Waterproofing in South Yarra
Close to seventy per cent of South Yarra is apartments, so almost every leak here is someone else’s ceiling and almost every repair is an owners corporation decision. We have done a lot of both.
The South Yarra buildings we get called to
Recent apartment towers
Balcony membranes and podium decks at the age where the first defects surface - falls that do not drain, thresholds that let water track back inside, and planters sitting over occupied space.
Brick and concrete walk-ups
Balconies re-tiled once already, with the new tiles laid straight over the old failed membrane. It buys a few years and then leaks worse, because now there is water trapped between two layers.
Flats on the old mansion grounds
Original wet areas and original parapets, with rendered brickwork that has been painted rather than repaired for eighty years.
Why South Yarra is built the way it is
South Yarra has roughly a century of apartment building stacked into one suburb - flats on old subdivided mansion grounds, post-war and 1970s blocks, and the towers built on the old factory land beside the station since 2008. The failures arrive on a schedule, and which generation your building belongs to decides what we are looking for.
What we do in South Yarra
All of it, everywhere we work. These are the ones South Yarra calls us about most.
Permits, if it ever comes to that
South Yarra is the one that catches people out: Punt Road is the boundary, so east of it you are in Stonnington and west of it you are in the City of Melbourne. Most jobs need nothing from either. When one does, we work out which applies and handle it.