Rising damp in Glenelg, South Australia

Rising Damp Adelaide arranges on-site salt damp assessments across Glenelg and the rest of Adelaide. Someone meters the wall at several heights, compares the ground outside against the floor inside, and puts the cause in writing before anyone quotes a repair.

Salt damp in Glenelg

Glenelg sits on sand with a shallow water table close to the beach, and salt in groundwater is simply a fact of building here. Limestone is common and it is soft and very porous, so it takes up moisture readily and shows salt damage early. The silver lining is that sandy ground drains far better than the clay inland, so correcting levels and drainage tends to produce a faster and more visible improvement in Glenelg than the same work does in Goodwood or Prospect.

Why it shows up when it does

The stock here is limestone, sandstone and brick, many eras. What matters as much is the damp course: varies widely. Get that wrong and the repair is the wrong repair, which is how owners end up paying to inject a wall that already had a working course and needed its paving cut back instead.

Worth remembering that Adelaide is not a wet city. It gets less rain than Hobart does. What it has is the swing between a wet winter and a genuinely hot dry summer, and that swing is the engine that drives salt into the stone.

Arranging an assessment in Glenelg

Assessment and written diagnosis cost nothing. A fixed price follows, itemised, so you can see what is drainage, what is damp course and what is stone repair.

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