Balconies and Roof Gardens
This sedum green roof was created especially for the Sri Lankan High Commission in St Johns Wood in London, and was designed to be both environmentally responsible and aesthetically pleasing for many years to come.
The high standard living sedum roof was fitted over the top of a 25 year gamma liquid membrane flat roofing system, ensuring the roof will remain strong, waterproof, weatherproof and beautiful.
Find out how we…
The tiled balcony walkways at this hotel in Pitlochry, Scotland, were leaking badly. Despite good workmanship, there was a lack of suitable materials beneath the tiles themselves, resulting in real problems for the hotel owners.
The picture gallery above shows not only the initial leaking but the stage-by-stage refurbishment of the entire balcony (all the way round).
The existing tiles were in too poor a condition to be reused (…
Waltham Forest Council in Greater London wanted a new bowling pavilion with a warm roof build up and seeded turf roof (or Green Roof) for the park in Forest Road, Walthamstow.
One of the main challenges with turf roofing is ensuring what is underneath provides adequate waterproofing.
Working alongside the innovative contractor Jerram Falkus, we used the pioneering liquid polymer roofing technology to ensure the best possible…
The Ceredigion County Council offices in Aberaeron, near Aberystwyth in West Wales were sheltering under a quickly perishing flat roof. The roof itself was of a substantial size, and was made from high grade mineral felt which, overall, was in excellent condition and exhibited good workmanship. It was, however, leaking water in several places.
We kept the existing mineral felt roof, overcoating with the liquid polymer system, sealing…
The owners of this rooftop in Camden, London needed a total roof refurbishment to transform the 20m2 area into a balcony roof terrace that they could enjoy using.
We fitted taper insulation, giving quick simple drainage without affecting where tables and chairs could go, and covered the area using tongue-and-groove ply decking prior to waterproofing the roof terrace.
The specialist balcony roofing coat was mixed with hard…
This balcony in Helensburgh in Dunbartonshire, Scotland was completed in September 2010. The concrete deck was applied with a specialist self-levelling compound, before application of the primer.
In all, two coats of waterproofing membrane were applied, to give a jointless, seamless, fully waterproof and weatherproof system ( a must in Scotland!)
We used a specialist balcony flooring resin to lay the forest green quartz the…
