Facade maintenance and concrete repair

29/07/2011

Concrete repair on a large building facade can be a simple or complex process, depending on how you go about accessing the area where work needs to take place.

Some building maintenance companies will try to convince you to scaffold the entire facade just to get to one small area of the facade needing maintenance, turning what is a relatively simple and inexpensive repair, into a monumental exercise with massive costs.

Using industrial rope access techniques, professional abseilers can safely and efficiently carry out repairs to your facade with minimal fuss. Our team of rope access concrete repair technicians, can assist you to undertake repairs easily and with minimal interruption to tenancy and the public.

Spalling repairs on a highrise building port macquarie

30/05/2011

Our specialised services in concrete repair, particularly dealing with spalls on highrise buildings, enable building owners and managers throughout the mid north coast to set aside their worries regarding high costs of access equipment.

Trust professional abseilers to descend safely to the work zone and carry out the repairs with minimal fuss. Concrete repair is what we do and we can do it cost effectively. Call us to find out how we can assist.

Concrete repair, spalling repair and rendering in difficult access situations

15/05/2011

So picture yourself 35 stories above the cbd, abseiling the outside of a building. You’ve been told that there’s a leak inside a commercial office space on level 35 and that it’s unknown what is causing this. When you get down to level 36, you notice that there is a spall that has formed in the area between the two levels.

It’s evident that water is getting behind the concrete or render. The spall looks somewhat stable, but you know that over time this piece of concrete is going to fall to the street below. So, it’s your job to fix it.

You take some photos and descend to the ground. You meet up with the building manager and advise him of the spall, which of course, he couldn’t see from the outside. Your project manager/estimator supplies the client with a quote to carry out the concrete repair. The quote is accepted and you are engaged to fix the repair.

The client is disappointed that it’s not just a seal on an expansion joint, or a window junction, but is accepting of the fact that the repair needs to be done. He or she is also counting himself lucky that you’ve found the repair in time before it falls.

So, the next day the team of abseilers arrive onsite and proceed to set up a customised catch netting system for the area where the works are required. The areas below are cordoned off for public safety and the catch net is in place. The concrete repair team can then get to work repairing the concrete.

They carefully remove the spall, making sure that this is done safely and that no concrete falls. The concrete is disposed of and removed from the works zone. The concrete repairers inspect the reinforcement which appears to have caused this particular spall. It has some corrosion and it is fortunately less than 10% loss in mass. The rebar does not need replacement, but it needs to be treated. The team get to work prepping the steel so that it’s as good as new, applying a corrosion inhibiting substance to the steel once it’s prepped to good shiny metal. Then, the team applies an acrylic polymer modified, high build render and begins to build the patch up. This is done in a couple of stages and is left to dry.

Once the repair is dry, the professional industrial rope access concrete repair team descend the facade to the works zone again and apply the skim coat to match the surrounding surfaces. The repair looks great! The team descends the facade and lets the repair dry.

Then it’s time to paint! The painting team come and descend to the works zone and paint to match the surroundings. They take photos for the client and decommission the catch net. The team descends to the ground, but not before they do a thorough visual inspection of the surrounding area and those areas below the repair. They make sure they can’t see any similar problems developing in the area surrounding the repair site. Once it’s been established that there are no other visible repair needs, or any other obvious areas where water can get in, the job is done.

After the final paperwork and report is supplied to the client, the project manager checks in with the client a few weeks later after the first rain comes through. The client is happy, as the leak has stopped and the tenants of the building are now happy as their internal office areas are leak free!

Another successful story from the industrial rope access team.

Concrete repair abseiling professionals in sydney cbd

13/04/2011

Concrete repair on a high rise building requires expertise which only comes with training and years of experience doing these types of works. Concrete repair can be done by rope access, or abseiling. Our professional team of abseilers regularly undertake remedial concrete repair works throughout sydney and beyond. Give us a call to find out how we can cut down costs on your concrete repair project.

Concrete repair Port Macquarie

19/03/2011

We provide difficult access concrete repair services from nelson bay to coffs harbour, with our primary location being port macquarie.

Our specialist industrial rope access personnel have loads of experience doing high rise concrete repair, difficult access painting and many other types of projects by abseiling.

Call our team to find out how we can help you achieve an excellent project outcome at minimal cost on 1300 789 474.

Large scale concrete repair project

08/03/2011

I have concrete spalling on my building, what do i do?

19/02/2011

So you’ve noticed that the facade of your building has some concrete issues.

It’s in a location that’s too high for repairs to be done from the ground.

What do you do? Who do you call to help you with this specialised repair?

You can’t see it up close, so is it full blown concrete cancer? Or is it just a bit of thermal expansion pressure?

The answer to this, is to get an industrial rope access, or abseiling contractor to take a look at it. Getting a regular old builder, or concrete repairer to look at this stuff is not financially viable. Concrete spalling repair can be tackled quite easily by abseiling and the first thing you need to do is get somebody up there to take a look up close to see what needs to be done.

Engage an abseiling concrete repair professional to undertake your spalling repairs.

Spalling repair specialists using rope access techniques

16/02/2011

Concrete spalling is a dangerous thing if left to get worse and worse. A very small piece of concrete falling from height can cause serious injury, or even death. Apart from the obvious public liability issues associated with concrete spalling, it’s critical to maintain your building’s concrete areas so that this does not develop into full blown concrete cancer. Getting in there early is the key and doing everything you can to stop spalling developing further.

Rope access or abseiling as it’s most commonly known, can be used as the access method to get to a spalling repair on the side of a large building or any difficult access area.

Concrete facade repair on a large scale

05/02/2011

Our guys are about to begin a five year maintenance program in sydney cbd to undertake over 400 separate concrete and render repairs on a single building facade.

The building was built in the mid 1960s and is in reasonable shape considering its age and position in relation to weather factors. However, as wear, tear and movement is always part of a building’s lifespan, small render repairs and water ingress issues have occurred which means that alot of small maintenance tasks have now added up to a large scale exercise to tend to them all in a programmed way.

Concrete repair by abseiling is one of the best ways to undertake these sorts of jobs, to reduce the time and cost of scaffolding the building etc and allow concrete repair specialists to abseil to the exact work position and undertake repairs, without having to scaffold the entire building five times over a five year period.

We are pleased to be getting a start on this project and will keep our readers updated on our progress.

How to fix concrete spalling on city buildings

18/01/2011

City buildings often have very large facades, which of course, weather and age over time. This requires maintenance be carried out on the facade and often undertaking periodic inspections is a good way to ensure that you keep on top of the concrete spalling that happens to any facade over time.

Abseil concrete spalling repair methods have advanced considerably over the years and this is probably the best way to firstly go about inspecting a facade for concrete spalling and then undertaking the works to remediate the problem.

Remedial concrete repair is a specialist service when it comes to abseiling contractors. Get an expert to give you a hand in assessing & proposing a repair schedule for your building’s facade.