The companies RISE recommends to clients — vetted, named, and accountable. Selected for product quality, technical competence, and a track record of delivering for flooded homeowners.
There are many companies selling flood-related products, services, and advisory across the UK. RISE has worked with, observed, or been approached by a significant number of them, and the experience has not always been good. This is a category where products are sometimes misrepresented and installations are sometimes done badly. Aftercare often disappears when problems arise. Some companies dissolve and reopen under new names to avoid accountability for what they sold previously. RISE has reported a supplier to Trading Standards.
The companies on this page are the small group whose work, ethics, and accountability stood up under scrutiny — over years, on real cases, including the founder's own. Inclusion on this list is not for sale. Listed partners contribute commercially to RISE on terms set out in our terms of use, but commercial contribution alone does not qualify a company for a listing. The list is short because the bar is high.
Suppliers whose products RISE specifies by name in scopes of work, technical briefs, and rebuild specifications. These are the products RISE knows by their performance characteristics and trusts under the standards RISE works to (BS 85500:2025 and Ciria C790).
Cavity drain membranes & tanking systems
Delta is the UK market leader in cavity drain membrane systems for damp control and structural waterproofing. Their products were specified throughout the rebuild that informed RISE's founding methodology, and their technical team is among the most knowledgeable on flood-resilient construction in the country.
When you are in the middle of a flood recovery, you do not have the time, the energy, or the technical knowledge to vet six different tradespeople and decide who is going to do the job properly. RISE's founder has already done that work — on his own rebuild, in real conditions, with the consequences landing at his own front door. The companies listed below were tested, watched, and selected on the basis of what they actually delivered. Surveyors, builders, ground workers, tankers, tilers, electricians, and bespoke joiners — the right person for the right part of the job.
Waterproofing, tanking & flood resilience contractor
Shield Waterproofing and Preservation Ltd is an independent specialist contractor with over 30 years of experience in basement waterproofing, damp proofing, structural repairs, timber preservation, and flood resilience work. Their surveyors hold CSRT and CSSW accreditations. The company is a Property Care Association member and an approved installer of Delta Membranes products. Shield delivered the tanking and waterproofing installation on RISE's founder's own second rebuild — across the full ground-floor envelope, with continuity-of-detail evidence captured throughout the build.
A note on guarantees. Shield provided RISE's founder with a 30-year written guarantee on the tanking installation. That was the result of a comprehensive, belt-and-braces specification — full waterproofing system, integrated drainage, sump and pump system, whole-property solar battery backup providing power resilience during grid outages, and every junction and penetration detailed and signed off in writing. The guarantee length reflected the rigour of the scope, not a generic offer. Every client's recovery is different. A simple DPM replacement and a fully integrated waterproofing system are not the same job, and they do not attract the same guarantee. What RISE will do is help you understand what scope of work produces what level of guarantee — so the decision you make is informed.
Building surveying & site assessment
The surveyor engaged on RISE's second rebuild. Provided independent site assessments, scope review, and milestone sign-offs during the project, working alongside RISE's founder rather than for the insurer.
Partnership conversation in progress. Listing to follow once finalised.
General building contractor
The principal contractor engaged on RISE's second rebuild. Delivered the build-out under a documented programme of works, with phased moisture barrier installation, named specified products, coordinated trades, and structured handover.
Partnership conversation in progress. Listing to follow once finalised.
Ground works & external drainage
The ground works contractor engaged on RISE's second rebuild. Handled the external drainage diversions, the regrading of external levels away from the property, and the integration of the surface water management system.
Partnership conversation in progress. Listing to follow once finalised.
Bespoke joinery & custom oak woodwork
The joiner engaged on RISE's second rebuild for bespoke internal joinery and custom oak woodwork. Delivered fitted pieces designed to specification, with consideration for moisture management and the post-flood internal environment.
Partnership conversation in progress. Listing to follow once finalised.
Domestic & flood-resilient electrical
The electrician engaged on RISE's second rebuild. Delivered a full rewire to flood-resilient specification — raised sockets, repositioned consumer unit, separated circuits, and integration with the whole-property solar battery system.
Partnership conversation in progress. Listing to follow once finalised.
Wet-zone tiling & waterproof substrate
The tiler engaged on RISE's second rebuild. Delivered the tiled finishes across all ground-floor wet zones, working over the tanking installation with proper substrate preparation and decoupling.
Partnership conversation in progress. Listing to follow once finalised.
Some flood recoveries become disputes. Many require independent evidence of what caused the problem in the first place before the right remediation can be specified. When the question moves from “how do we fix it” to “how do we prove what happened, and what specifically needs to be done about it,” the right answer is an independent chartered expert whose only product is precise technical opinion. RISE works with consultants whose written assessments stand up to scrutiny by insurers, surveyors, ombudsman cases, and where matters escalate, formal legal processes. These are the experts you bring in when the documentation has to be unimpeachable.
Independent chartered building consultant
Steve Hodgson is a chartered building consultant specialising in damp, waterproofing, and structural moisture issues. He produces forensic-grade written assessments on the cause of building failures, the adequacy of remediation works, and the technical specifications required to put a property right. His reports are commissioned by insurers, loss adjusters, surveyors, and increasingly by homeowners and their advisors directly. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers, a Certificated Surveyor in Structural Waterproofing (CSSW), and Property Care Association member 8000.
Insurance brokers who understand flood-affected properties and Flood Re-affiliated policies. Brokers RISE engages on a client's behalf for pre-flood policy reviews, Build Back Better participation queries, and placement of cover on non-standard cases.
Flood Re-affiliated household insurance broker
Magenta is a Flood Re-affiliated broker with direct experience placing cover for flood-affected and flood-risk properties across the home counties. RISE's founder was a Magenta client during the second flood claim, and the broker relationship is built on that history of working through a real case together.
The standards behind every listing on this page, stated openly because most companies in this category will not.
These standards are not for show. They have cost RISE potential partnership revenue, and they will continue to. They are the price of being a list a flooded homeowner can trust.
RISE works with a small, deliberately limited set of suppliers, trades, and brokers. If your company specialises in flood-resilient construction, materials, services, or insurance and you believe RISE clients would benefit from your work, please get in touch to discuss.
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