Every case study below is work Innova has carried out, written from the job itself and illustrated with our own photographs. Each one sets out the access problem, the method we used, and what the client was left with.
Clients are named where they have given permission. Everywhere else the building is described rather than identified, and nothing is claimed that the job itself does not support.
38 St Mary Axe, City of London, EC3
Cement dust had bonded into the glazed tiles of the rear elevation. We lifted it on rope inside a live Mace site, then cleaned the windows and jet washed the paving ready for handover.
Streatham, London, SW16
An ageing domed rooflight replaced with an opening Velux unit, fully sealed and weathered. Scaffold at the front, rope access at the rear, completed in a single day.
City of London, EC2
Glazing and stone reveals cleaned on a City frontage, worked from roof anchors so the pavement stayed open throughout.
London, E15
Canopy and entrance glazing cleaned from ropes above a revolving door that stayed in use throughout.
London, E1
Full-height glazing, panels and vertical fins cleaned on rope so nothing stood at the entrance of a working hotel.
London, E14
Three technicians rigged in parallel so adjacent drops were cleaned wet-on-wet and the finish stayed even across reflective glass.
London, SW1
Rooftop parapet, terraces and colonnade washed down top to bottom over successive days, working around a live BMU and a planted sedum roof.
London, W1
Glazed atrium rooflight and its steelwork cleaned over night shifts, using a mobile tower on the lobby floor and rope access from the roof structure above it.
Central London, EC1
Eroded joints beneath a parapet coping raked out and repointed on rope, with the coping cleaned back and coated, inside a single working day.
London, SW16
A hidden parapet gutter holding standing water cleared by hand on rope, dried with a torch and resealed over three visits.
London, KT1
A guano-choked parapet gutter cleared on rope above a pedestrianised shopping street, with the shops and cafe terraces below open throughout.
London, W1
A blocked lead-lined gutter cleared, the seam torch-welded at the outlet and the flashing joint sealed, worked off the scaffold already standing.
London, W2
A cracked, soot-blackened ornamental cornice cleaned down, filled, made good and redecorated in cream.
London, N12
A long crack beside a window repaired and made good in a matching textured finish, with the panel repainted and the downpipe head cleared.
London, SW5
Render cracks filled by hand on rope in a lightwell that would be slow to scaffold and would block the light to the windows facing into it.
London, E14
Work at high level taken from the building's own roof-mounted BMU cradle, with nothing set up on the pavement below.
London
Sealing work at the base of a brick chimney stack, reached on rope across the slate pitch rather than from a scaffold or tower.
London
Failed slates lifted and replaced in patches across a Victorian roof, working alongside the lead valley and parapet.
London
Repairs worked across a pitched tile roof on a two-rope system, with no scaffold and no roof ladder laid over the covering.
London
A tall multi-flue stack reached from the ridge on rope, with rope protection over the leadwork, for inspection and repair work out of reach of any ladder.
Several case studies carry matched before and after photographs taken from the same position, so the result can be judged rather than described.
Access method is stated on every job: rope access, existing scaffold, mobile tower, cradle or ground level, chosen per elevation rather than sold as one answer.
Our repointing, sealing and render repairs are maintenance grade. Where a building needs lime work or stone repair, we provide the access and bring in a specialist mason.
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