Rising damp in Brompton, South Australia

Plenty of Brompton owners have a wet wall and no idea which of five or six faults they have. Rising Damp Adelaide arranges an assessment that settles it, and the written finding is yours to take to any contractor you like.

Brompton housing and salt damp

Brompton has changed a great deal, and the surviving old cottages now often sit beside new construction on reworked ground. That is worth knowing, because regrading a neighbouring block, a new driveway or a fresh slab next door can change where surface water goes and start a damp problem in a wall that was dry for a century. When a Brompton owner tells us the damp appeared recently and the house did not change, we ask what happened next door.

What the ground does here

Brompton is largely bluestone and brick cottages among recent development, and the damp course position is none in the original stock. Those two facts narrow the diagnosis a long way before anyone touches the wall — the material decides whether the water travels in the stone or in the mortar, and the era decides whether there is a barrier to have failed in the first place.

None of this would matter nearly as much in a mild climate. Adelaide records about 540.6mm of rain across 82.0 days, then dries hard — a 3pm humidity near 36 per cent in February. Every one of those cycles deposits more salt inside the masonry.

Booking a Brompton assessment

There is no charge for the assessment and no obligation afterwards. What treatment costs depends on the material, the access and how much salt is already in the wall — the published ranges cover it.

Nearby: Glenelg, Mile End, North Adelaide, Norwood.