Gables Uptown Trail is a seven-story, luxury multi-family building that hosts 334 apartments and is located in Uptown Dallas, adjacent to The Katy Trail. The structure has a stucco façade, which had cracked over time. Chamberlin’s experience in building envelope repair and restoration led to them being selected to make exterior refurbishments on the mid-rise apartments.
This year-long project kicked off in January of 2017. To combat the wear and tear the elements had inflicted on the exterior of the building, Chamberlin performed joint sealant replacement, power washing, stucco repair, balcony cleaning and painting and installation of a waterproof coating on the entire building envelope. The result was a pristine façade that was watertight to protect the residents from water intrusion.
This building boasts unique aesthetics with five different colors on the façade, creating a color-by-numbers effect when matching the new coating to the preexisting colors. Chamberlin performed multiple mock-ups of caulking and coating samples to determine which colors would be the closest match to the original construction.
Before the coating application began, the crew tested the stucco for moisture. The hand-held reader reported if the moisture level was low, medium or high. For proper adhesion, the product could not be installed at any level greater than low. Drying time for the stucco had to be allotted after power washing or rain, and these times varied depending on temperature and sun exposure.
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