Port Moody · Since 2001
Epoxy and industrial floor coatings in Port Moody.
Strata towers over parkades around the Evergreen Line stations, buildings at the head of Burrard Inlet, and steep sites with long ramps behind them.
Port Moody
Parkades under towers, beside the water
Much of the concrete in Port Moody that needs attention is underground. The town centre around Suter Brook, Newport Village and the Inlet Centre and Moody Centre stations on the Evergreen Line is built over parking — podium and underground parkades beneath residential towers and mixed-use blocks — and those decks are usually a strata’s largest maintenance liability.
The membrane on a suspended deck keeps water and de-icing salt out of the slab and away from the reinforcing steel. When it wears through in the drive aisles and on the ramps, the damage is quiet for years and then expensive: spalling, corroded rebar and leaks into the levels below. A depreciation report that flags the parkade is the moment for a proper condition assessment, before the scope is priced.
Port Moody’s position at the head of Burrard Inlet adds moisture and marine air to everything, and the slopes rising behind the town centre give many buildings long ramps and groundwater arriving at their uphill walls.
- Typical work
- Parkade membranes · repair
- Common trigger
- Depreciation report
- Also serving
- Coquitlam · Port Coquitlam
Services
What we install in Port Moody
Parkade waterproofing
Traffic-bearing membranes for Port Moody parkades, ramps and roof decks.
Learn more →Structural concrete repair
Spall and rebar repair on Port Moody slabs, decks and soffits.
Learn more →Local conditions
Head of the inlet, foot of the slope
Port Moody wraps around the eastern end of Burrard Inlet, with the town centre on the flat land by the water and neighbourhoods such as College Park and Heritage Woods climbing the slopes on either side. Low ground near the shore sits close to the water table, while buildings cut into the slopes take groundwater at their uphill walls and long, steep ramps down into their parking.
Ramps are where traffic coatings wear first. Tyres accelerate, brake and turn on a slope, carrying grit and salt, and the water runs to the bottom. On Port Moody’s sloped sites we treat ramps and ramp-bottom drains as their own scope, with heavier detailing and wear coats than the flat deck areas.
Marine air off the inlet and the road salt that arrives on every tyre in winter mean chloride resistance is a baseline on exposed decks and ramps here, not an upgrade.
Where the work is
Parkades first, then the floors above them
Beyond the parkades, Port Moody’s work includes the commercial units at street level under its towers — retail, restaurant and fitness floors that need a decorative or wash-down-ready finish — and the shops and light-industrial units that serve the area. The parkade decision is walked through in the depreciation report guide, and the repair side on our concrete repair page.
Our nearest published projects are next door in Coquitlam — the random flake floor at the Hard Rock Casino and the slab of the new transfer station — with more across Burnaby and Vancouver on the projects page.
Questions
What Port Moody clients ask us.
Our parkade membrane is original and the depreciation report says it is due. Can it be recoated rather than replaced?
Sometimes. If the existing membrane is still bonded and the concrete beneath it is sound, a recoat — new wear and top coats over the prepared existing membrane — can extend its life for less than a full replacement. If it has debonded, cracked through or let water into the slab, it has to come off. A condition assessment, with adhesion checks and sounding for delamination, tells you which.
Do we have to close the whole parkade?
No — it is done in phases. Each area has to be closed to vehicles while it is prepared, coated and cured, so the work is planned level by level or section by section, with the phasing, access routes and return-to-service windows agreed with the strata and the property manager before it starts. How long each section stays closed depends on the system and the temperature.
Concrete is falling from our parkade ceiling. Can that be repaired?
Yes. Spalling on the underside of a deck usually means water and chlorides have reached the reinforcing steel from above. The loose concrete is removed, the exposed rebar is cleaned and treated, and the section is rebuilt with repair mortar overhead. Repairing the soffit without fixing the membrane above it only buys time.
Do you also work in Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam?
Yes. Port Moody, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Anmore and Belcarra are all part of our Tri-Cities service area, worked from our North Vancouver base.
Site assessments
Have a slab in Port Moody you're worried about?
Photographs and a rough area are enough to start. We'll come out, test moisture, and scope it properly.
Main (604) 968-2040
Second (604) 230-0256
estimating@westpacificcoatings.com