Rising damp in North Ipswich, QLD

Rising damp in North Ipswich's older walls

North Ipswich is railway country on the north bank. Ipswich City Council keeps historical flood maps for the 1974, 2011 and 2022 events, and a house that took water can still be carrying the salt. It also has built-in-under Queenslanders, which is a rising damp mechanism created entirely by a renovation.

The housing stock in North Ipswich

Timber Queenslanders on stumps, some of them built in underneath in later decades. The original house cannot get rising damp: it stands on stumps with air beneath it. The brick or block infill added later stands on the ground, on a slab that can sit level with the yard, and it may have no damp proof course at all.

The ground under North Ipswich

Where the water table sits close to the surface on the lower streets toward the river, and closer still after a wet summer, that is the condition under which a wall with no barrier shows a tide mark that rises through February and falls through August, which is a pattern worth recording before anyone quotes on it.

North Ipswich in figures

What the North Ipswich figures mean for a damp wall

The Bremer River is 0.6 km from the centre. A 90 m model cannot say which streets took water in a past flood, so check the address against Ipswich City Council's flood information. If it took water, ask the flood question first. If it did not, a built-in-under Queenslander is a ground-level and damp-course question.

Prices and next steps for North Ipswich

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. For a built-in-under Queenslander, only the brick or block infill needs work, not the house above. If that infill took flood water, the salted render is a separate line.

Talk it through in North Ipswich

Call 0489 270 985

Rising damp help in other suburbs

We work across the Ipswich local government area and the western corridor.