{"id":4675,"date":"2020-12-10T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stormseal.com\/au\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2020-12-10T12:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T02:00:41","slug":"year-long-protection-for-graduate-house-at-anu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormseal.com\/au\/year-long-protection-for-graduate-house-at-anu\/","title":{"rendered":"Year-long Protection for Graduate House at ANU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4678\" src=\"https:\/\/stormseal.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image006-300x250.png\" alt=\"Year-long Protection for Graduate House at ANU\" width=\"500\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stormseal.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image006-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/stormseal.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image006-768x640.png 768w, https:\/\/stormseal.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image006.png 858w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>In January, a severe storm cell came through Canberra with hailstones as big as baseballs. About 85% of roofs across our student accommodation at Graduate House were damaged \u2013 tiles were smashed, and others had hairline fractures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The leaking roofs resulted in water damaged rooms on the top floor and some students needed to be relocated. We initially threw some tarps up, but they were inadequate, and couldn\u2019t cover the whole roof.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Because it was an older building, the same roof tiles weren\u2019t available anymore, so we knew we needed a long-term solution.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Luckily, we heard about Stormseal through a roofer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Once Stormseal was engaged it was so quick and easy. It sealed and protected the building \u2013 and has done for almost a year now \u2013 allowing us time to organise the roof repairs and replacement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Once Stormseal was on, the students returned to their accommodation, which minimised the disruption to their studies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The whole mess of trying to get tarps up was painful but working with Stormseal was really smooth. We are very happy with the product \u2013 it has saved us time and money \u2013 and we would definitely use it again!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gary McDonald<br \/>\nContract Manager<br \/>\nSpotless Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leaking roofs resulted in water damaged rooms on the top floor and some students needed to be relocated. We initially threw some tarps up, but they were inadequate, and couldn\u2019t cover the whole roof.\u00a0Because it was an older building, the same roof tiles weren\u2019t available anymore, so we knew we needed a long-term solution.\u00a0Luckily, we heard about Stormseal through a roofer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building-home-owners","category-case-studies","post_format-post-format-gallery","category-86","category-80","description-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Year-long Protection for Graduate House at ANU | Stormseal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The roof tiles weren\u2019t available, we needed a long-term solution. 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