The conversation about BalcoDeck® often starts with cost. It is the wrong starting point.
The right question is not what BalcoDeck® costs. It is what a penetrative installation costs – properly priced, including post pocket details, penetration sealing, deck coordination and ongoing sealant maintenance. And then what a failure costs, when water finds its way past a sealant interface years after handover and the repair bill arrives.
Before BalcoDeck® existed, there was no better answer. Penetrative fixing or nothing – that was the choice, and it was an uncomfortable one. Balconette lived with that reality for twenty years. BalcoDeck® was developed because that situation was not acceptable. If you specified a penetrative system before BalcoDeck® was available, you made the best decision you could with what existed. The landscape has now changed.
The full cost picture – alternative costs, risk costs and the liability question when things go wrong – is set out in the complete article here.
