Rising damp in Sadliers Crossing, QLD

Why Sadliers Crossing walls behave the way they do

Sadliers Crossing is workers' housing from the railway years, small cottages packed close on narrow allotments. Some are timber on low stumps. Stumps keep rising damp out of the walls only while nothing touches the frame: the stumps are short, the underfloor is tight, and where a later concrete path or slab has been poured against the bearers there is a direct wet path into the frame.

The housing stock in Sadliers Crossing

Two very different houses share these streets. The original timber cottages take damp through their subfloor rather than their walls, and the symptom is a soft skirting or a musty smell rather than a tide mark. The brick cottages built alongside them behave conventionally. Telling which one you own decides whether the answer is ventilation or a damp course.

The ground under Sadliers Crossing

The ground between the houses is close and shaded. Narrow side setbacks are the specific problem: a metre of permanently damp soil between two buildings never dries, and the wall it touches never gets the sun that would otherwise carry the moisture back out.

Sadliers Crossing in figures

What the Sadliers Crossing figures mean for a damp wall

The Bremer River is 0.4 km from the centre, but a 90 m model cannot show how rain runs across one narrow lot, so the side setbacks are checked on site. On a cottage on low stumps, find out where that water goes before anyone looks at the walls.

Prices and next steps for Sadliers Crossing

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 timber cottage, the cost may be subfloor ventilation and moving a path off the bearers, not a damp course at all. On a brick cottage, it is the usual injection and render.

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