Rising damp in Brassall, QLD

Why Brassall walls behave the way they do

Much of Brassall is postwar and modern housing. For a newer Brassall house, a wet wall is more likely to be a leak, a shower or condensation than rising damp. The exceptions are the older cottages along the original road and the houses where a slab or path has been added hard against an older wall.

The housing stock in Brassall

Brick veneer on concrete slabs in the newer streets. A slab poured on a membrane, with a brick skin standing clear of the ground on its own edge beam, has no route for ground water to climb. A damp patch in a house like this has a different cause and needs a different trade, and quoting a damp treatment for it would be dishonest.

The ground under Brassall

Where damp does appear on newer housing, the likely cause is something at the surface — a garden bed built above the slab edge, an air conditioning condensate line, or a leaking irrigation fitting against the wall. Those are worth eliminating before anyone drills a hole.

Brassall in figures

What the Brassall figures mean for a damp wall

At 1.5 km from the Bremer River, the first question for a Brassall wall is still the build date, as the detail above says. For the older cottages, look for a garden bed or path banked against a wall.

Prices and next steps for Brassall

The six signs are on the home page, the order of the work on how it works, prices on the cost page and the measuring method on the about page. On a newer slab-built Brassall house, the cost is a plumber or a garden bed, not a damp course. The older cottages along the original road are priced like any pre-war wall.

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