‘Non-traditional construction’ is used to describe housing built after the war using materials other than traditional bricks and mortar. Known commonly as ‘system houses’ and often designed by large contractors they commonly had pre-cast concrete frames and panels and suffered from problems like damp due to solid wall construction and no insulation.
Approved repair can bring them up to a standard that is acceptable to mortgage companies and insurers, and specialist repairs can upgrade them at reasonable cost, i.e. structural repairs, fitting external insulation systems and rendering or brick slips.
