Concrete Cancer & Spalling Repair in the Eastern Suburbs
The Eastern Suburbs job is a 1960s or 1970s walk-up with concrete balconies, close enough to the ocean that the salt does the work. Bondi, Coogee and Maroubra share the stock and the exposure; what varies is how much room there is to stand access equipment.
Concrete Cancer & Spalling Repair around the Eastern Suburbs
The affected stock through Bondi, Coogee and Maroubra is overwhelmingly three- and four-storey liver-brick and blond-brick walk-ups from the 1960s and 1970s, with cantilevered concrete balconies and painted soffits. On these buildings the first sign is usually at the slab edge on the elevation facing the water — a crack along the drip line, then rust colour running down the face beneath it.
Access is the local constraint that shows up in the price. The streets running down toward the beaches are steep and narrow, kerbside room is contested, and standing scaffold in front of a building on one of them is a different proposition from doing it on a wide flat street. It is worth raising when a scope is being written, because it is the part of the quote most likely to surprise an owners corporation.
Permits and your local council rules
Concrete repair to an existing building is generally maintenance rather than development, so a development application is not usually the question. What does apply on a Class 2 building — most of the walk-ups in this area — is the NSW Design and Building Practitioners scheme, which requires the remedial work to be designed by a registered design practitioner and lodged on the NSW Planning Portal before it proceeds. Where scaffold or a hoarding needs to stand on the footpath or the road, that is a separate council approval and it is worth confirming early on these streets.
Source: NSW Government guidance on remedial building work in regulated buildings — confirm current requirements with your local council.
Our the Eastern Suburbs service area
We cover Bondi, Coogee, Maroubra and the surrounding Eastern Suburbs.
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