About Rising Damp Hobart

Rising Damp Hobart exists because the hardest part of a damp problem is not the repair — it is finding out what you actually have. We start with an on-site assessment and a written diagnosis. If you decide to go ahead, one specialist does the job from start to finish, on time and efficiently, with the method that suits that building.

What we do

Work is carried out by experienced local damp specialists. The first visit is a diagnosis, not a sales pitch. We measure the wall before we propose any method, and the written quote says exactly what the work covers.

Why old Tasmanian housing needs its own advice

Damp advice written for modern cavity brick, built after damp courses became standard, does not fit an older house. An 1850s sandstone cottage has no cavity, no damp course and rubble footings, and the wall behaves like a wick. Advice aimed at a 1990s brick veneer is close to useless for it.

Worse, some of it is harmful. Sealing, cement pointing and waterproof coatings are routine on modern brick and they damage soft stone — they trap the moisture in and push the damage further up the wall.

Newer houses are not exempt either. A brick-veneer home built in the last few decades was built with a damp course, and can still get rising damp when a path, a slab or a raised garden bed ends up higher than that course. Same problem, and the fix can be cheaper.

What we will tell you

That it might be condensation, not rising damp. That the cheapest fix can be lowering the ground or cutting back render, not an injected damp course. That a wall takes months to dry, and anyone promising otherwise is managing your expectations rather than your damp. And that if your property is on the Heritage Register, there is a process to follow before anybody drills into it.

No method is chosen before the wall is measured.

How the suburb figures are measured

Each suburb page has a small table of measured facts. The method is the same for every suburb, so it is written once, here. On 14 October 2026 we took a height reading at the centre of each suburb, and eight more on a ring 250 m out, from the Copernicus 90 m elevation model. Where a ring point falls on water it has no ground height, so it is left out and the table says how many. Distances to the Derwent estuary shore and to the centre of Hobart are straight lines measured on OpenStreetMap, which also lists the roads and parks. The Derwent is a tidal estuary at Hobart, so its shore is the nearest salt water. The method also looks for a waterway mapped as a named river within 30 km. It found none for these suburbs, so no table has a river row. Smaller watercourses, such as the Hobart Rivulet, are not measured.

A 90 m model smooths out small slopes. It cannot say whether your block falls toward the house or away from it, so no suburb page draws that conclusion from it. The assessment checks the ground at your wall.