Concrete cancer in Mount Gravatt, Queensland

Concrete Cancer Brisbane inspects and repairs concrete in Mount Gravatt, where the typical buildings are walk-up units, retail car parks, and the written scope comes before any repair price.

The Mount Gravatt pattern

Mount Gravatt is inland, so carbonation is the more likely cause than salt, but its retail and multi-level car parking bring water carried in on vehicles and ponding back into the picture. Open-deck car parks combine the two: exposed to weather like a balcony, wetted by vehicles like a basement, and can have long spans and thin toppings. Where a body corporate or centre manager has a deck of this type, it is the element to inspect first.

Mount Gravatt site facts

What the Mount Gravatt figures mean for the concrete

Mount Gravatt has the highest height range on this site, 65 to 136 m within 250 m of the centre. The bay is 14.2 km away and the Brisbane River 6.5 km, so airborne salt is unlikely to be the main factor in its concrete. Water can be, as the detail above says: on an open-deck car park, water that ponds on a thin topping keeps the concrete wet, and that speeds corrosion once carbonation reaches the steel. A scope for a deck should map ponding after rain and check cover where the water sits.

Where to read more

Prices are on the cost page and the measuring method is on the about page. Nearest suburbs with a page here: Coorparoo (about 5 km), Woolloongabba (about 7 km), Kangaroo Point (about 8 km), New Farm (about 8 km).