What this site is for, and its limits

What this site is

Dryside is an independent information resource about concrete leak sealing and resin injection. It researches and publishes technical material on the subject and provides a self-assessment tool.

It is not a building contractor. It holds no building licence, employs no tradespeople, and does not carry out, offer to carry out, or arrange building work. Nothing on this site is an offer to attend a property, inspect it, supply materials, quote a job or perform a repair.

Any contract for building work is between the property owner and the contractor they engage. This site is not a party to it, and any quote, warranty or guarantee comes from that contractor and not from here.

How the site is funded

Details submitted through the enquiry form are passed to a licensed waterproofing contractor, and the site is paid in connection with those referrals. That is stated because a reader is entitled to know it before deciding what weight to give anything here.

What it does not change: these pages set out in detail when injection is the wrong repair, including fifteen documented situations where the correct advice is not to proceed. Those pages cost the site the referral, and they are there because a repair that will not work costs the reader more.

What the material here is, and is not

The guides, the topic pages and the diagnostic are general information about how water gets through concrete and what typically stops it. They are not a site inspection, not a diagnosis of any particular building, not a specification, and not a quote.

The diagnostic returns a probable cause from a handful of answers and says so on the result. It is not a substitute for someone examining the actual element, and where the answers suggest structural movement it recommends an engineer rather than a waterproofer.

Cost figures are indicative market bands gathered from published rates and industry sources. They are not offers, not fixed prices, and not prices available from anybody. Real prices depend on access, quantity, the condition of the element and what is found on the day.

When to stop reading and call someone

A wall that is leaning, bulging or showing stepped cracking through the mortar joints is a structural question, and it needs an engineer rather than a website or a waterproofer. Nothing here should be used to talk anyone out of that.

Accuracy

The technical material is researched carefully and cites Australian Standards where they apply, but standards get revised, products change and buildings differ. Where a page names a standard or a clause, confirm the current edition applies to the project in question before relying on it in a report or a specification.

To the extent the law allows, the material is provided as is and no liability is accepted for decisions taken in reliance on it. Corrections are welcome and are acted on.

Information submitted here

What is collected and who receives it is set out on the privacy page.

Getting in touch about the site

Questions or corrections about the site itself can be sent through the enquiry form, marked as being about the website rather than about a leak. Questions about a quote, a warranty or work already carried out are for the contractor concerned.