Correction of Prior Inappropriate Repairs
Our industry is plagued with professionals and contractors employing poor and inappropriate repair methods and materials.
We specialize in cleaning up after those failed attempts, and providing logical, well thought out solutions which cure the underlying root causes and are long lasting and durable.
We specialize in cleaning up after those failed attempts, and providing logical, well thought out solutions which cure the underlying root causes and are long lasting and durable.
Very poor installation of dry pack concrete repair materials on a high rise building.
Multiple, failing, partial depth, feathered edged patches in the top surface of a concrete deck in a parking garage
Bond and shrinkage cracking failures of long, shallow repairs on the edge of concrete balcony slabs
"Sealing" fractured terra cotta units with cementitious patching materials.
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Inappropriate use of stiff, cementitious patching materials ina hollow terra cotta cladding system, without corecting the underling corrosion problems.
Extremely poor concrete repair finishing practices, and placement of patches in near-freezing conditions
Failure of a poorly executed cementitious patch in an existing cast stone unit.
Formation of cracking and delamination in a concrete column above and immediately adjacent to a previously executed patch.
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"Repairing" cracked, overhanging terra cotta units by grinding and pointing the cracks with rigid mortar, rather than removing the unit and repairing the underlying causes of the cracking.
Failed, thin "dutchmen" repairs in a much thicker limestone cladding system on a high rise building
Failed patches in architetural cast stone.
Extremely poor concrete patch geometry and preparation.
Use of caulking to "repair" cracks in a severely distressed hollow terra cotta lintel
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