Parking Garage Crack Repair
EPXOY INJECTION, A FULL DEPTH PERMANENT CRACK REPAIR METHOD THAT PREVENTS CORROSION, THE CAUSE OF PARKING DECK SPALLING. LINCOLN COMPANY PERFORMS PARKING GARAGE STRUCTURE REPAIRS TO STOP CRACK ELONGATION AND WATER INFILTRATION.
- PARKING STRUCTURE REPAIR
- PARKING DECK SPALLING
- PARKING GARAGE CRACK REPAIR
- PARKING GARAGE REPAIR
Lincoln Company performs parking structure repairs using epoxy injection, a permanent crack repair technique to protect steel reinforcing from corrosion, the main cause for parking deck deterioration. Corrosion occurs when water and de-icing salts from cars are allowed to enter cracks along their lengths where they intersect steel reinforcing.
Alternative crack repair methods include sealers, tapes, membranes, caulks and the list continues. Over time these materials become brittle, others curl away from surface edges due to surface creep. Ultra violet light exposure and traffic all but assure failure. The more severe the weather (hot/cold) the shorter the life expectancy is for these bridging products.
The perceived benefits of these products are due to their initial relatively low cost and rapid installation and marketed long term life spans. However, the touted benefits are not always realistic nor accurate. Crack bridging products do not stop crack elongation, nor do they stop water from entering the covered cracks through adjoining finger cracks. Vandalism, high traffic volumes, contaminants and product life expectancy failure all allow water to infiltrate the crack. Quite often these bridging products lose their bond because of the afore mentioned reasons and are unrecognized and remain in place for years until the majority of the product fail triggering recognition for repair to the detriment of the structure.
Cracks expand and contract because they are allowed to. Injection bonds the crack back together and transfers the movement back to the expansion joints as it was designed.
Corrosion, a cancer eating away at your parking structure from within exposes itself in spalling concrete at the surface and underside of the deck.
Epoxy injection provides a full depth repair, inhibits crack elongation, encapsulates steel reinforcing, installs quickly, and it is a permanent crack repair method.