About the Company

Peter Cox Ltd is the UK market leader in damp proofing, waterproofing, timber preservation and wall stabilisation. We have a network of 17 local service branches across the country with staff who are familiar with each locality, its needs and building traditions.
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Experience
Working for surveyors / architects, property owners and managers, local authorities and contractors, the company has wide ranging experience in the repair of housing both privately owned and public sector, commercial and public buildings, as well as churches, including many listed properties.
Much of our work on owner occupied housing is the result of recommendation by surveyors and mortgage lenders.

Guaranteed Service
Generally our treatments carry a long term Guarantee which is assignable in the event of a change of ownership. Over the years we have issued well over 100,000 and Peter Cox is one of the few companies whose trading history exceeds the terms of its guarantees.

Quality Assurance
Our surveyors are highly trained and most hold CSRT, CSSW, CTIS and CRDS certification.

All our services are administered under a third party accredited ISO 9002 Quality Management System.

Peter Cox is a founder member of the Property Care Association (PCA), formerly the British Wood
Preserving and Damp-proofing Association (BWPDA) ,and the British Wall Tie and Structural Repair Association (BWTSRA).

Peter Cox Ltd is a division of Mavinwood Plc.

Our History

The business was originally founded in 1951 as Peter Cox and Partners specialising in stone cleaning in post war London. The founder Peter Norman Cox was a pioneer in the development of chemical damp proof courses. In the 1960s he developed and patented the Transfusion DPC system using a gravity fed, non-flammable siliconate fluid to permeate the masonry and form a barrier against rising damp. This system, exclusive to Peter Cox, carried an Agrement certificate from 1975 to 2004 and has only recently superceded by a new silane diffusion technique. In the 1970s Peter Cox diversified into woodworm and dry rot control and then remedial wall ties, reaching market leadership in 1989. From 1996 when it was part of the Servicemaster group the business traded as Terminix Property Services but it reverted to its original identity in 2004. Over the years the company has worked on numerous national and regional historic buildings throughout the UK, such as the Houses of Parliament, York Minster, Selby Abbey, the Royal Courts of Justice, Cardiff Castle and Edinburgh’s Balmoral Hotel.