Colorado Facade Restoration & Waterproofing Services
Restoring and protecting commercial building exteriors across Denver, Colorado Springs and the rest of Colorado for more than 25 years.
Where Is Your Building?
We work throughout Colorado. Start with your nearest market, or request a quote for a property anywhere in the state.
Denver, CO
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We take commercial projects across the whole state, including Aurora, Fort Collins, Lakewood, Thornton, Arvada, Westminster, Pueblo, Boulder, Greeley, Longmont, Loveland, Broomfield, Grand Junction and Castle Rock.
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Commercial Facade Restoration And Waterproofing In Colorado
Presto Restoration restores and waterproofs the exteriors of large commercial buildings across Colorado, including Denver and Colorado Springs. Work covers facade glass, metal and stone, commercial caulking and sealants, parking deck coatings, fluid-applied roofing, historic preservation and leak detection. Presto works above grade only, on multi-story commercial property, and does not take residential or small-scale projects.
- Service area
- Denver and Colorado Springs and surrounding areas across Colorado
- Building types
- Office and condominium towers, hotels, hospitals, university and government buildings, parking structures and historic landmarks
- What drives the work
- Altitude UV and large daily temperature swings, plus the most damaging hail exposure of any state in the country
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Our Restoration Services
Facade RestorationMasonry repair, repointing, sealant replacement and coatings on brick, terra cotta, precast and curtain wall.
Commercial WaterproofingJoint sealants, wet glazing, water repellents and plaza deck systems that keep the envelope dry.
Parking Deck RestorationConcrete repair, traffic coatings and expansion joints on structures that take road salt every winter.
Commercial Roofing & CoatingsFluid-applied systems over single-ply, metal and modified bitumen, extending roof life without a tear-off.
Historic PreservationSubstrate-matched cleaning and repair for soft brick, limestone, cast stone and architectural metal.
Leak Detection & ConsultingControlled water testing, infrared thermography and invasive openings to find the actual source.
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LOCAL CONDITIONS
Why Colorado Buildings Need Engineered Envelope Solutions
Altitude, UV And Daily Temperature Swings
Colorado's climate looks mild in the annual averages and is anything but at the building envelope. Denver sits above five thousand feet and Colorado Springs higher still, where thinner, drier air means substantially more ultraviolet reaching the facade. UV is the main thing that ages exposed sealants, elastomeric coatings and single-ply membrane, so materials here reach the end of their service life sooner than the manufacturer's general figures suggest.
On top of that the temperature routinely swings thirty or forty degrees between afternoon and dawn, and a sunny January day can put a south wall through a freeze-thaw cycle by itself. Every swing makes the building expand and contract, and every joint has to absorb that movement. Hardened sealant plus continued movement produces adhesive failure, where the bead pulls cleanly away from the substrate and the wall has an opening.
Hail On The Front Range
The Front Range corridor from Fort Collins through Denver to Colorado Springs sits in the most hail-prone part of the United States, and hail is the loss event that most often puts a commercial envelope into a repair cycle here. The damage is rarely limited to the roof. Hail bruises single-ply membrane without puncturing it, dents metal panels and coping, cracks elastomeric coatings on parapets, and breaks the seal on glazing units, so leaks show up months later somewhere the storm was never blamed for. After a significant storm the useful question is not whether the roof is leaking today but whether the membrane and the coatings still have their remaining service life, which needs someone up there looking at them.
RECENT WORK
Colorado Portfolio Highlights
QUESTIONS
Building Restoration In Colorado
Does Presto Restoration Work Throughout Colorado?
Yes. Denver and Colorado Springs have their own service pages, and we take commercial projects across the rest of the state including Aurora, Fort Collins, Boulder, Pueblo, Greeley and Grand Junction. We don't have a true HQ, so crews are assembled around the project rather than dispatched from one fixed location.
What Kinds Of Buildings Does Presto Work On In Colorado?
Large commercial and institutional property: high-rise offices, hospitals and medical campuses, universities, hotels, condominium and multifamily towers, parking structures, government buildings and historic commercial buildings. Our work is above grade, meaning the building envelope from the plaza deck up. Plaza decks and parking structures are in scope.
How Does Hail Damage Show Up On A Commercial Building?
Often not as an obvious hole. Hail bruises single-ply membrane, fracturing it below the surface without puncturing it, so the roof does not leak immediately but has lost much of its remaining life. It also dents metal panels and coping, cracks elastomeric coatings on parapets and ledges, and breaks seals on glazing units. The leak frequently appears months later, somewhere nobody connects back to the storm.
Why Do Sealants Fail Early On Colorado Buildings?
Two reasons that compound. Ultraviolet exposure at altitude is stronger, which hardens the sealant so it loses the elasticity it needs. And the daily temperature swing is large, so the joints do far more expansion and contraction cycles per year than the annual high and low would suggest. Hardened sealant plus continued movement produces adhesive failure, where the bead separates cleanly from one face of the joint.
When Is The Best Time Of Year To Schedule Exterior Restoration In Colorado?
Sealants, coatings and mortar have minimum application temperatures, so the practical construction window runs from roughly late April into October, and shorter at elevation. Hail season peaks from April through August, which is worth factoring into the sequence. Investigation, engineering and scoping can happen any time, and scoping over the winter is what makes a full season of production possible.
How Long Has Presto Restoration Been Doing This Work?
More than 25 years. We specialize in facade restoration, waterproofing, caulking and coatings on large commercial buildings, which means the crew on a Denver high-rise has done that specific work rather than treating it as a sideline to general contracting.
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