In a home, very few things are maintenance free. While it is a bitter pill for most homeowners to swallow, the fact is that preventative maintenance, with all the time and money it consumes, is still far more cost effective than the crisis management approach of waiting until something breaks and then scrambling to have it repaired.
Preventative maintenance can avoid repairs, extend the life expectancy of many components and in some cases, reduce energy consumption.
Bryan’s Contracting has the experience to get the job done right, on time. With the right equipment, Bryan’s Contracting can provide the foundation repair and basement wall repair services you need, whether you have wet floors or cracked, bowing walls.
Bryan’s Contracting can custom-design the right foundation repair system for your home and family.
Water always seeks the path of least resistance. When water has found a path to your basement, it is important to address several key areas in fixing the problem. If one area is repaired and others are ignored, water will find the natural path of least resistance and thus come back. Addressing all of the issues, thoroughly, is the surest way of stopping water leakage problems permanently.
We offer protection through a number of proven solutions, each designed to stop water from entering permanently.
Parging is applying a strong form of cement to a wall and creating a smooth, flat wall. Parging is usually applied along the bottom 1 to 4 feet of a wall.
In large areas, sheets of galvanized mesh are nailed to the wall then a “scratch coat” of strong cement is applied prior to the last coat, which is smoothed with a sponge-like tool to make it flat and even. Small areas of parging do not require mesh.
Improve the appearance of your exterior walls,
Provide protection against rain and snow damage,
Conceal and protect deteriorated brickwork, avoiding replacement.
You can say a great deal in favor of cement block (or, if you prefer, concrete block) building.
It’s fairly fast, reasonably easy, particularly in small projects, and incredibly
cheap if you are willing to scrounge a little and salvage the block.
But one thing you can’t say about the traditional concrete blocks is that they are pretty.
In fact, cement blocks, unless you buy some of the decorative ones or paint the regular ones, can be, and often are, as ugly as a mud fence.
But, some of you are asking, what on earth is parging.
Or you may prefer the “pargeting” spelling. It doesn’t matter whether you pronounce it par-jay or parj.
But for those of you who do not know, parging is simply the act of mixing a batch of mortar, then applying it to a wall of some sort. In this article that wall is the foundation of a house, but you can do it for anything else you want covered.
You may also think of parging as applying a form of stucco to a wall.
In fact, stucco, by definition in the modern sense, is mixing portland
cement, lime, and water and applying it onto a wall for decorative purposes.
In another context stucco is a fine plaster used to cover a wall.
Use a gloved hand to push the sand around the screen until the fine particles
fall through the mesh and the larger particles are left on the screen.
Discard the large particles.
What we are talking about here is covering ugly cement blocks so they will
have a more aesthetically pleasing look.
Thank you for considering Bryans Contracting.
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Ottawa, Ontario
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