Rising Damp Scarborough WA | Treatment & Advice

Rising Damp Perth assesses damp in Scarborough, WA 6019, and we meter the wall before we quote.

What makes a Scarborough wall damp

Paint and render failing on the rendered base of an older outside wall, with white salt on it and stone footings below. — Illustration: salt and failing paint on the base of an older outside wall. Near the coast, test the outside face for salt.

Scarborough is the coastal salt case in its purest form. The older limestone and brick here take salt directly off the wind as well as up from the ground.

When the damage arrives before anyone says the word damp

Crumbling mortar, blown render and powdery brick faces can be put down to the wall being old, and by the time anyone calls it damp the surface is well advanced. That decay is salt doing mechanical work: crystallising inside the pores and breaking the material apart from within. It matters because the repair is then two jobs, not one — the moisture path and the damaged masonry — and a quote covering only the first will not leave you with a finished wall.

Also relevant to Scarborough, and written once for every suburb it affects: salt off the sea air and limestone.

Scarborough ground facts

Ground level within 250 m	10 to 24 m above sea level (approx.)
Ground level at the centre	about 15 m
Indian Ocean coast (salt air)	about 0.4 km from the centre, straight line
Nearest river	Swan River, about 11.1 km from the centre, straight line
Perth CBD	about 11.5 km, straight line
Streets inside the suburb	Scarborough Beach Road, Brighton Road, Sackville Terrace and Pearl Parade
Parks and reserves	Deanmore Square Reserve, Abbett Park and Colin Ventnor Reserve

Street map of Scarborough, Perth, with the suburb boundary dashed — Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

What the Scarborough numbers mean for a damp wall

The centre of Scarborough is 0.4 km from the Indian Ocean, the closest coast reading on this site. So salt can arrive on the wind as well as from the ground. The Swan River is 11.1 km away, so a river water table is not part of the story. For an older limestone or brick wall here, test the outside face for salt, and expect the crumbled surface to need repair as well as the damp path.

What to check first in Scarborough

How far the surface of a Scarborough wall has gone: crumbling mortar, blown render, powdery brick. That repair is separate from the damp path.

Prices and next steps for Scarborough

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.

Damaged masonry is repaired as well as the damp path, so the quote has two parts.

Talk it through in Scarborough

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.

Call 0468 050 296

Rising damp help in other suburbs

Diagram of the Perth suburbs we carry out damp assessments in, plotted in relative position around the Swan and Canning rivers. It is a coverage diagram, not a flood map. — Scarborough among the suburbs we cover (schematic, and not a flood map; see how flood and groundwater damp differ).

We carry out assessments across the Perth metropolitan area, including:

Subiaco Leederville Claremont West Perth North Perth Cottesloe

Rising damp in Scarborough, WA