About · Rising Damp Brisbane
Rising Damp Brisbane exists because damp repair in this city is split between generalists who treat it as a sideline and quick-fix painters who make it worse. We do one thing: connect owners of Brisbane's older homes with licensed specialists who diagnose properly, quote in writing, and warranty the result.
Who we are
We're a Brisbane-based referral service focused entirely on structural damp in the city's older housing stock — the pre-war Queenslanders and early brick homes of the inner suburbs. Every assessment and treatment is carried out by independent, QBCC-licensed, insured damp and waterproofing specialists experienced with heritage and character homes. Our role is matching your problem with the right specialist and standing behind the process: honest diagnosis, fixed written quotes, and a 20-year workmanship warranty on treatment.
Damp is the most misdiagnosed problem in Brisbane homes. Rising damp, lateral damp, salt attack and subfloor condensation look nearly identical on the wall and need four different fixes — and treating the wrong one wastes thousands while the real problem spreads. A specialist who sees these walls every week reads the pattern correctly. That's the entire value: diagnosis first, treatment second.
The inner heritage belt: Paddington, Red Hill, Bardon, Ashgrove, The Gap, Auchenflower, Milton, Toowong, West End, Highgate Hill, Windsor, Wooloowin, Grange and surrounds — the suburbs where pre-1946 construction, clay soils and the flood history make damp a fact of life. Outside the belt? Ask; we usually can.
If it isn't rising damp, you'll hear that. If the fix is landscaping rather than injection, you'll hear that too — free. And every quote is fixed and written, so the price you accept is the price you pay. See how the process works or the cost guide for the numbers.
Describe what you're seeing in your home and we'll arrange the free assessment — or just tell you what it probably is.
We connect you with QBCC-licensed damp specialists servicing inner Brisbane. No obligation, no cost for the assessment.