Marina Leisure Centre's pool gets chloride protection

Marina Leisure Centre's pool gets chloride protection

Flexcrete provided chloride protection of pool retaining walls for Marina Leisure and Fitness Centre which has Great Yarmouth’s largest leisure pool.

Very high chloride levels of up to 2% were found in the pool retaining walls as a result of overflow from the perimeter scum drainage channels servicing the main swimming pool and the shallower beach entry section. Over time, chloride laden water had penetrated into the unprotected concrete, corroding the reinforcement and spalling the concrete.

In order to provide a durable, long-term solution, a complete Flexcrete repair and protection system was specified for application to the retaining walls. Following thorough preparation, Steel Reinforcement Protector 841 was applied to the rebars to provide a corrosion preventative coating and the concrete was built back to profile with Monomix, a high performance, waterproof repair mortar which can be applied up to 80mm in a single application.

Due to high localised chloride levels, an embedded anode system was installed, offering the benefit of both impressed current and galvanic cathodic protection. Following this, Cementitious Coating 851 was applied overall to vulnerable surfaces to provide a permanent barrier to future chloride ingress.

The failed coating in the scum drainage channel was removed and Cemprotec EF Primer was applied to all surfaces prior to Monolevel 844SP, a waterproof engineering quality fairing and levelling coat. After which Cementitious Coating 851 was applied throughout the scum channel and drainage ports. This was specified as it forms a hard alkaline coating, resisting positive and negative pressure under a 100m head and a 2mm application of 851 provides equivalent cover to 100mm of good quality concrete.

As 851 is water-based, it exhibits minimal hazard during application, is virtually odour free and is non-toxic when cured. Such is the chloride resistance of 851 that Flexcrete has received official confirmation it will resist chloride penetration for at least 26 years. In 1988, a 2mm thick film of 851 was applied to a concrete slice and sealed in a chloride ion diffusion cell in the laboratory at the VINCI Construction Technology Centre and it is still going strong some 26 years later.

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