Repair & Restoration
Patching mortars, bonding agents, epoxy injection and anchoring grouts — and when a patch is the wrong answer.
How to choose within repair & restoration
Repair starts with diagnosis, not product selection. A patch applied over an unresolved cause fails again, usually faster than the original. Spalling from corroding reinforcement will keep spalling until the steel is treated. Cracking from a settling subgrade will reopen through anything you put in it.
Once the cause is addressed, the material follows the geometry. Horizontal patching mortars flow and self-level. Vertical and overhead repair mortars are formulated not to sag, which is a different rheology entirely. Structural repair mortars carry load and are specified by strength. Epoxy injection bonds a crack structurally rather than filling it cosmetically, and is for cracks that are stable and dry.
Surface preparation determines whether any of it holds. ICRI publishes concrete surface profile guidelines for exactly this reason — the substrate must be sound, clean and profiled, and featheredged repairs break off at the thin edge every time.
What this category covers
- Horizontal patching
- Vertical and overhead repair
- Structural repair mortars
- Epoxy injection
- Bonding agents
- Anchoring and grouting
- Waterproofing membranes
Standards that govern it
Manufacturers in this category
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