Tell us what the wall is doing and roughly when the house was built, and we will put you in touch with an independent Ipswich damp specialist. If it sounds like condensation or a drainage problem rather than rising damp, we will tell you that instead of arranging a quote.
Rising Damp Ipswich arranges damp assessments across Ipswich and the western corridor.
Tell us what the wall is doing. Tell us what the wall is doing and roughly when the house was built, and we will put you in touch with an independent Ipswich damp specialist. If it sounds like condensation or a drainage problem rather than rising damp, we will tell you that instead of arranging a quote.
We connect Ipswich property owners with independent damp specialists holding the appropriate QBCC licence. We are a referral service and do not carry out the work ourselves.
Roughly when the house was built. It decides everything. Before about 1900 there is often no damp course at all. Between the wars there is usually a bitumen one that has aged out. In the last thirty years there is a membrane under the slab and rising damp is not the mechanism.
Whether anything was built in underneath. On a Queenslander this is almost the whole question. The original timber house on stumps cannot take rising damp in its walls; the block room added at ground level in 1985 can, and usually has no barrier in it.
How high the mark sits, and whether it is level. A level line in the first metre behaves like ground water. A patch, a stain that runs downward, or damp high in a corner behaves like something else, and something else is cheaper.
The Bremer reached a lot of these suburbs in 2011 and again in 2022. A wall that went under holds salt at the flood height for years afterwards and needs no ongoing water to keep looking terrible. It is treated differently and a damp course will not touch it. See flood damage or rising damp.
A crack that steps diagonally through the mortar joints is ground movement, not damp, and on Ipswich’s reactive clay that is common. It is a question for a structural engineer before it is a question for a damp contractor, and we would rather say so than arrange a quote you do not need. See reactive clay or damp.
We ask enough to work out which cause fits what you are describing. Several of them are cheaper than rising damp and worth ruling out before anybody drives to you. If an assessment is the right step, we pass your details to an independent QBCC licensed specialist covering your suburb. They contact you, attend and quote. We are not on site and we do not mark up their price.
Taken square on, including the floor line so the height reads. If a building and pest report has flagged moisture, that report is the single most useful thing you can send us.
We connect Ipswich property owners with independent damp specialists holding the appropriate QBCC licence. We are a referral service and do not carry out the work ourselves.
We take enquiries across the Ipswich local government area and the western corridor.
Rising Damp Ipswich