How To Get Rid Of Rising Damp

You can often smell and sense damp before you can see it. When it finally does appear it’s a costly, unhealthy nuisance that has to be dealt with fast.

Rising damp destroys the comfort of a home, creating musty smells and causing or aggravating asthma and allergies.

If left untreated, rising damp can carry soluble salts up into the masonry, causing what’s known as efflorescence, which can eventually destroy foundations and in severe cases result in once solid masonry eroding and crumbling away.

Right now parts of Australia are in the grip of a rising damp and mould scourge.

According to Scott Lambert, national managing director of Dr Damp, it’s the worst he’s seen in 15 years of business.