Elo System

Specialized in wall dehumidification and desalination by active electroosmosis, the company ELO was formed by technicians who brought with them many years of experience and who have restored various types of walls (brick, stone, concrete and reinforced concrete) and buildings such as historical buildings, old villas, churches and housing, always achieving permanent results.

Prompt interventions that permanently solve problems relating to moisture in walls, the so-called “rising damp”, are all-important for guaranteeing the future “health” of the building.

In the recent years the physical principle of electro-osmosis has been increasingly applied for wall restoration, which allows optimum and permanent results to be achieved while keeping costs at a very competitive level thanks to specially researched materials and specifically designed components.

Aware of the importance of problems caused by rising damp as well as the damage resulting from incomplete interventions, ELO has decided to adopt the electro-osmosis principle. It is the only method that, on its own, makes it possible to attain all restoration goals, namely:

PREVENT ANY FURTHER RISING DAMP
ELIMINATE THE PRESENCE OF WATER IN WALLS
NEUTRALIZE SALTS

Electro-osmosis allows these final results to be achieved by applying an electric field greater than and opposite to the natural one, which capillarily brings the water back to the soil, subsequently preventing any future rising damp. In fact, this system remains permanently active, thus allowing the achieved results to be maintained over the long term without needing any maintenance interventions.

As the applied electric field is in direct current, it does not create any magnetic field, the so-called “electrosmog”. It therefore does not represent any risk for human health. This is why we can say that this technique is undoubtedly environment-friendly and complies with the bioarchitecture philosophy.

The electro-osmotic system is implemented by inserting one or more continuous electrodes - depending on the rising damp height - along the entire length of the wall affected by the problem and by applying a suitable potential difference (approximately 5Vdc) by way of a selfregulating electronic unit.

Topics concerning the physical principle of electro-osmosis, the materials used in the system and the related operating modes will be looked at in-depth in the following sections. The conclusive comparison between the various restoration methods highlights the unquestionable benefits of the ELO System.