A new protective skin, critical facade upgrade & premium deck coating system
The Waterfront Apartments
Alameda
Sitting right on the beach with an amazing view, this apartment complex also bears the brunt of wind-driven salt air and steady UV rays. In need of a comprehensive facade repair, this project included concrete spall repair, wall coating, trim coating, coating of the metal rails, and coating of the balcony decks and catwalks.
While projects like this can be expensive, we recommend doing all restoration scopes when possible, even if the work needs to be broken into phases to accommodate budget constraints. Because it requires scaffolds and swingstages to access the areas, if you do the scopes at different times, you are paying twice as much to access the same area.
What We Did
Coated exterior stucco walls, soffits, and wood trim elements.
Repaired numerous spalls at balcony slab edges
Installed new urethane coatings on balconies
Coated elevated walkways with specialty urethane traffic coating
Treated metal handrails with industrial direct-to-metal coating
Project Details
On this project, the balconies represent the bulk of the substrate repair work that is needed. Many of the balcony decks are covered with a synthetic turf carpet that looks attractive but traps moisture against the uncoated concrete deck underneath—a recipe for concrete spalls.
In addition, the handrail bases were not caulked. These 2 factors together were the contributing factors to the many concrete spalls, many of which were so large that they needed to be formed and poured. After the repair mortar was fully cured, we installed a premium deck coating system that included the Gaco urethane pedestrian traffic coating, consisting of a prime coat, a base coat, a wear coat with walnut shell aggregate, and a urethane topcoat.
Once repaired, the deck edges and balcony rail bases were caulked and cleaned with wire wheels before being coated with a special rust-inhibiting primer and topcoated with Dunn Edwards Endura Coat industrial metal finish coating.
The stucco walls were in generally good shape, needing only a good cleaning, some light crack repair, and two coats of premium exterior acrylic paint. The suspended walkways, however, were a logistical challenge because that was the only way in and out for the residents, so we had to select a coating that dried fast and could be applied in as few steps as possible.
We selected Sikalastic 726 Balcony One Shot for this purpose so that after the walkways were prepped and primed, base, wear coat, and topcoat could go down all at the same time. This is an ideal solution for quick-turnaround applications that still need a premium urethane traffic coating. Finally, the rails were cleaned, abraded, and coated with Dunn Edwards Enduracoat industrial metal paint, and this beachside apartment complex had a new protective skin.
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