Services – Façade upgrades and Restorations

Signs that your building may be making you sick

By |2019-08-12T13:09:40+00:00August 12th, 2019|News, Services - Façade upgrades and Restorations, Services - Remedial waterproofing and damp proofing|

Could invisible mould be the cause of your health issues? Persistent fatigue, frequently running or blocked nose, eye irritation, asthma, sinusitis, body aches and brain fog are some symptoms of toxic mould illness. Mould is the result of persistent damp in buildings. Mould grows when fungal spores land on areas inside a building that has

We Fix Broken Buildings

By |2019-06-12T11:24:08+00:00April 3rd, 2019|News, Services - Façade upgrades and Restorations|

“We fix broken buildings” is a simplistic refrain heard from some of us at Everest Contracting when asked what we do as remedial builders in Sydney, Australia. “Oh, like the Opal!” is now a common response. The Opal Tower in Homebush, of recent renown for its serious concrete cracking and building failures only two years

Is Your Building Cladding Fireproof?

By |2020-07-22T12:26:13+00:00December 19th, 2018|News, Services - Façade upgrades and Restorations|

As we anticipated in a previous news article, the effects of the Grenfell Fire outbreak in London in June 2017 are now being felt in Australia. The Grenfell Fire highlighted issues with flammable cladding that had commonly been used as a skin or layer to provide a degree of thermal insulation and weather resistance, and

London apartments fire – are there issues for Australia?

By |2018-12-19T14:16:27+00:00October 6th, 2017|News, Services - Façade upgrades and Restorations|

The fire at the Grenfell Tower in London has naturally led to speculation about the causal factors and the potential for it to happen in Australia. The Grenfell Tower fire occurred on 14 June 2017 at the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London. It caused an estimated 80 deaths and over 70 injuries. Police and fire services