Balcony Concrete Restoration and New Guards for Orchard Apartments in Brampton
- Established in 2013
- Fifteen recent projects
Balcony Restoration, Brampton: the facts
- Client
- Orchard Apartments
- Building
- Seven-storey apartment building
- City
- Brampton
- Work
- Balcony concrete restoration, waterproof coating and new guards
- Completed
- 2025
The work
Our crews broke the failed concrete of the balcony slabs back to sound reinforcing steel, top and underside, installed epoxy-coated reinforcement, and re-formed and re-poured the slab edges.
Once the concrete was repaired, the balcony decks were finished with a waterproof coating, and each coat was checked with a wet-film thickness gauge.
The old railings and lattice panels came off, and the balconies got new white panel guards. The slab undersides were parged.
How the job ran
Residents stayed in the building throughout. The work moved through the building in phases, the upper floors were reached from boom lifts, and the job was finished within one construction season.
How concrete and coating work runs
The consulting engineer marks the repair areas on site and inspects the reinforcing before pours; temporary shoring goes in when a structural removal needs it.
Before a coating or membrane goes down, the concrete is repaired first, the surface is prepared (shot blasting or grinding) to the specification, moisture and weather are checked against the manufacturer's data sheet, and the engineer inspects where the specification calls for it.
Before and after
01The slab undersides
A slab underside with spalled, flaking patches Slab undersides with fresh repair mortar at their edges
Photographs
Spalled slab edges and rust-stained railings before the work The balconies before the work The old railings before the work An old railing before the work The building's balconies from the street The building across its parking lot Slab edges broken back to the reinforcing steel A slab edge with the failed concrete broken out Slab edges broken back along a stack of balconies A soffit repair area broken out Epoxy-coated reinforcing bars along a slab edge Epoxy-coated reinforcement along a slab edge, from above Reinforcement fixed along a slab edge New reinforcement at a broken-out slab edge Slab edges formed for pouring, floor by floor Formwork along a slab edge Forms around a slab edge Patch repairs on a balcony deck Repair patches on a deck before the coating Parging on a slab underside Repair mortar on a slab underside A balcony deck prepared for its coating A wet-film thickness gauge on a freshly applied coating The joint between the deck and the wall A balcony deck with its fresh waterproof coating A coated deck, with scaffolding at the edge The finished waterproof coating on a balcony A coated balcony on an upper floor, a boom lift below A finished balcony deck New white guards on the balconies A stack of finished balconies The building after the balcony work The front of the building after the work The building from the street The entrance front after the work
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Services: Waterproofing, Balcony restoration, Concrete restoration