{"id":653,"date":"2025-11-18T13:35:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leakdetectionmalta.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2025-12-01T17:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:27:51","slug":"xghajra-three-flats-one-roof-following-the-damp-trail-upwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leakdetectionmalta.com\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Xg\u0127ajra: Three Flats, One Roof\u2014Following the Damp Trail Upwards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What unfolded<\/strong> <strong>in Xg\u0127ajra<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We inspected <strong>Apartment A<\/strong> and found cold tracks pointing <strong>up<\/strong>. The neighbour invited us next door (<strong>Apartment B<\/strong>)\u2014same story. So we visited the <strong>penthouse<\/strong> above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>On the penthouse<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The penthouse itself showed <strong>ingress from above<\/strong>. Up on the roof, we identified areas where <strong>tanking\/membrane<\/strong> and <strong>detailing<\/strong> (upstands, penetrations, gullies) needed work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Plan of action<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Repair the <strong>roof envelope<\/strong> and penetrations.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Re-inspect lower apartments after rainfall to confirm the <strong>dry-down<\/strong> trend.<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Roof detailing matters\u2014our [<a href=\"https:\/\/leakdetectionmalta.com\/?page_id=232\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"232\">Thermal Imaging<\/a>] helps prioritise exactly where to intervene.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What unfolded in Xg\u0127ajra We inspected Apartment A and found cold tracks pointing up. The neighbour invited us next door (Apartment B)\u2014same story. So we visited the penthouse above. On the penthouse The penthouse itself showed ingress from above. Up on the roof, we identified areas where tanking\/membrane and detailing (upstands, penetrations, gullies) needed work. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[84,73,77,37,33,82,80,78,29,31,71,83,85,86,43,69,75,30,70,74,36,72,38,81,26,32,76,79],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-stories","tag-attard","tag-balzan","tag-bugibba","tag-casestudy","tag-ecofriendlymalta","tag-gharghur","tag-gzira","tag-hamrun","tag-leakdetectionmalta","tag-maltainnovation","tag-mellieha","tag-mriehel","tag-naxxar","tag-portomaso","tag-propertyintegrity","tag-qormi","tag-rabat","tag-savewatersavelife","tag-sliema","tag-st-julians","tag-successstories","tag-swieqi","tag-testimonials","tag-valletta","tag-waterconservation","tag-watertech","tag-xemxija","tag-xghajra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leakdetectionmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leakdetectionmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leakdetectionmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leakdetectionmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leakdetectionmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leakdetectionmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/leakdetectionmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leakdetectionmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leakdetectionmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leakdetectionmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leakdetectionmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}