Sheet covering to prevent water leakage in the concrete rioof slabs - Cochin contractors

In this post,  I intent to describe the  methods used for preventing leakage of water through roof slab. It is a great problem faced by many house owners who have constructed concrete houses with roof slabs. After a few years these slabs start leaking and  the house owners find it as a big problem affecting their peace of mind. Some of them try to use different types of cement and other chemical compounds in liquid form and apply it on the leaking surface. Others use some sort of plastic sheet which is affixed above the slab in the leaking area. All these efforts produce some kind of relief for some days and after that period the situation  becomes worse. Due to continuous leaking the iron rods inside the concrete get wet and they start corroding. Then it becomes impossible to prevent leakage, if water is allowed to fall on them.

The only real solution applicable to this problem is to cover the leaking area with another covering  roof so that rain water does not fall on the concrete slab. With G.I pipes a truss work is made above the concrete slab and G.I sheet or Aluminum sheets are paved over them which acts as a roof over the roof.
Though this is very costly, it has the additional benefit of reducing the severe heat that is felt inside the house due to the direct heating of the roof slab in summer season. Almost 60 % of the concrete houses with flat roof slabs are now already protected by these roofs. When hot season arrives the people who have concrete houses with flat roof rush to workshop people for getting their roof covered with false roofs as stated above. But they really have a tough time as  the workshop people who are doing this work are very rough people and at this busy season they go on accepting jobs one after another and this makes the house owners wait for a long time and they get irritated.

But Cochin Contractors who are having some good workshop people under their control, are undertaking this work at a reasonable rate and get the work completed within 7 days of accepting the work. If we can complete the work within the above said period, then only we will accept the contract.

Sri Janson, Kurisinkal is one of our best workshop owners whose picture is published here. We undertake to do the work at a rate of  100/-  per square feet for plain work  where there is four side slanting and top corners of the roof are in  the traditional Kerala style. For covering the roof with galvanized iron sheets we charge Rs 140/- per square feet.  This rate is applicable only for the work he gets from this page subject to the condition that there should be a minimum of 1000 square feet and the site is located within the geographical area covered by postal pin code numbers Kochi 1 to 8. For distant places reasonable  extra rate will be charged based on the distance involved ed and considering other relevant aspects. Anybody who wants to know more please contact in phone no: 9605933311.