Rising Damp Perth assesses damp in Fremantle, WA 6160, and we meter the wall before we quote.
Fremantle's terraces and cottages are limestone or double brick laid straight onto footings in the 1890s boom. A house of that age may have no damp-proof course at all, or a bitumen one that has gone brittle. Add sea air off a coast little more than a kilometre from the centre, and a century of renders and paints applied over the top, and the result can be salt blooming through the skirting line, paint lifting in sheets, and a tide-mark that returns every winter no matter how many times it is painted over.
Also relevant to Fremantle, and written once for every suburb it affects: limestone, salt off the sea air and cement render over old masonry.
| Ground level within 250 m | 26 to 49 m above sea level (approx.) |
|---|---|
| Ground level at the centre | about 41 m |
| Indian Ocean coast (salt air) | about 1.3 km from the centre, straight line |
| Nearest river | Swan River, about 1.4 km from the centre, straight line |
| Perth CBD | about 14.8 km, straight line |
| Streets inside the suburb | High Street, Hampton Road, South Street and Queen Victoria Street |
| Parks and reserves | Fremantle Park and Virginia Ryan Park |
The centre of Fremantle is about 1.3 km from the Indian Ocean coast, so airborne salt can settle on the outside faces of an old wall here. A Fremantle assessment should test the outside face for salt as well as the base of the wall. Where soil is banked against a wall, that wall can take water sideways as well as from below, and it may need a different fix from the rest of the house.
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:
Rising Damp Perth