The first problems that we're having were they had a lot of water leaks
down into the garage, a lot of concrete deterioration. Literally the underside of
the entire roof was sheathed in plastic to try to stop water from landing on any
cars. The project at the moment is removing all the concrete, putting all
new epoxy-coated rebar and all new high strength concrete and Tremco's PUMA
waterproofing system and then we'll put four inches of asphalt, new sidewalks.
They were asking for a membrane that was able to waterproof the concrete and they
were looking for a membrane that were was able to take asphalt on top of it. Not a
lot of systems can handle that. The Puma system came in and basically saved us.
So Puma is an acronym it stands for polyurethane methylmethacrylate. What
makes it different than regular urethane coatings is that it is a low VOC, rapid
curing product. The system's base coat is able to expand up to four hundred
percent and that is important in a case where there's a lot of movement on the
substrate which we have here. You don't have to worry about installing
reinforcing, it's a lot easier for the applicator to install and you're left
with a system that has superior elongation in all service conditions.
Because the PUMA system cures so quickly, we're able to accelerate the
schedules, making a convenient for the owner and everybody involved. So on this
particular deck we had a broom finish when we arrived at the jobsite. A broom
finish is not acceptable whenever we're installing a vehicular system or
something that's going to get a vehicular wearing surface because of the
sheer forces involved, so the shot blaster on this project was able to come
through, knock off the weak layer of concrete on the top where it's been
finished to expose sound strong concrete for our system to adhere to. For PUMA, we
require a concrete surface profile of two to four that's per international
concrete restoration Institute guidelines. Once that's accomplished and
we did accomplish that, we're able to put the PUMA primer at 17 mils
with some aggregate. After that we were able to put the base coat at 80 mils
no aggregate and on top of that we'll put the top coat with heavy duty
aggregate, so that the asphalt that's gonna be installed on top can
bond to the top coat of the TremProof PUMA system
In addition to the system we were able to provide a polyurethane sealant
our Dymonic 100. So we were able to detail all the cracks along the wall at a 45-degree angle so on the up turns the
membrane, the TremProof Puma is able to rest on it without being compromised
In addition to that there's about 8,000 square feet underneath of us on the
other side of the building, it's a parking area and we're going to use the
EWS Puma vehicular system.
We are available by phone we can also come out to your job site whether it's helping to startup a job and train a crew on how to
use a new product, to advise on staging or just to be there as a resource for
any questions they might have. We have that capability. So our technical
department was able to supply us with detail drawings customizable to the
project itself and we're able to make it easier for them to use the system
without having any doubt. And also just know that our sales reps, our regional
technical reps, as well as our corporate tech application specialists are
available if there's ever any questions before during or after the job