Thursday, June 21, 2007

Wet Basement

relieve hydrostatic pressure
clean basement floor

1. Relieve hydrostatic pressure.

Make weep holes into the cells of each block (4" to 6" in from each mortar-joint ) at the point where the floor and wall meet. Solid poured concrete walls have no cavities, so weep holes are not required.

2. Prepare the surface properly.

To properly bond and seal the system to the concrete floor, the floor area along the wall approximately 3" wide must be stripped to bare concrete. To remove all paint or tile adhesive, use a 3M metal paint stripper wheel with your electric drill.


baseboard waterproofing
waterproof corners

3. Cut and fit the baseboard sections.

Now you are ready to cut and trial-fit the main sections along the basement walls.

4. Placing pre-molded corners.

Begin by placing pre-molded corner sections in all the corners. Mark the floor in front of the corners showing where the main sections will stop.





2 comments:

HyunChard said...

If you have been living in your home for many years and have been neglecting your basement, you have really been missing out on a very useful room in your home. Thanks for posting the steps in basement waterproofing systems.

Unknown said...

It is always important to get your basement protected because we wouldn't know when would heavy rain comes. Just like when I once live on my own I had a hard time fixing all my things when the heavy rain came into my house. So later I opt to get Lexington Basement Waterproofing