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Waterproofing Key to success

A senior and well-experienced Architect once remarked to me that he does not believe the concept of waterproofing. Perhaps he is right in the scenario today as people believe in the advertisement claims and unverified propaganda coupled with apparently cheap solutions which do not have the right ingredients to protect the structures from the assaults of nature. The ones protected with the rightly engineered systems and products and applied by trained professionals survive.

Durability and hassle free maintenance are determined by technical evaluation and costs can be certainly justified on performance parameters.

Waterproofing solutions: Waterproofing products are made of hot mop asphalts, cold process methods, elastomeric and polymers. While studying 1000 Hot Mop roofs, the American Institute of Architects found that 1/3 were in trouble within a year of completion and 20 to 30 % fail within five years.

SWEPCO an American Co of nearly 8 decades repute present in 80 countries across all six continents has a broad line of protective coatings and maintenance products for a wide variety of industrial and commercial surfaces, concrete, asphalt, pavement, masonry, metal and all classes of roofing It is worth understanding their approach to the basics in providing well-engineered solutions.

Ingredients make the difference: Heart of Texas Asphalt which at one time was obtained from the asphalt of famous Talco Fields in Texas and now exhausted is not created until as many as 21 narrow quality control standards and tests have been met. HTA maintains its flexibility and bondability enhancing the performance of SWEPCO's product line. The High strength micro fibers provide better strength and reinforcement. Dia-seal, a unique mineral substance composed of fossilized skeletal remains of diatoms which have the porosity of individual skeletons, their microscopic size, their wide variety of shapes and chemical inertness make an ideal stabilizer and reinforcer.

Blue-black slate, which has hard particles, opaque and uniform in size help block the U.V. light from the Sun.

Zonamine, a remarkable chemical additive breaks down the surface tension of roofing products and promotes wetting of old roof surface.

The result is proper penetration and thorough bonding of the new material to the old. ZHD-7 is a special chemical additive and a powerful oxidation inhibitor, which retards the aging process of asphalt.

Well blended ingredients as above enhances the durability of product. Quality does not just happen. It is result of concerted and consistent effort at every aspect of manufacturing, packaging and sale support. The total Quality System of SWEPCO ensures production of world's finest maintenance products which have passed rigorous performance testing by the world's most strict testing agencies like, Underwriters Laboratories, Factory Mutual, FMPA, Otto-Graf Institute, Germany.

Swepco is earliest to perfect the cold asphalt technology. It is the only company in the field with a functional distributor training school. The distributor have the benefits of honing the skills through continuous education. When you choose a SWEPCO solution, you don't choose a product; you choose an entire team of professionals.

A.V.Ramamoorthy

SWEPCO India Distributor

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