It already is and has been since the late 20's ........


Still hear and after 5 years of living here, we haven't had a problem.

In the future, name changes are gonna be PPV only. I'll take care of this one on the house.

Have you considered moving?

That just cost you some homebrew. I had a very nice double-chocolate stout with your name on it to. WooWoo

Yeah - I'll bet it was gonna taste pretty good when you drank it with my name on it, too.

Damn, he's on to me. ROFL

I tried clicking my heels 3 times once, the devil appeared laughing his ass off at me.

Make sure you have a good sump pump and well for the water to collect in. The drainage pipe is preferrable as well as the heavy sealing wrap, I forget the proper name for it. We used it on three houses in an area with a high water table, along with the sump and piping it all worked great.

A new house in my neighborhood has all three, sump inside/outside, viscous wrap (not the actual name of the stuff) and piping around the footing that feeds into the outside sump well.

In most cities that is against the code.

I do not have a sump pump nor do I need one, the water drains out very nicely. It's the walls that leak,I need to stop the leakage and currently doing so. Just wanted to know if anybody else knew of a better way to treat it on the inside before the outside work is done.


That's all ............. :p

Is this in your basement? Are your gutters clogged?

















ROFL

For treating from the inside there are two methods.

1) Chip away at the cracks (or holes), and then patch with hydraulic cement.
2) Inject the crack with hydraulic epoxy.

As to solutions, number 2 is the best way, but I don’t recall the name or manufacturer of the product. I used it some 10 years ago very effectively. It’s pumped into the crack and will actually follow the moisture filling the crack all the way to the exterior.

Now when you come to doing the outside work you need to consider whether you need to damp prop or waterproof. If you have good drainage and soil conditions, damp proofing is the way to go. That’s just a good drainage system and sealing the outside wall with something along the lines of Tamms Dehdratine 85 or a similar product.

However if you have a lot of clay in your soil and poor drainage you may need to waterproof.
This means going all the way to the footing to install the drainage system and in extreme cases installing a second drainage system halfway up the wall.
You will then need to install a membrane to the exterior wall this can be done with either MIRADRI 860 (a peel and stick, pain in the ass) or MIRADrain 6000 which is a heavy duty drain system for the wall.

The cost is around $5.25 a gallon for the Dehydratine which will cover about 25 sq yds a gal.

A 200 Sq ft roll of MiraDri 860 costs about $70

MiraDrain 6000 cost $0.75 a sq ft.

Good luck it’s a big job but best done by the home owner as most Waterproofing Companies are out to rip you off (worked for one for about 6 months).

Marine epoxy will stop most water leakes.

III, put your daddy back on the phone

Heh, trying to work the office and do the work downstairs is a bitch. Up the stairs, down the stairs.......back up, back down....

At least I'm working them pounds off da ass.