Salts or active damp?
Salts, foil-backed board, metal and material differences can produce unexpectedly high readings.
Compare salts with active dampComparative moisture readings
Pinless moisture screening for UK homes
Compare patterns across similar materials; do not use one reading to name the moisture source. First decide whether the material, location and repeat-reading method make a useful comparison possible.
Commercial disclosure: PROSTERMOISTURE sells the product shown. The guides state where readings are easily distorted.
Start with the question
Can the readings be compared fairly?
Compare like with like, record the circumstances and investigate patterns rather than chasing one percentage.
Need to keep evidence?
Photograph the location and record dates and repeat readings across comparable zones.
Build a useful damp logDamp after new windows?
Ventilation and surface temperature can change after replacement glazing.
Check the wider contextProduct fit
Decide before you buy
Useful for
Non-invasive comparison across similar wall, plaster or timber locations and a dated reading log.
Check before buying
Supported material modes, surface condition, metal or foil interference and how readings are displayed.
Cannot establish
Rising damp, a leak source, mould cause, responsibility or the repair required.
Current listing facts
Proster pinless meter snapshot
The current page confirms a pinless format and tri-colour display. It does not support absolute wall-moisture claims.
- Product type
- Pinless moisture meter
- Display
- Tri-colour reading indication
- Use pattern
- Hold flat and compare similar materials and locations
- Materials
- Confirm the exact supported modes in the supplied manual
- Interpretation
- Relative screening; do not translate a reading into a wall-moisture diagnosis
- Returns
- Check the current 30-day returns policy before ordering
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