A body corporate in KZN asks for “the roof waterproofed” and gets a quote that also covers the parking basement retaining wall with the same flexible membrane system used up top, and within a year, damp is back in the basement. The roof system wasn’t wrong. It was wrong for a wall holding back groundwater […]
A body corporate in Durban re-waterproofs the same balcony for the third time in a decade, and it leaks again within two years. Nobody involved did a bad job applying the product. The product itself was never going to work on that balcony, because nobody asked why the last one failed before choosing what to
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A trustee at a KZN body corporate gets a quote for concrete repairs to a parking garage soffit, and it’s the first one they’ve ever had to make sense of. It’s got line items like “polymer-modified mortar,” “anti-carbonation coating,” and “reinforcement passivation,” a price that’s several times the cost of repainting the lobby, and no
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