The Top 6 Ways to Repair Concrete in Auckland

Due to its strong, durable properties, Concrete is used extensively across Auckland in many different building and infrastructure applications. Concrete repair is essential for maintaining the structural integrity and aesthetics of both residential and commercial buildings.

Recognising the types and causes of concrete deterioration and assessing the extent of damage is crucial for effective repair and maintenance. Auckland's Concrete Solutions provides expertise in addressing common issues such as cracking, water ingress, and seismic strengthening. Their services are designed to tackle problems quickly and efficiently, ensuring long-lasting results. 

Assessing the extent of concrete damage

As a whole, concrete repair involves a condition evaluation to assess the current condition of the concrete structure, a determination of the causes of deterioration or distress, and selection ofrepair methods and materials.  

Damage to concrete can arise for a number of reasons, each impacting the integrity and longevity of the structure. Even with maintenance, different defects in concrete structures across Auckland are routinely observed.

Visual inspection by our Auckland based concrete repair experts, helps identify issues like cracking, crazing, delamination, dusting, efflorescence, water ingress and spalling.

Effective assessment is critical for planning adequate repair methods to restore and strengthen the concrete, ensuring its longevity and safety. Some of these methods are noted below.

Crack injection

Concrete Solutions use a variety of crack injection processes and products to seal concrete cracks through the full depth of the structure to increase its structural integrity. Low pressure injection methods are also used for concrete slabs to ensure your asset is sealed and meets MFAT regulations.Whether it be cracking or control joints we use low viscosity resins to seal the structure.

Water stop injection

Across Auckland and New Zealand, water stop injection has been used to keep the water on the outside of your concrete walls, ceilings and basements. Internal surface applied membranes do not protect the structural integrity of your concrete asset. We use injection methods to seal cracks and joints through the full depth of any floor, wall or ceiling to keep the water on the outside.

Gel membrane injection

If a more wide scale solution is required, we can inject anew acrylic Gel membrane to the exterior side of a basement wall, perfect for situations where below ground membranes have failed and you are unable to dig to the troubled area.

Concrete spall repair

Where spalling occurs, Concrete Solutions highly trained staff can complete concrete repairs by removing the spalled concrete, cleaning the substrate and steel, then installing high quality repair mortars to increase the longevity of your asset.

FRP strengthening

For your concrete assets that require seismic retrofit, structural upgrades due to change of use or construction errors, historic preservation or rehabilitation of corroded or distressed members, Concrete Solutions uses the Fyfe Tyfo Fibrwrap system. This comprises of carbon or glass fibre reinforced polymers (FRP). Our design team can provide free design assistance to determine the bespoke needs of your structure, get in touch with our team today.

Coatings

To increase the longevity of your concrete assets, Concrete Solutions works with and installs a number of suppliers products. By removing existing failed coatings and applying new premier products, we can increase the lifespan of your concrete structure and avoid costly repairs.  

Correct material selection not only enhances the repair's longevity but also minimises future maintenance costs. Consulting with experts, like those at Concrete Solutions in Auckland, ensures the best material choice for each unique situation.