◄◄   Residential Development  ►►

The Project:
Residential Development

Date:
2003

The Client:
Crocker Strata Management

The Requirement:
The brief was to solve all waterproofing issues to walls, decks and roofs.

The Solution:
The walls were cracking along joint lines, most visible to the corner wall sections. The underside to most window heads and garage heads were also cracked, in severe cases there was efflorescent staining on windows and other building elements which could not be removed. The solution was to clean out the cracks, apply a high quality sealant followed by an Equus reinforced elastomeric bodycoat to allow the panels to move under thermal loading, then apply a suitable texture coating to blend in with the surrounding texture. The head sills to all garages were fitted with a molding so that a drip edge could be formed which would prevent water from gaining entry to the garage and the cracks which had formed under the head sill. It was felt that this would prevent further stress from occurring as the polystyrene panels slowly dried out over time, in turn this would prevent any further cracking. Once this work was completed a full Equus waterproof coating system was applied to all surfaces.

The corrugated roofs had to be lifted clear of the gutters as the initial construction had the ends of the iron hard down onto the gutter membrane. Through thermal expansion and contraction the iron had cut through the membrane in many places. Once this was done the gutters were re-lined with Chevaline Dexx membrane.

The decks were all taken back to the original substrate and finished with the Chevaline Dexx membrane system.