My house is falling down Supporting information following BRE's appearances in the Sarah Beeny series for Channel 4 television, aired late Summer 2010 BRE was commissioned by the programme's makers, Red House TV, to create a number of scenarios in support of the recent Channel 4 series 'Help! My house is falling down', to demonstrate to the home owners featured the risks they faced if repairs and remedial work were not carried out. Support for individual home owners Regrettably, as a commercial research and consultancy business, BRE is not able to provide free advice to individual homeowners. However, through our publishing partners IHS BRE Press, we produce a comprehensive range of publications that address many of the situations covered in the series, from simple 'Good repair guides' and BRE Digests, to comprehensive textbooks aimed at the professional or serious DIY-er.

Buildings and other built structures are moving all the time, but usually these movements are so small as to be unnoticeable. Movement can be caused by defects, movement of the ground, foundation failure, decay of the building fabric, and so on.

These can be bought online from, and in some cases are available as PDF files for instant download. A selection of relevant publications available from BREbookshop.com: Click the titles to see further details and see other related books Performance, diagnosis, maintenance, repair and the avoidance of defects.

A 280 page text book that covers all forms of roofing, and a well as traditional roofing systems, also includes sections on single layer membranes, fitting PV systems and lightweight green roofs. Information about products used in the series: See the programme's pages on the Channel 4 website (link on right). BRE is not responsible for any content in external sites and cannot comment on the products or services referred to. Services to the building professional BRE undertakes commissioned research and consultancy work for property professionals, such as building owners or managers, materials manufactures and the insurance industry. From diagnosis of failures, such as cracking of floors or failure of new materials, through to expert witness or forensic investigations, our comprehensive range of services (detailed under the and throughout this website) are available on a fee-paid basis. Using some of the largest facilities of their type in the UK, including the featured in the series, and our halls, we can accommodate full-scale building elements for tests.

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Services to the media BRE was commissioned to create the scenarios for the 'Help! My House is falling down' series.

By using some of the largest and most comprehensive facilities of their kind in the UK, we were able to help the production team get their messages across in innovative and visually stimulating ways. Across our extensive 75 acre site, just 20 miles from Central London and close to tv company facilities at Elstree (just five miles away) we have a number of locations and laboratories potentially suitable for tv and film use. From the oak-panelled billiard room and elegant stairways of 'Bucknalls' (the Victorian mansion at the centre of our site), via the, to the largest suite of fire test facilities in Europe or one of the in the UK, we can provide period countryside sets, some of the most innovative houses in Britain, opportunities for recreating scenarios such as in Help my house is falling down in our test labs, or locations for science and technology based programme makers.

Crack and serial. In recent years, the BRE site has been used for filming segments from Casualty and Holby City (including using our site's road network and featuring our 200 seat lecture theatre), early episodes of Spooks, technical locations for Tomorrows World and more recently the BBC Weather programme. The Innovation Park has provided the backdrop to recent segments for BBC News, ITN News, and Working Lunch. The BBC TV series DreamHouse with Carol Vorderman was filmed at BRE, and the Millennium House the programme followed was constructed on our site. In addition to the laboratories, test halls and other buildings, our site offers a road network, woodland areas, a lake, tennis courts, and even Barnes Wallis' original test model of the Mohne Dam. To discuss the opportunities available to the tv and film industries, please contact the BRE Press Office: T 09, E whitep@bre.co.uk.