Basements below the water table, bathrooms leaking through a whole building, and a structure built with no waterproofing at all. Each record is the defect, the cause behind it and the rectification, photographed on the job.
Seven levels below ground and sitting below the natural water table, the basement at Bond Quarter suffered heavy water ingress, flooding the lower levels and putting the building's car stacker out of action. Working at depth and against constant hydrostatic pressure, we designed and installed a purpose-engineered waterproofing and drainage management system, permanently resolving the ingress and returning the car stacker to full operation.
The builder constructed the basement without a waterproofing system, and discovered after construction why basements must be waterproofed properly from the start. With the external side no longer accessible, we designed a negative-side solution, combining injection systems with highly skilled applicators to seal the structure from within. The ingress was treated permanently, without excavation.
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Groundwater was penetrating the warehouse floor and walls. The engineering challenge was that the obvious external drainage solutions would have required an easement over neighbouring land. We designed a rectification system delivered entirely within the property boundary, resolving the ingress permanently without any encumbrance on adjoining owners.
Years of patch repairs had left the building with four separate layers of waterproofing applied over one another, with no system behind them, and the leaks continued. We stripped the accumulated layers back, diagnosed the underlying failures, and installed one properly designed, compliant system in a single coordinated rectification, replacing years of patching with a long-term solution.
The building's bathrooms were prefabricated pods, installed without water stops. The result was water ingress across the majority of apartments. Rather than chasing each leak individually, we diagnosed the common installation defect, designed a single repeatable rectification, and delivered it across the affected apartments, resolving the issue building-wide, permanently.
A single, slow water leak is one of the most destructive forces a timber structure can face. Given enough time, it will quietly destroy everything it touches. In this Carlton property, years of concealed moisture had decayed the timber beyond repair. We removed and replaced the affected structure and finishes in full, and rectified the source, so the damage ends here.
