I have a sump pump and just had a new french drain on the inside perimeter of the basement put in. The wall has been treated for mold and sealed, but the lower part of the cinder block wall still is seeping... wet to the touch. Any ideas???
2006-09-24 12:03:06 · 11 answers · asked by voyagernj 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
You need to have the outside of the basement walls properly treated. The basement contractor should dig a trench below the bottom of your wall. Then pack the trench with a weeping system and gravel to prevent it getting clogged. Then the outside of the wall itself needs to be treated with either a tar or rubber compound, and then a waterproof matting applied. The matting needs to come at least to ground level.
Then you need to make sure that the soil is higher at the house, sloping down into the yard to drain water away from the house naturally.
And you also need to make sure your eavestroughing on your roof line is working as it should, with a proper downspout and drainage from that.
2006-09-24 12:18:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had the same problem. My house is against a hill and I imagine the water pressure was great. I had used many products and it still had seepage, even using UGL. One day I had to visited a water sewage treatment plant. I had noticed guys on tall ladders on the concrete holding tanks. I had asked what was going on, they were sealing the cracks for seepage. I had asked what's the best product, they said, commerical grade DAM-IT. So I purchased this product and applied it to my cinder blocks and that was the end of seepages. Now it's been over 15 years and still no leaking or seepage.
2006-09-24 23:12:29 · answer #2 · answered by honker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
talk to the people who put the drain in.
It doesn't cure all problems, but it does remove the water once it gets in. They should have sealed the wall. Did they dig around the outside? or was that extra.
2006-09-24 12:11:28 · answer #3 · answered by zocko 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Install drain pipe at the footing level of your foundation and re-seal the exterior of the foundation.
2006-09-28 09:04:05 · answer #4 · answered by Scott K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you need Dry-Lock it's a sealer that actually penetrates into the block instead of just covering the outside like most sealers do.
If you can't do the job yourself hire a masonary.
2006-09-24 12:11:50 · answer #5 · answered by memm 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Try a product named UGL available at home depot or Lowe's and is suppose to stop that.
2006-09-24 12:10:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
UGL Dry-lok works good!!
2006-09-24 12:22:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Duck tape can solve any problem, well that and a hammer
=)
2006-09-24 12:05:35 · answer #8 · answered by smartman_06 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
seal it again
2006-09-24 12:05:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
dig up the outside and do it right
2006-09-24 12:10:20 · answer #10 · answered by rvsreno 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋