About
We connect Adelaide owners with damp specialists who know what they are looking at.
Rising Damp Adelaide arranges an on-site assessment for Adelaide property owners. We connect Adelaide property owners with independent damp specialists holding a building work contractor licence from Consumer and Business Services (CBS), the South Australian regulator. You get a written diagnosis. If you decide to go ahead, the work goes to a trade suited to that method and that building.
Salt damp is easy to get wrong. It is also expensive to get wrong. Five or six different faults all produce a wet wall at skirting height. They cost wildly different amounts to put right. And the person who diagnoses the problem is very often the person who profits from the answer.
That is not an accusation. It is a structural conflict, and it is the reason a written diagnosis from someone independent is worth more here than in most trades.
A short message and ideally a photo. Often enough for us to say whether an assessment is worth your time at all.
With an independent specialist covering your suburb, who holds the licences the work requires in South Australia.
The mechanism, the extent and the cause, before any price. That document is yours and you can take it anywhere.
There is no obligation to proceed, and no obligation to use whoever assessed it.
We do not publish reviews or testimonials. We would have to collect them first before we could honestly show them. We do not claim years in business, a licence number, or an accreditation that belongs to someone else. And we do not quote a price for a wall nobody has looked at. The figures on the cost page are ranges on purpose, and every fixed price quote follows an assessment.
Adelaide's inner suburbs and the coast, which is where the pre-1930s stone and brick stock sits. If you are outside that and unsure, ask — we will tell you plainly whether we can help rather than take the enquiry and work it out later.
The oldest stone stock sits in the inner ring and along the coast, and that is where most of the calls come from.
Tell us what the wall is doing. We will arrange someone to meter it and put the cause in writing.
