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Rising Damp Ipswich assesses and treats damp in Ipswich CBD, and the wall is metered before we quote.
The Ipswich CBD has shops and chambers from the 1860s to 1890s on solid sandstone and brick footings, and a wall that old may have nothing between the ground and the wall. Where resurfacing has lifted the footpath against those walls, the damp arrives at the front of the building where the public sees it.
The CBD is solid masonry rather than cavity brick. That distinction decides the treatment: a cavity wall has two skins and an air gap, and damp in one does not automatically mean damp in the other. A solid wall is one continuous path from the footing to the plaster, which is why a nineteenth century shopfront can show a tide mark a metre up while the building next to it, built forty years later, shows nothing at all.
Where footpath and kerb levels through the older blocks have been rebuilt over their own previous surfaces, and where the finished pavement now sits above the internal floor, any barrier that was installed later has been bridged from outside, and no amount of work indoors will change that. The reading that matters is taken at the front wall, outside, with a tape.
| Height range, 250 m around the centre | about 28–62 m above sea level |
|---|---|
| Height at the centre | about 42 m |
| Bremer River | about 0.4 km from the CBD reference point (straight line) |
| Named roads | Warwick Road, Salisbury Road, Chermside Road and Limestone Street |
| Named parks | Willey Street Park, Limestone Park and Market Square Park |
The Bremer River is 0.4 km from the CBD reference point. A 90 m model cannot show the level of one footpath, and a resurfaced footpath can sit higher at one end of a frontage than the other. So the outside level is measured at each end of the front wall, not once.
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 CBD shopfront, the price turns on whether the footpath has bridged the base of the wall. If it has, the outside level is part of the job, and a heritage frontage can limit the method.
We work across the Ipswich local government area and the western corridor.
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