PFI remedial works are the facade repairs you have to carry out after a Periodic Facade Inspection rates your facade "Require Repair" or "Unsafe". Make the unsafe items safe first. Then carry out the Competent Person's repairs across the whole facade under a Professional Engineer's...
A condo repaint lasts only as long as the facade under it. Your MCST pays for the repaint from the sinking fund, and the coat holds only if you clear six defect types first: loose elements, spalling concrete, hollow or cracked render, failed sealant, active...
Paint bubbles when water or vapour pushes out from behind the film, so a blister tells you the wall has a water source you need to stop before any repaint will hold. In Singapore homes that source is one of five: rain through the external...
Elastomeric paint is a high-build acrylic exterior coating that stretches with your wall. It covers static hairline cracks under about 0.3 mm, but only once the film reaches its rated thickness: 140 microns for Nippon's WeatherBond Flex, about 340 microns for Sika's full-durability spec. Cracks...
Waterproof paint sheds rain off a sound vertical wall. It's an elastic exterior coating about 0.1 to 0.2 mm thick. A waterproofing membrane is a continuous barrier 0.6 mm or thicker that holds back standing water, water pressure and crack movement, which is why flat...
