Guides to waterproofing concrete roofs, balconies, basements and retaining walls in Durban and KwaZulu-Natal: how leaks happen, how to choose a system and what to ask for in a quote.
The ceiling stain on the top floor is back. The roof was waterproofed a few years ago, someone has already “patched it” once, and now a tenant or unit owner wants a fix and a date. What you spend depends on one question: is this a repair, or has the whole system reached the end
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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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