Turning a heritage-listed building sited at the corner of George and Pitt Streets, opposite Sydney’s Central Railway station, into a hostel for backpackers, the designers, CRA Design Associates, were mindful of the building’s timber floors as well as the propensity of backpackers to “splash”.
They also noted that high standards of cleaning the wet areas of the building, called the Millcrest, could best be met if high water pressure water could be sprayed directly onto walls to ceiling level prior to mopping/wiping down.
Accordingly, they specified the Wolfin waterproofing system from the chosen for its track record in waterproofing in permanently damp areas and its reliability in projects around Sydney. At the Millcrest, Wolfin was used on the bathrooms, kitchen, bar, cleaners’ rooms, linen rooms and laundries. The service ducts were also lined with self-adhesive Wolfin S and in the bathrooms the Wolfin membrane was taken to ceiling height - 2.8m.
The Wolfin stainless steel system was used as edge termination around the bathroom doors as these would be continuously damp. In the rest, the membrane was terminated by standard Wolfinsteel profiles fastened to the metal wall frames. The wall membrane was covered with FC sheet and the tiles were applied over.
Source: Building Products News.