Specialty Work:
Nuevo Leon
Soon after the owners of the Nuevo Leon restaurant, located on East 6th Street in Austin, moved into their new location, they noticed that the base of the wall separating the dishwashing area from the server access area was not water tight. Due to the owners insistence on cleanliness, the back area was virtually flooded each evening during a thorough cleaning process. This process caused a migration of water into the wall cavity and into the adjacent space. Any solution to this problem could only be implemented one day a week when the restaurant was closed.
Using a recommendation from LOC Engineering, we neatly cut the bottom 4 inches of FRP and "greenrock" from the wall, applied a chlorine based disinfectant inside the wall cavity, filled the base of the cavity with a water proof grout, replaced the "greenrock" with "cement board" which was seated in the waterproof grout. The surface of the "cement board" was then plastered with a vertical waterproof material.
The result was a waterproof, durable surface, that was completed with no down time for the restaurant, at a cost of less than $2,000.00.
Some progress photos are shown below.
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