Waterproofing
Waterproofing is part of Southern Coast's more than 33 years of experience. Our commitment is to quality, service, and craftsmanship in roofing and waterproofing — because on most buildings the two problems are the same problem.
[ Waterproofing Overview ]
Roofing keeps water off the top of a building. Waterproofing deals with everywhere else it tries to get in — the transitions, the joints, the flat surfaces people walk on, and the places where two different materials meet.
Southern Coast brings over 33 years of experience to roofing and waterproofing and holds multiple manufacturer certifications. Because we are not tied to any single manufacturer, an assessment starts with the building and the actual point of water entry rather than with a product we are committed to selling.
[ Water Intrusion ]
Water works its way down a building, so the damage you can see is usually below the point where it entered. These are the places it commonly finds a way through on South Florida properties.
The perimeter of a flat or low-slope roof takes the worst of wind-driven rain. Copings, edge metal, and the top of a parapet wall are all places a roof stops and something else has to take over.
Anywhere a roof meets a vertical wall is a junction between two systems. It is the single most common place a building leaks, and it sits right on the boundary between roofing and waterproofing.
Horizontal surfaces that people walk on sit directly above occupied space. When the surface stops shedding water, it shows up on the ceiling of the unit below rather than on the balcony itself.
Every opening cut into a wall is a potential path. Water that appears at the head or sill of a window has often travelled some distance inside the wall to get there.
Cracks, control and expansion joints, and porous or weathered wall surfaces let water into the structure without any obvious opening for it to have come through.
Where a structure meets the ground, water arrives under pressure rather than falling on it. Damp at the base of a wall is a different problem from a leak above, and it is diagnosed differently.
Damp with no obvious source? The entry point and the damage are usually in two different places.
Request an evaluation[ Roofing + Waterproofing ]
Plenty of leaks sit exactly on the line between roofing and waterproofing. When those are two different contractors, that line is where the argument happens and where the problem tends to stay unsolved.
The roof handles rain landing on the building and moves it to drainage. It is a system of covering, underlayment, flashing, and edge detail, and it ends at the roof perimeter.
Waterproofing deals with the surfaces and junctions the roof does not cover: horizontal areas that are walked on, vertical surfaces, and the joints between them.
Committed to providing our customers and community with the highest degree of quality, service, and craftsmanship in roofing and waterproofing.
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Both disciplines under one licensed and insured contractor, so nobody has to work out whose problem the leak is.
[ Applications ]
Water behaves the same way on a house as it does on a twelve-story building; what changes is the scale of the consequences and who needs to be kept informed while it is put right.
Damp and water intrusion on houses, townhomes, and additions — often where a flat section, a terrace, or an addition ties into the original structure.
Commercial, multi-tenant, and association properties, where water intrusion becomes a shared-asset question and often a board-level one.
[ Request an Evaluation ]
Tell us what you are seeing and where — damp on a wall, a stain on a ceiling below a balcony, or water that only appears in heavy rain. We will assess the building and set out what we found before recommending any scope of work.
Licensed & insured · Roofing & waterproofing · Over 33 years of experience
