Commercial caulking in Parker

Parker built most of its commercial stock in one twenty year burst, from the late 1990s through the 2010s, and nearly all of it is EIFS or stucco over frame: the shopping centers along Parker Road, the medical office buildings around Parker Adventist Hospital, the flex buildings in Compark, the restaurants and banks on Mainstreet. That means one town’s worth of buildings reaching the end of original sealant life within the same few years, and it means the failures are the EIFS kind: window sill and head joints, control joints, and the terminations where stucco meets storefront aluminum.

Buckley Joint Sealants approaches Parker EIFS the way the wall manufacturers require: finish routed back at the joint face, primer, and a low modulus sealant from the system’s approved list so the wall warranty stays intact. Window openings are priced individually and control joints per foot, so a center owner or a medical office landlord can budget by building.

Parker sits on open high plains east of the foothills, in the heart of the Front Range hail corridor, and its EIFS walls take the brunt of the spring and summer storms. After the roofer has been through, the sealant at the sills and the parapet caps needs its own inspection, because that is where hail knocks it loose.