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One Life Hartlepool (NHS)
One Life Hartlepool is a three-storey NHS community hospital covering the Hartlepool area of Teesside, providing a number of community services including speech and language therapy, audiology, podiatry, musculoskeletal and diabetes services.
Our established client, FES asked us to carry out render repairs and external redecoration of Sto rendered surfaces on external areas of the One Life building. All work had to be carried out on an out-of-hours basis due to the hospital remaining in full use throughout the duration of works, which was coordinated to accommodate the day-to-day activities with the client and to therefore keep disruption to an absolute minimum.
The existing render was low pressure washed (‘soft washed’) involving spraying a StoPrim Fungal fungicidal treatment, leaving for approx. 20 minutes and washing off with a low pressured lance so as not to damage the render. Water pressure did not exceed 30 bar with water temperature not exceeding 30 degrees, with the nozzle no closer than 500mm to the surface. Minor render repairs were then carried out followed by the application of 2no coats of StoColor Jumbosil silicone resin paint, applied by brush and roller.
Access was achieved via various specialist MEWPs, fixed scaffolding, alloy mobile towers, ladders and steps with the application executed by our own in-house and local operatives, being fully certified to deliver via PASMA and IPAF accreditations.
This was a particularly sensitive project as we had to be mindful of the building’s health related activities, with the added challenge of delivering works during the Covid-19 pandemic. Building occupiers and members of the public were therefore considered when carrying out the work within our site-specific risk assessment and method statement, even though working out-of-hours mitigated many issues.
Our established client, FES asked us to carry out render repairs and external redecoration of Sto rendered surfaces on external areas of the One Life building. All work had to be carried out on an out-of-hours basis due to the hospital remaining in full use throughout the duration of works, which was coordinated to accommodate the day-to-day activities with the client and to therefore keep disruption to an absolute minimum.
The existing render was low pressure washed (‘soft washed’) involving spraying a StoPrim Fungal fungicidal treatment, leaving for approx. 20 minutes and washing off with a low pressured lance so as not to damage the render. Water pressure did not exceed 30 bar with water temperature not exceeding 30 degrees, with the nozzle no closer than 500mm to the surface. Minor render repairs were then carried out followed by the application of 2no coats of StoColor Jumbosil silicone resin paint, applied by brush and roller.
Access was achieved via various specialist MEWPs, fixed scaffolding, alloy mobile towers, ladders and steps with the application executed by our own in-house and local operatives, being fully certified to deliver via PASMA and IPAF accreditations.
This was a particularly sensitive project as we had to be mindful of the building’s health related activities, with the added challenge of delivering works during the Covid-19 pandemic. Building occupiers and members of the public were therefore considered when carrying out the work within our site-specific risk assessment and method statement, even though working out-of-hours mitigated many issues.