We connect Ipswich owners with damp specialists, and we start by working out whether you have a damp problem at all.
Rising Damp Ipswich arranges an on-site assessment on a property in the Ipswich local government area. The specialist who attends is independent and holds a current QBCC licence. You get a written finding. If you decide to go ahead, the work goes to a trade suited to that method and that building.
We are a referral service. We do not carry out the work, we do not take a deposit, and we do not hold anybody to a quote we did not write.
Ipswich proclaimed a city — the oldest in Queensland outside Brisbane
The era of masonry here built before damp proof courses were standard
The two Bremer floods still sitting as salt in walls today
Ipswich is not Brisbane and it is certainly not Sydney. It is the oldest provincial city in Queensland, so a share of its masonry predates the damp proof course entirely. Around that sits a large stock of timber Queenslanders, and thousands of those were built in underneath between the 1960s and the 1990s.
The original house is on stumps and dry. The block room added at ground level sits on the soil, usually on a slab poured level with the yard, and usually with no barrier in it — because the house it was attached to had never needed one.
Much of Ipswich sits on reactive Walloon clay. It swells and shrinks with the season, cracks render, and lets water in sideways. That is a movement problem with a damp symptom, and injecting the wall will not stop it.
Frequently: this is not rising damp. In a humid subtropical climate a great deal of what gets reported to us is condensation. On anything built in the last thirty years there is a membrane under the slab and no route for ground water to climb at all.
Someone who only sells damp courses has an obvious reason to find one. We would rather tell you to ring a plumber, an engineer or nobody at all than arrange a quote for work that will not change your wall.
We do not publish reviews we did not receive. We do not show before-and-after photographs of work we did not do, and the illustrations on this site are labelled where they are not photographs of a real job. We do not give a fixed price for a wall nobody has looked at. Every figure here is a range, and the range is honest about how wide it is.
Building work in Queensland is licensed by the Queensland Building and Construction Commission, and the licence classes and the value threshold that triggers them are set by the QBCC rather than by us. We only refer specialists who hold a licence for the work they do. You are entitled to ask for the licence number and check it yourself on the QBCC register before you agree to anything, and we would encourage it.
An hour on site, readings up the wall and a look at the ground outside, then a written finding. It is the step that decides whether any of the rest is needed.
Rising Damp Ipswich