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Two reception rooms showed signs of damp in the corners where walls were adjacent to the property next door and the owners wanted to rectify the problem before it got any worse. The project involved the removal of carpets, skirting boards, fires and plaster prior to installing the system over a period of seven days.[…]
Energy savings Providing an end to penetrating damp from rain and producing energy savings of up to 29%, Stormdry can be applied by brush or roller and cures colourlessly to the original finish of masonry in 12 hours. Stormdry offers substrate protection for up to 30 years after a single coat and is more deeply[…]
Waterproofing system eradicates water ingress at derelict basement Water was seeping through construction joints in the slab of the 1000sq metre floor area and the vertical RC walls were allowing in large amounts of liquid, with the basement being deemed unusable for a number of years. Dewatering pipes were installed on the vertical planes and[…]
The mixture provides a high strength waterproof render BBA Approved Ronafix Mix E provides high strength waterproof render Work was undertaken to convert the building into a branch of the coffee house chain Caffe Nero, with Ronacrete’s technical team recommending Ronafix Mix E in order to provide a BBA Approved, durable high strength waterproof render[…]
Parkside fire station in central Cambridge The BBA approved Hydrotech system delivers a waterproofing system which will last for the lifetime of the building. Hydrotech was chosen for Cambridge Fire Station as it offered a perfect solution to deal with the large number of zero falls points on the roof. Doug McGuigan, Operations Director at installers[…]
Clifton Library building Nottingham Trent University was replaced with Derbigum Olivine mineral roofing membrane The complete design package was installed by M&J Roofing Ltd after Alumasc identified Derbigum Olivine was as the right waterproofing solution which offered added environmental benefits including: bituminous membrane with a naturally occurring mineral upper layer that neutralises CO2 in rainwater, via[…]
Weekly power cuts and frequent bad weather was the cause of regular damp problems and damage in the basement of the house, with a previous waterproofing system being inadequately installed and leaving the property unable to cope with the high volumes of water during the power outage. The Victron Quattro Inverter was specified in order[…]
Contractor CCL installed the Newton 500 internal Type C Cavity Drain Membrane system to the Type B reinforced concrete box structure, working together to capture any water ingress that may occur through joints in the concrete structure. The Newton Titan-Pro sump system, complete with full battery backup protection, was fitted alongside the Newton Acriflex via[…]
A total of 5,500 square metres of DuPont Tyvek Housewrap was supplied to achieve significant levels of airtightness, moisture control, thermal performance and comfort at the new properties. The system meets the requirements of the Building Regulations, reduces air leakage to a minimum and allows air permeability to reach levels no higher than 1m3/m2/hr through[…]
The construction involved the installation of a watertight concrete base slab with welded sheet piled walls and a concrete capping beam, used to produce a Type B integral waterproofing solution to BS8102:2009 standards. Some 800 4.1kg bags of TT Admix were supplied upon completion of the work, with around 120 being used for the capping[…]
