Ceredigion

This unusual project provides both a usable basement and a ground floor walkway for a large new-build property in Tregaron, near Lampeter in West Wales (SY25, Ceredigion) - using the cellar roof as the walkway.

Basement tanking or cellar tanking refers to the use of waterproof barriers either inside or outside (in this case inside and over the roof area) to make the basement or cellar dry and habitable. It's one type (among many) of…

This concrete and mastic asphalt roof refurbushment in SY23 (Aberystwyth, West Wales) started out as a real patchwork of problems!

As the photos show, there were different roof materials in use, and moss and other vegetation in abundance over a relatively large area.

First, we pressure-cleaned the roof thoroughly - removing all debris that might hinder installation - before coating the whole area in a primer and undercoat that's…

There's an idea we come across surprisingly often that GRP roofs cannot be refurbished - that it all has to be torn out and started again from scratch. We can tell you right now that this isn't true.

This GRP roof in Cardigan (Aberteifi), West Wales, was holding water, creating pooling that over time would seriously undermine the safety and structure of the roof. However, we were able to fully refurbish it, without ripping out the…

Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, West Wales (a Hywel Dda NHS hospital), had some unique needs for remedial overlay refurbishment work. Despite previous repairs by another company, the roof was leaking in numerous places, with the asphalt upper area of the main roof in especially poor condition. Its solar-reflective coating had worn away completely, exposing the felt, which had cracked and blistered in the elements. The felt…

A job in a million! This art deco concrete structure property situated yards from the beach & sand dunes at Ynyslas just north of Borth and Aberystwyth, needed some tricky waterproofing work over the entire flat roof.

Set at the end of the Borth Golf Links, the roof comprises a 120m2 warm room terrace finished in Forest Green decorative quartz. Frameless glass fitted to the internal sides of the parapet walls and a couple of…

Soaking insulation boards were a major problem not quoted for (not known about) in the overlay specification from this NHS Hwyel Dda Health Trust hospital. Replacing this full-tapered insulation system would have cost almost 15k, and the hospital had no other budget left to allocate - which could have scuppered the whole project.

A solution to help our NHS keep extremely important rooms in use was needed... and we found one.

We…