Q-Tech Waterproofing has extensive training in the use of concrete repair products from leading global manufacturers to repair or restore structural integrity and can provide coating systems to protect the surface from airborne carbons. Composite strengthening is required and has become an accepted method of strengthening structures where upgrade is required.
Exposed Concrete buildings suffer from movement and water infiltration that cause the internal steel reinforcing rods to rust and expand.
The expanding steel causes the concrete to crack and spall. Water can easily travel in the widened cracks and cause rapid structural Damage.
All repairs can be tailored to each individual building for approval by the building’s owners. Over 95% of Basement cracks are non-structural; the only problem is the water seepage in time will cause spalling at a later date.
Once this occurs the structural integrity is compromised in some areas due to poor construction methods and increased loadings. A composite strengthening can be applied as part of the repair procedure and the integrity of the structure is re-established.
