482 Broome St - Facade Restoration

by Bulado Construction

We recently completed the job at 482 Broome Street. The project took a couple of months and included the following:

  • Brick and stone cleaning (removal of paint from brick and stone)
  • Stone ledge and windowsills repairs and pointing
  • Brick and stone pointing
  • Cast iron repairs 
  • Sheet metal cornice and pillar repairs
  • Prime and paint all windows and doors (1st floor)
  • Sand stone repairs and patching
  • Brick replacement
  • Window restoration
  • Fire escape repairs and painting

Here are some pictures from the completed project.

For before pictures, click here

708 Greenwich Street

by Bulado Construction

708 Greenwich St – Exterior Restoration Project

Our team here at Bulado General Contractors recently started working on the exterior restorations at 708 Greenwich Street in New York City. We are only in the first month of work at this project, but we have already mobilized and set up everything necessarily to properly perform the masonry restorations on the building. Some of the work to be completed on the building in the coming months includes:

·         Repair with Cathedral Stone patching mortar according to manufacturers procedures (areas at walls C floors 2-4 watertables, sills & window surrounds)

·         Repair masonry defects by cutting out brick units

·         Saw cut brick masonry mortar joints

·         Repair spalled and/or cracked stone lintels and sills

·         Replace in-kind stone sill

·         Hammer test all steel pintels

·         Repair concrete steps

·         Replace rusted lintels

·         Repair hole in sheet metal

·         Repair masonry defects at West façade

·         Remove bitumen coating and repoint brick masonry

·         Repoint vertical joint

·         Remove existing window sealant at all windows and reseal all window frames

·         Seal around opening of A/C units

·         Scrape, prime and paint all steel lintels and steel pintels

56 Thomas Street – Masonry & Parapet Repairs

by Bulado Construction

56 Thomas Street – Masonry & Parapet Repairs

We recently completed our masonry and parapet repairs project at 56 Thomas St, New York, NY. The project initially started in September 2014, when the building was mobilized and set up for further work, which consisted of:

·         Pointing and powerwashing all masonry on the North façade

·         Siloxane/aquathane waterproofing of the North façade

·         Re-painting of the North façade cornice

·         Scraping and painting of all five (5) French balconies

·         Sill repairs of sheet metal coping/covers on 2nd, 3rd, & 4th floors

·         Repainting of the North façade

·         Repainting of diamond plate ramp at building entrance

·         Structural expansion joint replacement

·         Painting of bulkhead cladding

·         Roof deck repairs & furnishing/installation of a 20-year Siplast roof system

Overall the project at 56 Thomas Street has been very successful. Despite the harsh winter, the repairs were completed in a timely fashion. Below please see pictures of some of the final work at the North façade of 56 Thomas Street.