Leaking Basement.

Nitwit

This is was done to my basement. There is 5 pcs. of heavy white plastic paneling on the walls. I also have cracks in the floor concrete. This fix works real well. No water at all.

Warren

My last home was 70 years old with a leaky basement. At the time I didn't have much money to deal with it. I tried the hydraulic cement and the results were predictable. If I plugged a hole, the water would create a new hole. Tried this on three separate occasions with the same results. Eventually I replaced a broken downspout line which helped a little, but without excavation to deal with the porous block walls and lack of footer drains, a permanent solution was never gonna happen. My solution: I built a new house on a nicely sloping lot, correctly waterproofed, and let the new owner deal with the water problems on the other house. I did make them aware of the water problem which is required in our state prior to sale.

Michaeljp86

The only way to fix the problem from the inside is cut about 12" along the wall and dig it out and put in a drain tile and stone. Then drill holes along the floor into the openings in the block. Then you use a plastic cover around the base of the wall to cover the holes that lets the water run from the holes into the stone and out the tile. This isnt the best fix because you still have water inside your block.

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WNYcarpenter

Sump pump...My folks live on a hill with a lot of slate, the water just needs someplace to go. We dug a pit and used a core drill through the footer and relieved the pressure.

Then we just added a pump and...it ran for days, and actually drained the yard. No more problems.

My vote is to bust up the concrete nearest the problem and add a sump before your chunk up 12" around the perimeter. Water will find the easiest way out.

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Michaeljp86

When you run the tile around the inside you will have to run that to a sump pump. The idiots who did my dads basement put in 2 more sump pumps so there is 3 now. Only the one hooked up to the outside footer drain really does anything. The other 2 are hooked up to the tile on the inside, one I forgot and left it unplugged for years. It never filled and the other runs at most 10 times a year. The morons should have just ran this into the sump that was there.

Whats odd is when the house was built my grandpa put in a tile under the floor. This runs into the sump. Water never come out of this tile but in the summer when its hot and dry water will trickle out of it.

My uncle lives on top of a huge hill with a walkout basement, he even had water problems and had to have it sealed. Whats stupid is his house is like 40' above the road and they have a sump pump. I would have just ran it out teh side of the hill.

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Darwin

Here in lies the problem. Most leaks can be found from outside! Gutters and downspouts deflecting water away from the foundation. You have to logically ferret out A,B,C before you go inside and work on D! If the water table in their basement is the problem, you should be able to tell. Then recommend a solution.

a H/O's budget may dictate their project, but as a pro, your advice to them should be dictated by you and what you know will work.

Otherwise, you will be back out to their house several times to fix their leaking basement from the inside.