Rising Damp Perth assesses damp in West Perth, WA 6005, and we meter the wall before we quote.
West Perth's remaining older buildings are mostly commercial or converted, and the damp shows up in tenancies rather than living rooms — a stained skirting in a consulting suite, or salt on the plaster of a converted warehouse. Commercial work brings body-corporate approvals and after-hours access, both of which change the timeline more than the treatment does.
In a commercial or strata building the treatment itself is no different from a house. What changes is everything around it: body-corporate approval, access outside trading hours, and establishing whether the wall is common property or inside the lot. Settling that first is what stops an argument about an invoice later.
When a house is split into flats, bathrooms and kitchens get added against original external walls without always allowing for how those walls dry, and outside levels can be raised to suit new paving and access. Both changes work against a wall that was coping before. Damp in a converted building can be worse than in the intact house next door, and the history of the conversion is the most useful thing an owner can bring to the diagnosis.
| Ground level within 250 m | 38 to 53 m above sea level (approx.) |
|---|---|
| Ground level at the centre | about 53 m |
| Indian Ocean coast (salt air) | about 8.3 km from the centre, straight line |
| Nearest river | Swan River, about 1.7 km from the centre, straight line |
| Perth CBD | about 1.9 km, straight line |
| Streets inside the suburb | Thomas Street, Kings Park Road, Wellington Street and Loftus Street |
| Parks and reserves | Frank Baden Powell Park and Harold Boas Gardens |
West Perth's centre reads 53 m, the highest centre reading on this site; a height says nothing about one building's walls. The first suspects here are what sits against the wall, such as paving, planters or a courtyard laid over the damp course, and wet rooms added in a conversion. At 8.3 km from the coast, salt in a West Perth wall most likely came from the ground.
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