comunidad Can Tolrà, BCN: Water tank lining
In 2021, the water tank lining at comunidad Can Tolrà, BCN was made with Polyurea Rayston.
01 · Project overview
What is this project?
In 2021, the water tank lining at comunidad Can Tolrà, BCN was made with Polyurea Rayston. Catalonia works a roof and a floor hard: sea air on the coast, a sharp swing between afternoon and night, and industrial towns that do not stop for a slow coating.
This one is water tank lining.
Polyurea Rayston is hot-sprayed. It gels in about four seconds and the usual build is 1.5 to 2 mm.
Krypton Chemical makes the resin. The crew on site applies it. On comunidad Can Tolrà, BCN the details have to get the same film as the open field, and the cure has to finish before the building goes back to work.
| Project | comunidad Can Tolrà, BCN: Water tank lining |
|---|---|
| Place | España – Cataluña |
| Year | 2021 |
| Line | Waterproofing |
| Products | Polyurea Rayston |
02 · The challenge
What did this structure ask of the system?
A tank holds water against its own wall for years. The leak starts at a pipe, a corner or a cold joint, and it shows up outside long after the tank was closed.
comunidad Can Tolrà, BCN: Water tank lining has to be one lining, floor and walls together, with the pipe entries in the same film. Filling waits until the cure is finished.
03 · The solution
Which system was trusted here?
The system trusted here is the one named for the job: Polyurea Rayston. It is chosen because it matches the substrate and the exposure, not because every building wants the same can.
On a roof the membrane has to follow outlets and upstands at the same thickness as the field. An exposed aromatic film takes a topcoat if the colour will be seen.
04 · Application
How is the system built?
Where the system is Polyurea Rayston, the concrete or the prepared deck is not sprayed over dirt. Pull-off should be at least 1.4 N/mm2. Cracks are cut out and filled. Moisture in the concrete stays under 4 percent, with the concrete between 10 and 40 degrees C. If the slab is damp behind, two coats of epoxy primer go on, the second blinded with quartz. That bond is what stops a blister when the deck heats up.
The spray is hot. Resin about 65 degrees C, isocyanate about 75 degrees C, hose about 65 degrees C, and at least 140 bar at the gun. The usual build is 1.5 to 2.0 kg per square metre, about 1.5 to 2 mm. Gel time is about 4 seconds at 25 degrees C. Typical elongation is 324 percent and tensile strength is 16.2 MPa. Those are the product’s figures, not a thickness measured on comunidad Can Tolrà, BCN: Water tank lining. An aromatic film shifts colour in the sun, so an exposed face takes an aliphatic topcoat. A buried lining does not need that coat to keep its strength.
On comunidad Can Tolrà, BCN: Water tank lining the roof fails at the edge long before it fails in the field. Parapets, outlets, plant plinths and laps are detailed first, with the same system, at the same thickness. A bay can be perfect and the ceiling still stains if the outlet was a collar of mastic.
The deck moves between the hot afternoon and the night. The membrane has to move with it. A rigid coat maps every crack in the substrate onto the ceiling. Thermal movement is the reason an elastic system is on a roof like this, not a preference for a particular can.
Where the film stays in the sun, colour and waterproofing are two layers. The membrane keeps the water out. An aliphatic coat keeps the appearance. Skipping the topcoat because the membrane is already waterproof is how a sound roof starts to look failed, and then gets recoated for the wrong reason.
05 · Results
What does a job like this stand behind?
comunidad Can Tolrà, BCN: Water tank lining has one standard. The coating is still doing its job after the building is back in use, at the details as well as in the middle.
Figures for cure, thickness and strength, where they are given, come from the product data sheets. They are not a test cut out of this building.
What this asks of comunidad Can Tolrà, BCN: Water tank lining is workmanship at the difficult line. The open field is the easy part of a resin job. Outlets, edges, penetrations and changes of plane are where thickness goes missing, and where water or wear finds the gap. The same products and the same care belong there, and the cure is allowed to finish before the building goes back into use. That is the difference between a coating that was simply applied and a system that stays in service.
06 · Products
Products on this job
Polyurea Rayston
Named on this project. The data sheet carries the application window and the typical figures.
07 · FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Where is this project?
comunidad Can Tolrà, BCN: Water tank lining. España – Cataluña
When was the work done?
2021.
Which products were used?
Polyurea Rayston.
How thick is the polyurea?
The usual spray is 1.5 to 2.0 kg per square metre, about 1.5 to 2 mm. That is guidance from the data sheet, not a gauge reading on this roof.
Does sunlight damage it?
The pure polyurea is aromatic, so colour can shift while strength stays. An aliphatic topcoat is used where the film stays in the sun.