About
The Structure That Gets Inspected Last
Romco Builders is a licensed Florida general contractor. A parking garage is the most exposed structure most properties own, and it is the one nobody looks at until concrete lands on a car.
The structure, its age, and what you have noticed. If there is an engineer's report, send that instead — we will price what it identifies.
Exposed
A garage is a structure left outside for fifty years
Unit rates
Repair quantity is unknowable until it is opened
Parking
Where displaced cars go decides the whole program
Licensed
General contractor, licensed in the state of Florida
Why we will not assess and repair
A contractor who assesses a garage and then prices the repairs has an incentive to find more, and the owner has no independent check on the scope.
So the assessment should come from a structural engineer who is not doing the work — with sounding and chloride testing, not a visual walk. We price and build what they specify.
Why unit rates, not a lump sum
Nobody knows how much deteriorated concrete there is until it is opened. A fixed price given before sounding is either padded or thin, and the thin one becomes an argument in front of whoever approved the budget.
Rates fixed at award, quantities estimated by the engineer, actuals measured and engineer-verified, reported monthly. It feels less certain and it is considerably more controlled.
What we will not do
Coat over unrepaired concrete. Remove only the visible spall and leave contaminated material against the steel. Cut into a post-tensioned slab without locating the tendons. Reopen a phase before the cure time is complete.
Each of those produces a visible result for less money, and each is a way of paying for the same work twice.
Licensing
Romco Builders is a licensed Florida general contractor. We build to a structural engineer's specification and do not substitute our judgement for theirs.
Next step
Find out what is actually wrong with it.
An inspection, photographs of what we found, and a written scope. If the honest answer is that it can wait another season, that is the answer you will get.