Basement waterproofing

House Repair Talk

Help Support House Repair Talk:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
I will do those suggestions tomorrow and let you know what I find out. I also found this picture of when I was roughing in the bathroom. I left this hole open for a week or so and the water filled up much higher but this is an example of the water issue under the house. I would put a pump in it to dig and make connections and the water would fill right back up with in seconds.
 

Attachments

  • Basement water.JPG
    Basement water.JPG
    83.7 KB · Views: 6
So here i have an interior block wall running perpendicular into the exterior block wall. The exterior wall keeps running to the right into another room. How does the black pipe get into the next room over? Do you need to core drill through the footer on the interior wall and feed the pipe through? Im assuming the black drain pipe does not need to be placed next to the interior walls???
That would be a good reason to go lower and under footing, plumbers do dig thru a footing when they have to so which ever is easiest to make work.
 
im assuming you are asking about the sill plate that sits ontop of the concrete block?? If you zoom in on the pic the wood sits just above that glass block window. I would say at least 8” below the top of the window well

That's a problem (but a separate problem). Code is that foundation wall extend to 6" ABOVE grade. It helps to keep the sil plate and framing from rotting away.
 
Did some digging and this is what i found on the side of the house. Not sure if you can see anything feom these pictures.
 

Attachments

  • 5A85FE84-14B4-4529-A369-71FA895CD274.jpeg
    5A85FE84-14B4-4529-A369-71FA895CD274.jpeg
    112.5 KB · Views: 4
  • 355A798F-FBE8-4BAB-8523-5CED114A88AF.jpeg
    355A798F-FBE8-4BAB-8523-5CED114A88AF.jpeg
    111.1 KB · Views: 62
  • 1D05C2AA-1DFD-4B12-800B-AF1F44FDF389.jpeg
    1D05C2AA-1DFD-4B12-800B-AF1F44FDF389.jpeg
    104.1 KB · Views: 3
Did some digging and this is what i found on the side of the house. Not sure if you can see anything feom these pictures.
355a798f-fbe8-4bab-8523-5ced114a88af-jpeg.21206

Notice that the window well as been added too before they raised the dirt level
I would expect to see waterproofing or damp proofing to start 6 to 8" below the top of the window.
Not sure what the lump on the left is, might have been put there for a brick ledge that was not used. I would not be surprised if the original ground level was the bottom of the window and this was some ones idea of solving a water problem.
 
I will ask my neighbor if he remebers it ever being different. Here is a picture of the ledge from the inside. The other picture is of the main room that floods. I busted a small hole in the floor and water was right under it.
 

Attachments

  • FE70889E-E141-404C-A394-4A0CA5A4C562.jpeg
    FE70889E-E141-404C-A394-4A0CA5A4C562.jpeg
    35.5 KB · Views: 6
  • 8CDBE3ED-789A-42B6-A4A2-10FF907120E1.jpeg
    8CDBE3ED-789A-42B6-A4A2-10FF907120E1.jpeg
    96.6 KB · Views: 6
I will ask my neighbor if he remebers it ever being different. Here is a picture of the ledge from the inside. The other picture is of the main room that floods. I busted a small hole in the floor and water was right under it.
The block on the inside and out side, there must be load from above that a single thickness wall would not support by itself.
 
I have 3 of them along that wall. I would guess that wall is 40’ long. Above those blocks on the first floor are perpendicular walls that separate the bedrooms. None of the other basement walls have them.

As far as the mira drain (dimple board) goes. Im guessing that is in place to not plug up the weep holes that are drilled in the blocks? Do you need to worry about radon? Do you put silicone on the wall seam or does it stay open?
 
The block on the inside and out side, there must be load from above that a single thickness wall would not support by itself.
Those wall protrusions are there to help a block wall with support not from above, but for the strengh of the horizontal lenght of the wall. Sometimes inside and some on the outside help to prevent cracking longitudinally.
Also notice the extended metal window well that goes up. This was added to raise the dirt is my 2 cents.

Adding some drainage at the exterior is the best solution.
 
Thanks for your imput! I am going to be dojng both interior and some exterior work. After ripping out drywall and cutting studs and bottom plates out i dknt want to do this again!
 
I would expect to see waterproofing or damp proofing to start 6 to 8" below the top of the window.

Damp proofing and water proofing are not the same. Concrete and mortar are porous and moisture can transmit through it. Damp proofing will prevent this, and is required by code. But if some of the mortar joints are failing, its not going to stop water intrusion when the ground is saturated.
 
Damp proofing and water proofing are not the same. Concrete and mortar are porous and moisture can transmit through it. Damp proofing will prevent this, and is required by code. But if some of the mortar joints are failing, its not going to stop water intrusion when the ground is saturated.
It was only referred to because he is looking for the top of what ever he has when he digs outside . neither will do anything when you back fill above the bottom of the siding and framing.
 
Got the sump pump installed and tied into the downspout. Seems to be working great and is taking a lot longer to fill the pit up now that the pump has been installed for 48 hours. Picked up a roll of 100’ black pipe but not sure how to feen it though the footer. The old drain tile ran through that hole in the footer.
 

Attachments

  • 3FC9D2FA-5065-4471-8F99-F6F7AFCD9391.jpeg
    3FC9D2FA-5065-4471-8F99-F6F7AFCD9391.jpeg
    63.7 KB · Views: 7
  • 9A3A17A6-F8D0-48FF-AFF2-7C291CBEECF8.jpeg
    9A3A17A6-F8D0-48FF-AFF2-7C291CBEECF8.jpeg
    69.6 KB · Views: 6
Im not sure I understand what you mean by up out and down? Is that for the sump discharge pipe? If so I got that installed just fine. As far as going through the ledger... How do I do that?
 
Thanks. I got the sump pump installed and its tied into my downspout. What I cant figure out is how to get the corrugated pipe to run around the perimeter of my basement. When an interior wall meets the exterior wall how does the pipe go through the interior walls footer. In the picture that i attached it looks like they drilled through it to run the old clay tiles but the water is well below that hole. Im not sure how deep the footer goes uet because i havent ran a pump in the trench yet. Will i need to drill a new hole in the footer below the existing one?
 
Thanks. I got the sump pump installed and its tied into my downspout. What I cant figure out is how to get the corrugated pipe to run around the perimeter of my basement. When an interior wall meets the exterior wall how does the pipe go through the interior walls footer. In the picture that i attached it looks like they drilled through it to run the old clay tiles but the water is well below that hole. Im not sure how deep the footer goes uet because i havent ran a pump in the trench yet. Will i need to drill a new hole in the footer below the existing one?
Have you dug out the other side of the footing, that pipe was placed there and they pour concrete around it. You can't just use that whole? Plumbers often just jack hammer a slot thru the footing .
 
I have. Im usuing 4 inch Ads pipe and it wont fit through that hole. Im also thinking that the pipe needs to go a little lower where the actual water is collecting.
 
Back
Top