Commercial caulking in Lakewood

Lakewood is the metro’s big west side office market. The Union Boulevard corridor near the Federal Center is lined with mid-rise office buildings from the 1980s, skinned in precast, brick and ribbon glass, and the Denver Federal Center itself is one of the largest concentrations of federal buildings outside Washington, with structures dating from the 1940s to recent decades. To the east, Belmar rebuilt the old Villa Italia mall as an urban retail district in 2004, and West Colfax carries decades of one and two story commercial.

The Union Boulevard buildings are on the same schedule as the DTC: window perimeter, mullion and precast panel joints from the 1980s that have been through one reseal and need the next. Belmar and the newer retail are EIFS, brick veneer and storefront aluminum reaching their first reseal. Buckley Joint Sealants works the west side from Aurora with the same published pricing, quoting by seal type and by access, and sequencing occupied office buildings elevation by elevation.

Lakewood sits closer to the foothills than the east metro, and its buildings take the downslope chinook winds that swing temperatures dramatically in a single winter day. Joints move more in that exposure, and stiff old sealant tears sooner. West facing elevations here are often the worst on the building.