Basement Waterproofing?

Bishop

Bishop

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Does anyone on here do it or have had it done?

Looking at an investment house that is 70K under taxable value. Basement is block and paneled. It appears to have had issues for a while and the problem appears to be at the wall/floor junction (possibly collapsed/clogged drain tile). I need to get an estimate next week.

Thanks for any advice.
 
My basement had some plastic covering like 2 feet above the floor. It is like 5mm thick but I am not exactly sure how or if it works. But the basement seems to stay dry. I applied drylok to the rest of the walls as they would leak on really wet days. It sealed them up from outside moisture. I am not sure if it would work near the floor or not for you.
 
My basement has leaked for the first time since all this rain we got........It frome hydraulic pressure....The water has nowhere to go but back up again...so the water leaks through the floor between basement wall and floor....Unfortunatley the only way to fix it is to dig up around the whole house about 8 feet down and reseal the foundation wall so the water cannot get through it again. I have to do this now.....Boy is it going to be EXPENSIVE!!!! WOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Slowclean5.0 said:
My basement has leaked for the first time since all this rain we got........It frome hydraulic pressure....The water has nowhere to go but back up again...so the water leaks through the floor between basement wall and floor....Unfortunatley the only way to fix it is to dig up around the whole house about 8 feet down and reseal the foundation wall so the water cannot get through it again. I have to do this now.....Boy is it going to be EXPENSIVE!!!! WOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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My neighbor had to do that. They worked it one section of wall at a time so the walls would not collapse. Took some time and labor intensive, but not impossible.
 
Yeah...VERY COSTLY!!!!!! I dont have the time nor does my stepfather with his home improvement company. If I call another company in to do it...I bet it will cost upward 10,000-15,000 dollars. My whole house is surrounded by concrete. So whatever concrete gets busted up...has to be replaced...and we all know concrete aint cheap......:cry:
 
Slowclean5.0 said:
My basement has leaked for the first time since all this rain we got........It frome hydraulic pressure....The water has nowhere to go but back up again...so the water leaks through the floor between basement wall and floor
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My house does that. Starting around the spring thaw up until early summer, I get water coming up through the floor. I figure as long as I disclose it and sell when it is dry, I should be OK.

Did you try putting a sump in? I was going to try that and see if it helped.

-Geoff
 
WhiteHawk said:
My house does that. Starting around the spring thaw up until early summer, I get water coming up through the floor. I figure as long as I disclose it and sell when it is dry, I should be OK.

Did you try putting a sump in? I was going to try that and see if it helped.

-Geoff
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A sump wont work for our problem....A) our basement is not flooding and B) you have to put the tubes that have the holes in them and then like 6" a peegravel ontop of that then hook the sump pump up to it to re-direct the water away from the house...which still requires diging 8' down along the side of the house. Our house just now started to do this.....OH I CANT WAIT FOR SPRING TIME. :bs: We will prolly have a pool in our fucking basement.
 
I "had" problems too. I fixed them myself. FIRST thing to do it to check the grade OUTSIDE your house I should have a 3 degrees pitch AWAY from your house. Mine had it coming towards the house and every time it rained I had water. (hydrosatic pressure). Anyways....I checked the "problem" areas and dug down 4 feet around my house. YEAH it sucked But I did it all in one weekend. Once I dug I cleaned the walls and skimmed coated a thin layer of hydrolic (sp) cement on it. dry back filled a foot of dirt, mist water on it to pack it down and repeated till the grade angled away from the house. I topped the area off with mulch.
WENT into the basement and looked for re-bar (sp) holes and filled with hydolic cement, any crackes or small holes...filled.
AFTER that dried I went picked up a white basement sealer. IT IS THICK...cost about 23-25 bucks a gallon and only does 8 ft area. DRYLOCK is the name. I did walls top to bottom and a ft on the floor from the walls. I have not had an spec of water since then. I bought my house 2 years ago and it "had" a finished basement. IT flooded about a month after we closed. (we didn't see any previous water damage or did the inspector)...
ANYWAYS...i had ever-dry come in before I tackled the job myself and they explained what they do (which I took notes)...and for the asking price of 12k...I did it myself!!!!!!!!!!!!
when Ever-dry came to my house they said they NEVER dig deeper than 6 ft UNLESS the interior wall has several damage or the house is over 50 yrs old. They said most damage occurs due to improper grade. grade will cure 80 percent of peoples problems.

ALSO...inpect your rain gutters...they should be moving water away from the foundation...keep them clog free
 
Hugger Z said:
My basement had some plastic covering like 2 feet above the floor. It is like 5mm thick but I am not exactly sure how or if it works. But the basement seems to stay dry. I applied drylok to the rest of the walls as they would leak on really wet days. It sealed them up from outside moisture. I am not sure if it would work near the floor or not for you.
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Hmm... never heard of the plastic covering, I'll have too look into it.

Slowclean5.0 said:
A sump wont work for our problem....A) our basement is not flooding and B) you have to put the tubes that have the holes in them and then like 6" a peegravel ontop of that then hook the sump pump up to it to re-direct the water away from the house...which still requires diging 8' down along the side of the house. Our house just now started to do this.....OH I CANT WAIT FOR SPRING TIME. :bs: We will prolly have a pool in our fucking basement.
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One thing I have seen quite a bit is cutting 1 foot of the floor away next to the wall. Then they install a pipe which then leads to the sump pump and the area of the floor is re cemented.
 
Bishop said:
Hmm... never heard of the plastic covering, I'll have too look into it.



One thing I have seen quite a bit is cutting 1 foot of the floor away next to the wall. Then they install a pipe which then leads to the sump pump and the area of the floor is re cemented.
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I agree...Thats pretty much what I was trying to explain.
 
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