic field. In our case the MURSEC ECO device emits less than 30 nano-teslas, less than a fluorescent lamp. Much less than any household appliance and infinitely less than a cell phone or a WiFi network.
• It is completely harmless to humans and animals, and is certified as such by APPLUS.
• Our device complies with electromagnetic compatibility regulations and does not interfere with WiFis, alarms, audimeters or pacemakers.

• The renovating plaster must be applied up to the height of the dampness plus 50cm. To do this, the dampness of the wall must be measured with a hygrometer that allows us to know with certainty the height that the pathology has reached.
• It is a common mistake to apply the plaster at a lower height than necessary. A rising damp specialist can bring you a lot of value in this matter as well.

• Gypsum: Gypsum is an extremely hygroscopic material. It nay need to be removed from the entire area affected by rising damp.
• Thickness: Any renovating plaster requires a minimum thickness of 2 centimeters to allow moisture evaporation and crystallisation of salts. This is a key element to take into account.
• Breathable paint: It is preferable to apply a breathable paint. We recommend siloxane, silicate or pliolite paint.
• There are many other aspects that a rising damp expert can help you with.