Insights
What we have learned, written down.
Practical writing on traffic membranes, industrial floors and concrete repair in British Columbia — aimed at strata councils, property managers and facility teams.
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Freeze–thaw and road salt on the Sea-to-Sky
Why decks and parkades in Whistler and Squamish wear differently from coastal ones, and the five detailing decisions that answer the corridor.
Read it →Restore or replace a commercial flat roof
The four questions that decide it: bond, moisture, drainage and whether a new membrane sticks to what is there.
Read it →How a fabric-reinforced liquid roof membrane works
Base coats, fabric, top membrane and wet film: what each layer of a liquid-applied flat roof does.
Read it →A flat roof inspection checklist
What to look at on a flat roof, what to write down, and what the findings mean, for property and facility managers.
Read it →Polished concrete: what aggregate exposure decides
Why the depth of the grind, not the brochure, decides how a polished floor looks, and why a mock-up on your own slab is the real specification.
Read it →What a parkade condition assessment should include
Why parkade tenders priced without one come back as three prices for three different projects, and the six things an assessment should establish first.
Read it →Traffic membrane vs epoxy on a suspended slab
The most expensive specification error in BC: why the cheaper quote on a suspended parkade slab is quietly a structural repair project.
Read it →Epoxy vs urethane vs polyaspartic
Three chemistries, not three price tiers. How to choose by what actually hits the floor — heat, chemistry, UV and how long the space can be out of service.
Read it →What a concrete moisture test actually tells you
Why coatings blister on damp slabs, what RH and calcium chloride tests actually measure, and how a proper survey changes what gets specified.
Read it →Six reasons a parkade membrane fails years before it should
Most traffic membranes that fail early were not worn out. They were installed onto a substrate, a detail or a drainage condition that was never going to work.
Read it →Reference
The two guides most people start with.
Coating systems compared
Traffic membranes, epoxies, urethane mortar and polished concrete — what each is genuinely for, and where each one stops working.
Read the guide →Depreciation report flagged your parkade?
What the scope actually contains, how it phases around residents, and what your engineer will require before anyone prices it.
Read the guide →Parkade waterproofing
How we install traffic-bearing membranes on occupied buildings without closing the building.
Learn more →Next step
Have a floor or a deck you are unsure about?
Describe the building and what is going wrong. We will tell you what we think it is, and whether it needs an engineer before it needs a contractor.
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