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To Seal or Not to Seal: A Practical Study of Masonry Surface Treatments
An 80-year-old school building in Brooklyn, New York, with pervasive water leakage and deteriorating brick exterior walls was a potential candidate for a treatment to stabilize and seal the surface. The building continued to experience extensive water leakage despite the recent installation of a new roof and flashing repairs. An investigation was conducted to evaluate the cause of the leakage and to evaluate the potential effectiveness of four prospective surface treatments to seal or consolidate the brick. Each of the four products tested was a commercially available proprietary product specifically marketed for use on brick masonry. This paper presents the findings of our field and laboratory studies, which identified critical defects in the extensive recent repair work, and indicated that surface treatment of the brick masonry was inadvisable.
To Seal or Not to Seal: A Practical Study of Masonry Surface Treatments
An 80-year-old school building in Brooklyn, New York, with pervasive water leakage and deteriorating brick exterior walls was a potential candidate for a treatment to stabilize and seal the surface. The building continued to experience extensive water leakage despite the recent installation of a new roof and flashing repairs. An investigation was conducted to evaluate the cause of the leakage and to evaluate the potential effectiveness of four prospective surface treatments to seal or consolidate the brick. Each of the four products tested was a commercially available proprietary product specifically marketed for use on brick masonry. This paper presents the findings of our field and laboratory studies, which identified critical defects in the extensive recent repair work, and indicated that surface treatment of the brick masonry was inadvisable.
To Seal or Not to Seal: A Practical Study of Masonry Surface Treatments
Drerup, Michael J. (author) / Díaz de León, Alicia E. (author)
Fifth Forensic Engineering Congress ; 2009 ; Washington, D.C., United States
Forensic Engineering 2009 ; 96-104
2009-11-02
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
To Seal or Not to Seal: A Practical Study of Masonry Surface Treatments
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