We specialize in diagnosing and treating all forms of damp. Lets elliminate your damp problem, halt moisture rise and restore your brickwork.
We do not look at a water stain and start painting over it. We use structural science to identify the root cause before we ever touch a trowel.
Visible damp is usually just the symptom. To find the source—whether it's a failed flashing hidden behind a gutter or a compromised Damp Proof Course—we utilize:
Groundwater drawn upwards through the brickwork via capillary action, usually due to a failed or missing DPC. Causes bubbling plaster and salt crystallization at skirting board levels. Requires chemical injection barriers.
Moisture traveling horizontally through walls due to driving rain hitting porous bricks, cracked plaster, or unsealed parapets. Requires severe weather coatings and crack cross-stitching.
Water ingress from soil resting against an exterior wall (e.g., built-in planters, retaining walls, or raised ground levels). Requires positive/negative side tanking membranes.
Johannesburg homes endure intense winter UV radiation followed by violent summer hail. Our systems are engineered to handle extreme thermal expansion.
Common in Fourways and modern estates. Acrylic paint with a membrane will fail here. We use heavy-duty, multi-layer torch-on bitumen (Derbigum style) or seamless polyurethane liquid plastics to handle standing water.
We do not just paint over it. We drill and inject chemical silane/siloxane damp-proofing cream to create a new DPC. We then hack off salt-contaminated plaster and re-plaster using specific salt-retardant additives.
Joburg's high winds tear off poorly applied membranes. We strip failing acrylics, reseal ridge caps with flexible polymer mortars, and heavily waterproof highly vulnerable parapet walls and box gutters.
Rubble removed daily.
Damp-proofing involves chipping away old plaster, generating massive amounts of fine dust. Flat roofing involves sticky molten bitumen primers and open open gas flames. We respect your home.
We do not hide behind fresh paint. We show you the "naked" structural work that guarantees a permanent fix.
Moisture reading at 85%. Plaster clearly blown due to failed DPC.
Plaster stripped to raw brick. Chemical barrier injected directly into mortar line.
Replastered with salt-retardant cement. Primed, painted, and guaranteed for 10 years.
"We had three different 'contractors' try to fix the rising damp in our 1950s Parkview home. It peeled every year. Allwork actually brought moisture meters, drilled into the brick, and injected the chemical barrier. Two rainy seasons later, the walls are bone dry."
"Survived the worst December hail storms with absolutely zero leaks on our flat concrete roof in Bryanston. They stripped the old useless paint and torch-on'd a proper Derbigum layer. Absolute professionals, handled the messy tar work perfectly clean."
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