Rising damp in Riverview, QLD

How Riverview was built, and what that means for damp

Riverview sits close to the river with old industrial ground behind it, with older cottages among later infill. A flood history and heavy soil, where a house has both, make it hard to assess from a photograph. A house here needs the ground outside measured before anything indoors is believed.

The housing stock in Riverview

Older cottages and interwar housing with later infill. Where a house has been rendered, the render can conceal a lot: it hides the brick, hides the damp course if there is one, and holds moisture against the wall while looking perfectly sound from the street.

The ground under Riverview

Where industrial fill has been used to level a block, it can be more permeable than the soil around it, which turns the fill into a reservoir sitting against a footing. That is a drainage problem with a damp symptom, and it is not solved by injecting the wall.

Riverview in figures

What the Riverview figures mean for a damp wall

The Brisbane River is 0.9 km from Riverview's centre, so check the address against Ipswich City Council's flood information. Fill used to level a block can hold water against a footing, so ask what the block was built on as well as what the wall is made of.

Prices and next steps for Riverview

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. Render that hides the wall may have to come off before the wall can be read. Where fill holds water against a footing, drainage is the job, not injection.

Talk it through in Riverview

Call 0489 270 985

Rising damp help in other suburbs

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