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Rising Damp Ipswich assesses and treats damp in Woodend, and the wall is metered before we quote.
Woodend's heritage houses on the hill date from the 1870s and 1880s: large solid brick houses with deep verandahs, some with original slate damp courses now well past a century old. Slate does not rot, but it cracks, and a cracked slate course leaks at exactly the points where the wall carries the most load.
A Woodend house that was built with a damp course can have had it defeated by later work: an enclosed verandah, a lowered floor, or a rendered plinth added to tidy up a base that was always meant to breathe. Each of those is a sensible renovation on its own and a damp problem in combination.
Rising damp is not about flooding. It is about the few hundred millimetres of ground immediately outside the wall. A cut-in garden bed against a wall delivers water to it just as reliably as any river flat, and it does it every time it rains rather than once a decade.
| Height range, 250 m around the centre | about 23–42 m above sea level |
|---|---|
| Height at the centre | about 41 m |
| Bremer River | about 0.4 km from the centre (straight line) |
| Ipswich CBD | about 1.3 km (straight line) |
| Named roads | Roseberry Parade, Elizabeth Street, Macgregor Street and Waghorn Street |
For a Woodend house on the hill, the damp question is the ground right outside the wall, as the ground note above says. For a house nearer the Bremer River, 0.4 km from the centre, check the address against Ipswich City Council's flood information as well.
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 large Woodend house, the length of wall decides the injection cost. An enclosed verandah or a rendered plinth can add work to remove before any course is put in.
We work across the Ipswich local government area and the western corridor.
Rising Damp Ipswich