Chennai · Avadi — free site inspection
Homes leak in predictable places — the terrace, the bathroom below it, the balcony threshold, the external wall on the rain-facing side and the sump. We survey the whole building, prioritise by severity, and treat causes in the right order so you are not repainting the same ceiling next year.
Specialization
Be it — Apartment, Independent house, Villa, Row house or Housing society common area.
Systems & methods
Specifying the wrong system is the most common reason waterproofing and paintwork fails early. Here is how we choose.
Before quoting, we thermal-scan the affected areas and trace each damp patch to its actual source. Often a 'bathroom leak' is a terrace problem two floors up.
Cementitious polymer coating over the sunken slab, corner fillets, and treatment around pipe penetrations — followed by a 24 to 48 hour ponding test before tiling goes back.
Silicone-based clear or pigmented water repellent on rain-facing walls stops driving rain being absorbed through plaster, which is the cause of most internal wall dampness in Chennai.
Food-safe crystalline or cementitious systems that become part of the concrete rather than a surface film — so they cannot peel into your stored water.
Our works
Our associates
FAQ
Very often the water is not coming from the bathroom at all — it travels laterally from a terrace crack, a leaking concealed pipe or an external wall. This is exactly what the thermal survey settles before you spend money on the wrong repair.
For terrace and external work, no. For bathroom waterproofing that bathroom is out of use for a few days while the coating cures and the ponding test runs.
Yes. We handle full-building surveys for housing societies and provide the documented diagnosis report and phased quotation that committees usually need for approval.
Related
Most waterproofing fails because the contractor treated the stain, not the source. We run a thermal imaging survey first — an infrared camera reads surface temperature differences to reveal where moisture is actually travelling inside your slab or wall. You get a diagnosis report before anyone touches a chisel.
Chennai terraces fail for three reasons — dead slope that ponds water, untreated shrinkage cracks, and parapet junctions left open. We correct all three, then lay a mesh-reinforced membrane system sized to how the terrace is actually used.
An untreated Chennai terrace can reach well over 60°C in summer, and that heat radiates straight into the rooms below. A solar-reflective cool roof coating reflects most of that radiation instead of absorbing it — and the better systems waterproof at the same time.
What homeowners and businesses across Chennai say about Om Engineering Services — unedited, from our Google Business Profile.
4.9 out of 5
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