Rising damp in Raceview, QLD

Walls in Raceview, and how moisture moves through them

Raceview mixes interwar and postwar housing with a lot of newer development, and where the clay under a house is reactive, it is the local story. It shrinks in a dry spell and swells in a wet one, and the cracking that produces can be mistaken for damp.

The housing stock in Raceview

Older brick along the established streets, with modern housing around it. On the interwar houses the damp course is likely to be bitumen and likely to be brittle. On the newer ones there is a membrane and there is no rising damp, whatever the wall looks like. The build date is the first thing worth establishing here.

The ground under Raceview

Reactive clay can move enough to open a crack in render and close it again with the season. A cracked wall lets water in and a wet wall looks like rising damp, but the mechanism is movement and the fix is drainage and repair rather than a chemical course. Getting this wrong costs an owner money and does not stop the damage.

Raceview in figures

What the Raceview figures mean for a damp wall

Raceview's centre is 2.7 km from the Bremer River. Where the clay swells when wet and shrinks when dry, that movement cracks render. So a Raceview assessment should say whether a wet wall is cracked first and wet second, before anyone prices a damp course.

Prices and next steps for Raceview

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. If the wall is cracked by clay movement, drainage and crack repair come first, and a damp course may not be needed. On interwar brick, a brittle bitumen course is the cost.

Talk it through in Raceview

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