In today’s world, embracing the “Go Green” lifestyle has become essential. We bring nature closer to our living spaces through potted plants, plant pits, flower beds, or rooftop gardens. But, while plants enhance our living environments, water leakage from planters and green spaces can lead to significant damage. If not managed properly, leakage…
Modern High-Rise buildings have typical floor plates stacked one above the other. The location of wet rooms, viz toilets, kitchens, dry balconies are built around a central core with the passage in between and habitable spaces around it. In case of leakages in the ceiling of habitable spaces, the obvious link of source of the…
The city of Mumbai has a climate that can bring out the best and worst in its throbbing population and their living conditions. Heavy rains can lash the city with tremendous force and has the capacity to bring “the city that never sleeps” to a virtual standstill. The scorching summer heat is capable of melting the tar on…
It is often seen that builders and developers are focused on the external design features of the structure, while critical areas like waterproofing it often go unnoticed. Areas like wall coatings, gaps between walls and tiling of the terrace area are ignored. Major leakage issues in the buildings are in the dead wall. What is…
Modern buildings, the ones built in the 21t century are a complex mix of functionality with abundance of support services like basement , podium for parking, play area at ground , and even terraces in common place. High rise buildings with multiple stack of wet areas like kitchen, toilets, and balconies. In commercial buildings large…
https://youtu.be/SveEm5LMeJg Waterproofing is essential for all the structures globally. We living in Mumbai and around do face heavy rains which makes waterproofing very important. Every building new or old should get the waterproofing inspection to keep a check before Mumbai monsoon. It is essential to waterproof our buildings so as to avoid damages caused by…
Building maintenance is an important part of the real estate industry and is worth crores of rupees of business every year. The process by which a building structure is maintained and kept operational so that the building occupants can use it at a pre determined standard. Depending upon the function of the building, the standard…
The process through which a building is kept usable at a pre-decided standard so that it benefits its users or occupants is known as building maintenance. This standard can differ depending upon building’s function and use. Building maintenance begins right from the time when the builder or developer completes a formal handover and exits the…
Membrane waterproofing, finishing surface as well as under layer is the right solution where horizontal surfaces are raised up to a height of 1-0”(300mm) vertically anchored with metal strips to avoid sagging. Using waterproofing membrane to keep leakages away Here are a few advantages of membrane water-proofing: As compared to liquid applied coating, while using…
Do you see damp patches on the walls at home? Fungus spots on the ceiling? Layers of flaking paint? Or Mildew on walls? If the answers to above questions are in the affirmative, it is time to wake up to these tell-tale signs. These are signals your home it giving out that it is under…