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Hairyloon
Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 15425 Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.
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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 14 12:35 am Post subject: Sealing an underground water leak. |
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Next door has a concrete front yard, which is not properly drained, so all the rain runs off and soaks into the ground at the front of the house where some of it seeps through the wall. This is technically underground, and below the damp proof course, so it arguably shouldn't be a problem, but I would like to make better use of my basement space, so I'd like to cure it.
Obviously, part of the answer is likely to be to sort out the yard so it drains into a drain, but it is not the only source of water so I'd quite like to seal the wall as well.
I wondered about knocking a hole in the ground in the vicinity of the leak and pouring something runny down it that would set into something waterproof, but the question is what?
I thought about very thin mortar made with concrete waterproofer, but I am not very convinced my that idea. |
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Rob R
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Hairyloon
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Hairyloon
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Hairyloon
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Hairyloon
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