Phase 01 / Assessment
Concrete does not negotiate.
It warns you in small pieces first, then it invoices you in big ones. Keeping spalling inside a proper maintenance rhythm is how you protect reserves, keep insurers calm, and avoid the repaint that lands on edges that are already tired.
When breakouts are left in the “we will see” pile, chlorides ride deeper, patches get bigger, and the next contractor has to price risk you could have trimmed months ago. In sectional-title schemes, visible concrete cancer also arrives in trustee conversations at exactly the wrong time, often beside a body corporate painting programme that needs sound arrises and balcony edges before any coating system can do its job.