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Hollow Core Maintenance 

Does it affect your property?
Will deferred repairs affect the structural integrity and aesthetics?

Saw cutting openings to begin repairs on damaged hollow core balaconies.
Cutting into damaged hollow core balconies'.

Hollow Core Balcony 

Two long cut openings in damaged hollow core balcony.

Hollow Core Restoration 

Ripping up deteriorated exterior caulk joints for new caulk to be installed.

Replacing Failed Caulk 

water penetration on hollow core balconies with chipping , spalling, and cracking concrete.

 Water penetrating balconies 

 exterior failed caulk joint ripped and missing by outdoor balcony.

Missing caulk on balcony 

  Exterior overhead failed caulk joint.

Failed caulk joints

The grey area in the construction, everyone is so quick to build but who's going to maintain the longevity when the building is done?
How preventative maintenance turns large scale repairs when deferred. 

Precast Patching on boom lift

Could 20 Years of Deferred Maintenance
Mean Substantial Repairs

With the shift in extreme weather events, dated infrastructure, and methods.  Improved engineering over the last few decades can detect areas for preventative maintenance and address deferred repairs. Read more about the warning signs in our newsletter below. 

It happens to often where water penetration on buildings, balconies, walkways, and  foundations go dismissed or overlooked. When we encounter engineered repairs or aesthetic renovations from deferred maintenance.

 

The original issue could of been as small as replacing a bad caulk joint, patching, grouting, or sealing an opening. That's why at RHK Construction we encourage Semiannual walks of properties every spring and fall. 

 

Catch the preventative solution before it turns into Large Scale Repairs.

Learn our pro tips in the article above.

 Deferred Repairs

Precast chipping and spalling of panel from water penetration.

Exposed rebar

 Exterior Precast chipping and spalling from improper water drainage   on the corner of a precast concrete building.

Spalling corners

Exterior precast concrete chipping and spalling from improper water drainage from roof.

Spalling face front 

Exterior deferred maintenance on precast concrete building. The building has several locations of cracking and spalled precast concrete.

Water penetration issues

Modern Warehouse Exterior

219 West Galena Blvd.

Aurora IL 60506

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