Monday, November 11, 2013

Protect Surfaces In Your Building With Help Of A Masonry Sealing Auburn Contractor

By Katrina Wheeler


The concretes, bricks, and natural stones used in construction and masonry work are porous meaning that they allow moisture to penetrate and migrate through the surfaces. However, you can prevent the damages caused by moisture by consulting masonry sealing Auburn contractors to apply sealers on the surfaces. Masonry surfaces such as pavements, walls, foundations, floors, and chimney are designed of mainly porous materials.

Water damages issues are common in homes and commercial premises because moisture tends to penetrate surfaces. Different materials have varying degrees of permeability. Nonetheless, despite the degree of permeability, when moisture enters the materials, it causes damages, reduces the lifespan, and causes growth of molds.

Brick pavers may appear dirty, grimy or smudged with oil and grease stains due to long exposure to moisture. Proper waterproofing of the porous surfaces with use of durable waterproofers can help in extending the life expectancy of these surfaces and keep them looking good for longer. Concretes are used in building walls for buildings, swimming pool facilities, and laying down paving surfaces.

Moreover, the moisture may spread from concretes and reach wooden floors leading to warping and swelling of your wooded floors. There are different sealers for masonry surfaces and the contractors can determine the right sealant products to use depending on the material used in the construction of surfaces. For concretes, sealer may be water based or solvent based with generic formulae for different surfaces.

When moisture enters basements and crawlspaces, it causes other problems including growth of molds and damage of organic materials and surfaces like wooden floors and cardboards. Clothes in your home may also be damaged through decaying. Molds help in the decay process, something that leads to rotting of surfaces. Molds also cause allergic reactions to people when they disperse toxic spores into the air.

The leaking water from gutters increases the chances of moisture penetrating to the interior of the building. Chimneys designed of concretes and brickworks also suffer from water and moisture problem. Water may enter the interior of the flue through uncapped chimneystacks resulting to deterioration of the smoke extraction structures.

That water eventually seeps down and enters the basement areas or the crawlspace. Wet weather ingression may lead to leaking of roofing structures that have deteriorated with time. When water enters the concretes, it causes damages like spalling or spitting, something that leads to separation of chunks of concrete from the building structure. In wooden floors, moisture migrating from concretes leads to problems such as warping and swelling.

Other masonry structures, which are affected by moisture, include chimneys and flues. The moisture entering the chimneys through uncapped chimneystack or faulty caps causes damage on the bricks and concretes surfaces used in designing those structures. The water may react with the gases and substance deposited on the walls of flues including soot and creosote leading to formation of acidic compounds. With the services of masonry sealing Auburn contractors, you can protect your buildings, chimneys, and pavements surfaces.




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