Too many Sydney roofs leak twice
Remedial waterproofing Sydney
Someone waterproofed it once and it failed. That's the job we exist for: finding out why, fixing the cause and making sure there's no third time.
Remedial waterproofing is detective work first
Water is patient and it lies. It enters at a parapet crack, tracks four metres along a slab soffit and drips from a light fitting nowhere near the fault. Remedial work starts with finding the truth: moisture readings, water testing section by section, and stripping back finishes where the evidence points. We don't quote the fix until we can show you the cause, in photos, in plain English.
What we remediate
- Failed torch-on, liquid and sheet membranes on roofs, balconies and podiums
- Leaking parapets, capping and box gutters
- Planter boxes drowning the rooms beneath them
- Concrete cancer driven by long-term water entry, in partnership with structural repairers
- Botched or underspecced waterproofing from defect reports and building inspections
Fix the cause, not the symptom
The waterproofing industry runs on re-repairs: a smear of sealant over a failed seam, a clear coat over drummy tiles, an invoice every eighteen months. We don't do subscription repairs. If a targeted repair will genuinely hold, we do it with torch-welded membrane and stand behind it. If the system is dead, we say so, show you why, and quote the replacement once, properly.
Who calls us
Strata managers holding defect reports. Builders closing out warranty claims. Homeowners on their second or third waterproofer. Building consultants who need remediation done to the letter of their specification. The common thread: they can't afford for it to leak again, and with us it doesn't.
- Leak detection with moisture readings and staged water testing
- Photo-documented diagnosis before any quote
- Torch-welded repairs that actually hold
- Full membrane replacement when repair is a false economy
- Defect report and specification-driven remediation
No fluff. No buzzwords.
Straight answers
How do you find the source of a leak?
Methodically. We inspect the likely entry points above the symptom, take moisture readings, and water-test one section at a time until the leak reproduces. It's slower than guessing, and much cheaper than re-waterproofing the wrong area.
The previous waterproofer's repair failed. Why would yours hold?
Because we fix causes and weld our repairs. Most failed repairs are sealant or liquid membrane smeared over a fault that was never diagnosed. We strip back to sound membrane or substrate, torch new bitumen sheet into the system and detail it by hand. Then we put a warranty on it.
Do you work from building consultant defect reports?
Yes, regularly. Give us the report and specification and we'll quote to it line by line, flag anything in the spec we'd push back on, and document the works so your consultant can sign off without a second visit.
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