Tag Archive: leaks

When the board at Briar Oaks, a two-building cooperative at 4525 and 4555 Henry Hudson Parkway in Riverdale, decided to replace the buildings’ original roof railings, it seemed an obvious decision. The 60-year-old railings were deteriorated and pulling away from...

This has been an unusually cool and rainy spring so far, which means RAND has been conducting quite a few leakage investigations. With apologies to Creedence Clearwater Revival, RAND can't stop the rain, but we can help make your building...

Beauty, they say, is more than skin deep. At 33 Fifth Avenue, a luxury co-op in Greenwich Village, the board had to go more than skin deep to restore the beauty of their building and make it watertight. Time had...

With the recent storms and heavy rains, my Rand coworkers and I have been extra busy conducting leakage evaluations. To assist us in our investigations, we've been incorporating infrared technology. An infrared camera has a sensor that detects temperature differences...