Elevation and external facade leakage treatment
Rain does not always fall on a building. For a few hours in every storm it is driven at it sideways, and then the elevation — the face you paid the most to make look good — is doing the job of a roof. Sunshades, decorative grooves, ledges and cladding joints each hold water long enough to let it in.
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You probably need this if…
- An outside wall goes damp inside only after a storm from one direction
- Water marks running down from under a sunshade or a ledge
- Cladding, ACP or stone joints open, with the sealant hardened and cracked
- Damp around a projection, a cornice or a moulding
What causes it
The same wet patch can come from different places, and each one needs a different fix. This is what we look for on site.
- 01
Sunshades with no fall and no drip groove
A flat sunshade holds water on top and lets what runs off it track back along the underside into the wall. Both are solved with a slope and a groove.
- 02
Decorative grooves that hold water
A groove cut across the face for looks is a gutter with nowhere to drain. In driven rain it fills, and it stays full long enough to soak the plaster.
- 03
Sealant past its life
Silicone hardens, shrinks and pulls away from one side of the joint within a few years. From then on the joint is open, and painting over it does nothing.
- 04
External plaster and paint treated as waterproofing
An exterior emulsion resists water for a while. It is not a coating, and on a face that takes driven rain every season it is not enough on its own.
- 05
Scaffolding holes and fixings left open
Tie holes, anchor points and old signage fixings go straight through the plaster. Each one is a small, direct hole into the wall.
Our elevation leakage process
Step by step, in this order. Nothing is skipped to finish a day early.
- 01
Survey with proper access
An elevation cannot be judged from the ground. We go down the face on rope access or a cradle and look at every joint, groove and shade before quoting.
- 02
Sunshades and ledges first
The top surface is sloped away from the wall and coated, and a drip groove is cut under the outer edge so water leaves the soffit instead of running back.
- 03
Rake out and re-seal every joint
Old sealant is cut out completely rather than covered over, the joint is cleaned and primed, and a UV-stable sealant is run and tooled to shed water.
- 04
Fill cracks and plug holes
Cracks are grooved and filled, tie holes and fixing points are packed and made flush, so the coat that follows has a continuous surface.
- 05
Elastomeric coat over the face
A flexible exterior coat goes over the treated elevation. It bridges hairline cracks that would otherwise open again in the first hot season.
- 06
Hose test from outside
The treated face is hosed section by section with someone watching inside, so the work is proved before the access comes down.
What is included
- Access by rope or cradle, agreed and priced before the work starts
- Sunshade and ledge treatment, including cutting drip grooves
- Complete removal and replacement of sealant at every joint, not an overlay
- An elastomeric exterior coat over the treated face
- A hose test with someone watching from inside before handover
Free site visit. You get the measured area and a written scope before any work starts.
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Request a site visit
Tell us what you are seeing and where. We will come and check, measure the area and give you a clear scope — the same day wherever we can.
- We work in
- Vijayawada
- Guntur
- Amaravati
- Mangalagiri
- Tenali
- Eluru
- Gannavaram
- Machilipatnam
- Bhimavaram
- Rajahmundry
- Kakinada
- Visakhapatnam
Based in Vijayawada, so we are quickest in and around the city — and we take up work across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Tell us where it leaks.
We will come and check before the next rain, measure the area and give you a clear scope in writing.