Describe the wall and roughly when the house was built.
Rising Damp Ipswich assesses and treats damp across Ipswich and the western corridor.
Tell us what the wall is doing. Say roughly when the house was built and what you can see, and we will ring you back to talk it through and, if it needs looking at, book a time to come out. If it sounds like condensation or a drainage problem rather than rising damp, we will tell you that instead of booking a quote.
No obligation. We ring you back to talk through the job.
Roughly when the house was built. It decides everything. Before about 1900 there may be no damp course at all. Between the wars there may be 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; a block room added later at ground level can, and it may have 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.
Ipswich City Council keeps historical flood maps for the 1974, 2011 and 2022 events. 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 reactive clay that is a real possibility. It is a question for a structural engineer before it is a question for a damp specialist, and we would rather say so than quote for work 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 book a time, come out, meter the walls and check outside. You get a written finding, and a fixed quote before any work starts.
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 work across the Ipswich local government area and the western corridor.
Rising Damp Ipswich