How ready is your building for the monsoon?
Twelve questions across terrace, facade, wet areas, below-grade, tanks and drainage. You get a 0–100 score and a per-area breakdown showing exactly where the building is exposed. The score appears as you answer and is never hidden behind a form — only the written report asks for your details.
Twelve questions
- 01Terrace & roof
Does water drain off the terrace within a few hours of rain?
Standing water after 24 hours means the falls are wrong.
- 02Terrace & roof
Was the terrace waterproofing done or checked in the last five years?
- 03Terrace & roof
Does the terrace surface sound solid when tapped, rather than hollow?
Hollow coba means water is already travelling underneath it.
- 04Facade & external walls
Is the external plaster sound, with no hollow or bulging areas?
- 05Facade & external walls
Is the external paint intact, without peeling or blistering?
- 06Facade & external walls
Are chajjas and projections free of cracks and rust staining?
Chajjas fail first — they are the early warning for the whole building.
- 07Wet areas
Are all bathrooms and toilets free of leaks into the flat below?
- 08Wet areas
Is the tile grout in wet areas intact, without cracks or persistent damp?
- 09Basement & below grade
Is the basement, stilt or lift pit dry, including after heavy rain?
- 10Water tanks
Are the overhead and underground tanks free of damp on the structure around them?
- 11Drainage
Are all rainwater outlets, gutters and downpipes clear and flowing?
Blocked drainage causes more monsoon leaks than failed membranes do.
- 12Drainage
Is the building free of any leak that returned after a previous repair?
A recurring leak means the original diagnosis was wrong.
Why May and July are not the same decision
This is chemistry rather than a sales deadline. Membranes need a dry substrate to bond to. Coatings need their full cure time before they meet standing water. Brick bat coba needs fourteen to twenty-one days of water curing, and that period cannot be compressed by adding anything to the mix.
Work booked in March or April gets all of that. Work booked in July gets a wet substrate, no curing window, and a system that looks finished at handover and fails in the second season. During the monsoon the honest scope is different — injection grouting to arrest active leaks, which works precisely because water is present, and a survey now for work that starts when the rain stops.
The six areas this scores
- Terrace and roof — falls, drainage, the state of the existing system, and whether it sounds hollow.
- Facade and external walls — hollow plaster, paint condition, and the chajjas that always fail first.
- Wet areas — leaks into flats below, and grout condition as a proxy for what is underneath.
- Basement and below grade — whether it stays dry after heavy rain, which is the only test that matters.
- Water tanks — damp on the structure around them, which is how tank leaks present.
- Drainage — outlets, gutters and downpipes. Blocked drainage causes more monsoon leaks than failed membranes do.
About this score
Do I have to give my details to see the score?
No. The score and the full per-area breakdown appear as you answer, and nothing is hidden behind a form. Only the written report — the version you would put in front of a committee — asks for a name and phone number. Making you answer twelve questions and then hiding the answer would be a poor trade for your time.
What counts as a good score?
Above 80 means the building is in reasonable shape and needs maintenance rather than intervention. Between 55 and 80 means there are gaps that will widen with each monsoon. Below 55 means several areas need attention before the rains, and the risk is that water reaching reinforcement turns a waterproofing budget into a structural one.
I answered 'not sure' to several questions. Does that hurt the score?
Partly, by design. 'Not sure' scores about a third of the marks, because an unverified area is a genuine unknown rather than a pass. If several are unknown, that itself is the finding: nobody has looked at those parts of the building recently.
When should I do this?
Before the monsoon, and early enough to act on it. Membranes and coatings need a dry substrate and their full curing period, so work booked in March or April gets both. Work booked in July gets neither, and typically fails the following year.
Is the scoring transparent?
Yes. Each question carries a stated weight, the per-area breakdown shows exactly how each area scored against what was possible, and unanswered questions score zero rather than being silently excluded. You can audit the number rather than take it on trust.
Turn the score into a scope
An engineer visits, checks the areas the score flagged, and gives you a written itemised scope you can put to a general body meeting. It costs nothing.
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