Timberwise

Timberwise was founded in 1968, and more than half a century on, it’s still a family-run property care company, headquartered in Northwich, Cheshire, with branches spread across the UK. The company’s registered legal entity, Timberwise (UK) Limited, was incorporated in 1996 as part of a restructuring, briefly trading as Timberwise (UK) PLC before settling into its current form, though the brand’s working history stretches back three decades further than that.

The business has stayed narrowly focused on what it does best: damp, timber and property care. Services cover rising damp, penetrating damp and condensation control, dry rot and wet rot treatment, woodworm treatment, basement waterproofing and cellar tanking, structural and concrete repairs, timber window and resin repairs, bird control, radon gas reduction, and mould eradication, alongside pre-purchase damp and timber surveys for home buyers.

Timberwise is a member of the Property Care Association, formerly the BWPDA, and its surveyors carry PCA accreditation, credentials that matter in an industry where mortgage lenders routinely require independent damp and timber reports before a sale goes through. That’s helped the company build genuinely close working relationships with architects, estate agents, surveyors and mortgage lenders across the UK, who recommend Timberwise to clients on a recurring basis. Work carried out comes with long-term guarantees attached.

The company now employs somewhere around 100 to 200 people across its UK branch network, and customer reviews consistently point to the same thing, individual surveyors and technicians, often named directly in feedback, praised for clear explanations, tidy work and following through from initial survey to completed job. Nearly 60 years after it started, Timberwise still leans on that same reputation: “Trust the Property Care Experts. Trust Timberwise.”