Structural Repairs
West Coatings is an experienced waterproofing contractor with a dedicated team focused on waterproofing systems. We offer detailed recommendations and solutions designed for your property's specific structural and environmental needs.
Our team is responsive and will reach out within 24 hours to discuss your project needs.
Structural Repairs
The West Coatings team offers a range of structural repair and protection services designed to protect your structure from the elements and solving moisture control problems. Regardless of the structure type, choosing appropriate waterproofing solutions and techniques requires an evaluation of factors, such as cause/effect relationships, useful life, constructability, environment, aesthetics, and the overall cost-benefits of the alternatives.
Crack Sealing & Repair
We provide leak detection services and thermography to identify leak locations, a detailed understanding of the crack locations is imperative to providing a solution to repairing the cracks appropriately. We seek to appropriately identify these areas to provide solutions that will benefit the structure accordingly.
Protective Sealers, Coatings & Membranes
Our waterproofing systems installed to match the manufacturer's specifications and requirements regarding the type of substrates, existing conditions and environmental conditions of your structure. We work closely with industry-leading manufacturers to deliver waterproofing sealing, coatings and membrane systems that are recommended for your structure and the location of the structure.
Sealant Systems
Masonry, Brick, CMU, Stone or Cementous substrates requires varied product assemblies and inspection standards to ensure the proper repairs are performed prior to applying sealant systems. Due to the porous nature of this substrate the mil thickness and number of applications will vary based on the substrate. We perform mil thickness tests to ensure we have an appropriate build of product for all masonry applications.
Drainage Systems
In many cases, the drainage systems are a main cause of structural integrity issues. We offer detailed inspections regarding your drainage systems included in our inspection process to ensure the existing system is in working condition and isn't causing unnecessary damage to your structure. We offer a range of drainage systems repairs, membranes and solutions to repair your existing system.
Expansion Joint Systems
When expansion joint concerns are identified we inspect the structural integrity and settling causes closely, we offer a range of grouting solutions, expansion joint injections and repairs designed to prevent water intrusion to the identified areas.
Structural Repair Standards
We offer a range of structural repair systems designed for commercial properties to provide the appropriate waterproofing solutions and repairs needed to preserve your structure. Our company provides solutions to improve the structural integrity and provide weather protection against the elements.
1. Identification of the appropriate repairs and systems
Understanding the technical guidelines and project specific quality control processes for your waterproofing system is how we provide ownership assurance. Our team is educated a range of repair and waterproofing solutions and the correct specifications needed for each repair type & application application. The West Coatings team works closely with product manufacturers to educate our team on the best product assemblies that correspond to the substates we apply them to.
2. Product & Engineering
West Coatings maintains documentation on all structural repair projects - we store your engineering and system information on file and ensure ownership has the correct maintenance documentation to ensure further protection measures. This allows us to ensure warranties, support your site team and reduce future repairs by working with the site team regarding best practice.
3. Surface Preparation Standards
Prior to starting the application process, one of the most important steps is the preparation performed prior to installing waterproofing systems. Every waterproofing installation we perform includes appropriate substrate cleaning and a series of steps for each substrate type to ensure the surface is prepared for the best adhesion possible. A paint job is only as good as the preparation.
4. Warranty Assurance
Our work is backed by our industry leading workmanship warranty and installed to manufacturer specifications to ensure your product warranties are intact. Determining the correct products for your local environment and coordinating the color design is what our team does best.
5. Project Planning to Minimize Tenant & Staff Impact
It is extremely important to our company that your tenants and staff aren't impacted by our work, our company process is designed to offer a high-level of detail and coordination to ensure your tenants are impressed by our team's ability to work in complex environments and take the extra steps necessary to protect all areas of your property, including those that aren't being repaired.
FAQ
How important is it to catch waterproofing issues at an early stage?
Timing is critical to catching waterproofing issues, over time degradation of the structure can become very costly and further deteriorate the structure. Detailed inspections at an early stage can save you the unexpected costs of replacement or invasive repairs.
How long does it take to get a structural repair or waterproofing quote?
We respond to inquiries within three business days, and aim to provide a detailed quote within three weeks after conducting a site visit and assessing the project requirements. Depending on the nature of the repairs needed and engineering requirements, estimates can take much longer to produce.
Is it possible to repair a structure that had been structurally compromised and structurally deteriorated?
Repairs are typically preferred where the other buildings on the property are remaining intact, repairing your structure can cost a fraction of the cost.
What time of year is best for structural repairs?
While it can depend on the region, spring, summer, and early fall are typically considered the best times for structural repairs & waterproofing systems, as the weather is usually mild and conducive to application and drying. It is essential to avoid extreme temperatures (too hot or too cold) and rainy or humid conditions, as they can negatively affect the waterproofing system's performance and drying process.
Our Company Process
West Coatings has standardized our processes with a unique value-chain designed to improve efficiencies, produce a quality product and service our clients in a similar manner on all projects. From conceptual to warranty assurance we provide a level of detail to your project to ensure your project needs are met.
Project Profile
Every project starts with our formal project profile review, we seek to understand the intentions of your project closely and determine the site/existing conditions that will impact your project and budget needs. We organize the project details closely with our accounts and estimating team to provide project recommendations and a scope of work that aligns with your goals.
Project Request & Existing Conditions
West Coatings will request the initial intentions of your project prior to performing an inspection. We review the request and create an initial profile for our estimating team to reference. Once we've reviewed your property details we create an inspection map and perform a site inspection. Our team organizes a detailed inspection report to inform our estimating process.
Through this process we seek to understand the existing conditions that will impact the project to have a complete scope of work defined that our estimating team will build from and ultimately operations team will utilize to perform the scope of work.
Determining the Scope of Work
Our team will work closely with your project stakeholders to define the scope of work and utilize techniques to drive down costs without sacrificing the quality of your project. We organize the project details and analyze the existing conditions of your project closely to ensure we have a complete and defined scope of work.
We leverage supplier and manufacturer relationships to align their products and our volume purchasing abilities to install systems that are designed for your project, to provide the ideal option for your project.
Estimating
We provide detailed estimates. Our pricing model considers factors like market-rate pricing and assembly costs that are competitive. All of our estimates utilize the same pricing structure and cost markup to ensure we can maintain the best prices for the various installations we provide. Ultimately we seek to provide the winning price, and it is important to use to maintain consistent pricing that our clients can count on.
Budget Considerations
West Coatings understands the need for project budgets with commercial properties, we seek to understand these intentions once we have reviewed the project profile and start working on providing a scope of work.
When considering the main project constraints we look closely at how we can extend value back to our clients by providing a scope that aligns closely with project budget constraints.
A Transparent Pricing Model
We prioritize our ownerships intentions and need to understand the project details closely, many projects require an ownership and management team to be involved in the decision making process. Our pricing model is understood through itemizing our bids in a transparent model that is accompanied with a detailed scope of work to reference to provide the project stakeholders with the necessary information to make an informed decision.
Product Assemblies
Not all products are the same, nor all contractors. We have aligned ourselves and negotiated the best costs on the products we can stand behind. Our team regularly educates ourselves on the best assemblies and products and work closely with our supplier and manufacturers to ensure the products we use are recommended for the applications we are installing and ultimately standing behind through our warranties.
Industry Leading Products
We are only as good as the products we are utilizing and the way we install these materials. Our company only works with reputable product manufacturers and regularly review our material costs to leverage the best pricing we can to extend these savings back to our clients.
Understanding the product assemblies, variations and installation techniques is important to our company. In our industry we've sought to minimize the variation of product installation and we purchase the materials that we specify in our estimates to ensure the correct products are installed.
Installation Practices
Our teams follow surface preparation standards directly from our product manufacturers to ensure the integrity of our products, we prioritize the details of every product and layer we install to ensure product integrity. When performing a project we spend the necessary time with our installation teams and review the assembly instructions prior to starting work on every project.
Warranty Assurance
West Coatings stands behind our installations, we work with our manufacturer reps to ensure product integrity that can be warrantied. Our installations include a one-source warranty and workmanship warranty to provide the assurance to our clients that their work is guaranteed from product defects or workmanship errors.
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Project Design
Our in-house design team can assist with providing color, product and location design services to ensure you have the correct selections prior to starting your project. The West Coatings model has an integrated approach to design and project planning where the design process is closely planned considering the project requirements
Color Design
The West Coatings design team specializes in selecting products and providing visualization to the color selections that are selected and ultimately installed at your property. We understand the importance of property continuity and have unique approach to mapping color schemes that align with the area of the property and intentions of the design for your property.
Color Mapping
Whether you are looking to map the existing color mapping at your property or design a new color scheme by location we can assist. Our team will provide detailed color mapping plans for your review and revise according to your preferences. We have an experienced design team that will work closely with your existing design team or provide these services directly and ultimately save you design costs for your next project.
On Site Color Mockups
West Coatings performs on site color mockups to ensure you have the correct color schemes selected. We are able to save product and labor material to have these products installed early on the conceptual planning phase by selected options that have been digitally viewed and approved. Once we have the selected color schemes our team will schedule a time to perform on-site color mockups to be approved prior to starting your project.
Project Lifecycle
Once a contract is approved, our team begins working immediately on the pre-project planning efforts. We have organized our project milestones in a manner that produces efficiently, moves quickly and seeks to minimize project impact on your management team and tenants.
Pre-Project Planning
We are only as good as the products we are utilizing and the way we install these materials. Our company only works with reputable product manufacturers and regularly review our material costs to leverage the best pricing we can to extend these savings back to our clients.
Understanding the product assemblies, variations and installation techniques is important to our company. In our industry we've sought to minimize the variation of product installation and we purchase the materials that we specify in our estimates to ensure the correct products are installed.
Project Milestones & Updates
All project milestones, meetings and weekly update tracking is assembled in our company ERP software to ensure an integrated approach where all project stakeholders will be updated throughout the project lifecycle. We organize our efforts in a manner where your team understands where we are at in the process and updated in a similar approach for all projects.
We provide live photo links in our weekly reporting that allows you to track our progress and our team to make adjustments as needed to the production scheduling. Our team facilitates weekly site meetings, inspections, coordination with the site team and works closely with your staff to ensure the project can maintain a production schedule that you can count on.
Project Inspections & Approvals
Our punch-walk and inspection process has been designed to reduce burden on your site team. The West Coatings project management team is proficient in our multi-inspection process and we work closely with our installation teams to ensure product continuity, completion and integrity of our work. Ultimately we are seeking to turn over a project that minimizes additional trips and hassle once our work is completed, our team is organized an a manner that allows us to properly oversee your project and provide a high-quality service that will earn the opportunity to work on your next project.
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