Rising Damp Perth assesses damp in Claremont, WA 6010, and we meter the wall before we quote.
Claremont sits between the river and the coast. Where the water table is shallow under an older riverside house, damp can show low and evenly along whole walls rather than in patches. Where a house is being renovated, the damp can first come to light mid-project, when a floor is lifted or a wall stripped back.
Damp in a well-kept house can first be found when a floor comes up or a wall is stripped back, because that is the first time anyone has seen the masonry in decades. It is the best time to find it — everything is already open — and the worst time to hear about it, because the schedule assumed no such thing. Bringing the diagnosis forward, before linings go back on, is the difference between one job and two.
Where damp shows as a continuous band at much the same height along a whole wall, rather than as patches, that evenness is itself the diagnosis. Patches point to a leak, a downpipe or a bridged spot. A level line the length of the wall points to moisture arriving uniformly from below and stopping where evaporation balances the rise. It is one of the few things an owner can read off a wall without equipment, and it changes what should be investigated first.
Also relevant to Claremont, and written once for every suburb it affects: a high water table.
| Ground level within 250 m | 11 to 23 m above sea level (approx.) |
|---|---|
| Ground level at the centre | about 19 m |
| Indian Ocean coast (salt air) | about 2.9 km from the centre, straight line |
| Nearest river | Swan River, about 2.4 km from the centre, straight line |
| Perth CBD | about 7.9 km, straight line |
| Streets inside the suburb | Gugeri Street, Alfred Road, Stirling Road and Ashton Avenue |
| Parks and reserves | Mary Street Reserve, Rowe Park and Claremont Park |
Claremont is 2.9 km from the ocean and 2.4 km from the Swan River. Those distances cannot show the water table under one house; the Perth Groundwater Map estimates it for an address. At under 3 km from the coast, airborne salt can also reach outside faces; salt crusting mainly on the weather side points to the air rather than the ground. Both can be present, and the replaster has to deal with the salt either way.
The six signs are on the inspection page, the order of the work on how it works, prices on the cost page and the measuring method on the about page.
Talk it through. Tell us what you're seeing — or what your building report said — and we'll book an on-site assessment ($450 plus GST) with a written diagnosis. A fixed quote follows the assessment.
We call you back to talk it through. Any work is quoted after we have assessed the wall.
We carry out assessments across the Perth metropolitan area, including:
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