Case study
179 Upper Tooting Road facade refurbishment
A survey led external repair and redecoration programme to a prominent corner block in Tooting, covering masonry repairs, window remedials and a full external decoration to the front and side elevations.
- Property
- Mixed use corner block, Upper Tooting Road, London SW17
- Client
- Managing agent
- Scope
- External repairs and redecoration
- Service line
- Exterior and block works
The project
A pre works survey recorded water ingress and weathering to the Cowick Road elevation, with failed mortar joints, damaged render and rot to several window frames and heads. The report set out the affected areas so the repairs could be priced and sequenced before scaffold went up.
Full scaffold and protective netting were installed across the front and side elevations, allowing safe access above the shop fronts while the parades below stayed open and trading throughout the works.
Our team carried out the masonry and mortar repairs, made good the damaged render and detailing, and repaired or replaced timber to the window frames, heads and cills before any decoration started.
The elevations were then prepared and redecorated in a durable masonry finish, with window surrounds, fluted pilasters, cornices and arches picked out by hand. The roof dormers, including the ornate porthole dormer, were repaired, decorated and fitted with bird deterrent spikes.
With the scaffold struck, the block presents a clean, uniform white elevation to both the Upper Tooting Road and Cowick Road frontages, with the original detailing sharp again.
Scope of works
What we delivered.
- Pre works survey and photographic condition report
- Full scaffold, netting and public protection above trading units
- Raking out and repointing of failed mortar joints
- Render and masonry repairs to weather damaged areas
- Timber repairs to window frames, heads and cills
- Preparation, priming and full external redecoration
- Hand detailing to cornices, arches, pilasters and window surrounds
- Dormer repairs, decoration and bird deterrent spikes
- Scaffold strike, site clearance and handover photographs
Before and after
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Corner elevation at the junction
Cowick Road elevation
During works
Taken back to substrate before anything new went in.
Finished result
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