School Awards Top Marks for Elastaseal

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Towerbank Primary School is a beautiful stone building located beside the scenic Portobello Beach in the East of Edinburgh. This historic landmark was founded in 1883 and remains a true icon of the City’s heritage and architecture.

The 18th century building not only provides classroom accommodation for all pupils, but also houses a state of the art ICT Suite, Library and Gymnasium.

The existing flat asphalt roof to the rear of the building was badly degraded following prolonged exposure to the weather. The cracked membrane was allowing ponded rainwater to enter the building, which was leaking through the classroom ceilings causing a major health and safety issue.

Tor Coatings provided a free site survey and specified the Elastaseal™ 20 system, a proven long-term solution to the refurbishment of failed flat roofs. This system was specified based on product quality, availability of latent defects insurance and performance features such as the seamless waterproof protection that is guaranteed to keep the roof watertight for a minimum of 20 years. The Elastaseal™ coating system was applied to the school‘s 500m² roof by Tor Coatings’ trained professional contractors

Elastaseal™ is a cold liquid-applied waterproof coating system that is applied directly over the original roof membrane to ensure it remains leak-free for up to 25 years, depending on the level of specification.

Elastaseal™ works by seamlessly encapsulating the existing roof substrate, creating a new membrane that is not only 100% waterproof but also allows the roof beneath to ‘breathe’ due to its vapour permeability.

Installation could be carried out with the building occupied due to the cold nature of the product. More conventional repairs such as hot works would have been necessary to repair the asphalt roof, posing a potential fire risk. As Elastaseal™ is a cold liquid product there are no such risks associated.

This project has now been completed using the Elastaseal™ system and Tor Coatings received top marks from the school for making their leaking roofs a thing of the past.

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Tor Coatings Aquires Bollom Fire Protection

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Tor Coatings Ltd has acquired the Bollom Fire Protection brand and assets from the receiver.

Tor Coatings is a recognised expert in the field of passive fire protection; having been involved in flame retardant coatings technology since its conceptual stage in the early 1970s. Bollom Fire Protection is well known for its range of intumescent and flame retardant base coats, paints and clear varnishes and is an excellent addition to the Tor portfolio.

All Bollom fire protection products will now be manufactured by Tor Coatings to the original, tested and certified formulations.

The Bollom fire protection range can now be ordered with our established merchant brands including Blackfriar, Solignum, Ardenbrite and Crusader.

For the latest product availability information and new account queries please contact customer services on 0191 410 6611.

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School Awards Top Marks for Elastaseal

Tor Coatings Aquires Bollom Fire Protection