/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I'm kinda tired of constantly telling you retards how much exterior systems are shit, so by all means spend the money paying someone to dig out your entire fucking house, put a proper french drain in somehow coming out to daylight sloped correctly (I hope you live on a hill) properly clean the walls, tar them and put some kind of durable moisture barrier up (hoping it doesn't say or get a hole in it or anything) then be sure to backfill it so there's no sinkhole around your house. All in all, lots of fun for you if you want to do it yourself, hope you do it right the first time, otherwise you gotta dig everything back out and chase the issue.

>>1976661
Hey what's up :^)

>>1904333
No? If your stone has fines in it you take it back and tell them to give you some without fines. Even still, the slits on the corrugated pipe are very small, nowhere near big enough for fines, much less whole rock to fall in.

>>1903910
Ah shit I totally forgot that I installed the one in OPs house. OP hasn't proved he even has a proper system and not one of those bullshit plastic trough systems that look like shit and don't work. I wanna see the flashing properly layered up against the wall flowing towards the sump well. I wanna see the 3" perforated corrugated abs pipe 10 inches under the floor surrounded by 57 stone, protected from the concrete that was poured back by tar paper. I wanna see how they plumbed the discharge from the well.

>>1903476
Look man, you have fun and keep selling people $20k+ exterior systems that inevitably fail and aren't warrantied, and I'll keep installing interior systems that cost a third of that, have never failed and are warrantied for the life of the structure.
PS interior pressure relief systems generally incorporate a sump pump unless a gravity flow system is possible, but 9 times out of 10 it's a sump pump.

>>1903320
Keekles, go fuck yourself you never worked faggot. The systems work very effectively when installed correctly. Also they actually do address water flowing down the wall because there is a gap created by the galvanized flashing that isolates the floor from the wall. Water doesn't "hit" the wall, it's not like you have Cletus standing outside spraying your wall with a water hose 24/7.
>flowing down to underneath the floor
Where the actual fuck do you think the system is? It's 10 inches below the fucking floor. I swear, if I could physically strangle everyone who swears by retrofitted exterior systems I would be all over that.

>>1902555
You have a system huh? Show flashing against wall isolating the floor from the wall. A sump well and pump in a random corner of the house does not an interior pressure relief system make.
>>1902562
You can straight up just kill yourself.

>>1901013
It's ya boy here. OP, you are a retarded faggot. Please by all means put some plastic down over that wet spot, I wanna see how moldy your floor can actually get. Also, check and make sure it isn't actually just a drip from a leaking pipe or condensation.

>>1868158
Unfuck your downspouts and install an interior pressure relief system, don't forget to drill your block below the floor level after you've broken out the floor because they fill with and hold water.

>>1860161
What's he gonna seal it with? Tar, brushes, rubber, etc are not cheap. What happens when his cheapo shovel breaks digging up who knows how many tons of likely hard dry dirt? What about the digging bar he'll probably end up needing?

>>1860047
Kek, this is pretty bad. Check your gutters and downspouts to make sure they're draining away from your house. That's free and easy. If that doesn't pan out, I dunno you have a poorfag mentality, and $100 wouldn't cover jack shit to fix it.

>>1852686
https://www.appliedtechnologies.com/products/concrete-crack-foundation/concrete-crack-repair-methods/

>>1849112
You can also use Thoroseal if you don't really like dark grey walls. I should clarify this is for the the inside. It really just sounds like you need to unfuck your downspouts and point them away from the house, preferably down a hill somewhere. After you do that, then maybe look into an interior pressure relief system.

>>1847510
Heard you were talking shit, like I wouldn't find out.
>>1847481
Is it crumbling like sand because when they poured the foundation they just filled it with river rock instead of concrete? If you're really bored and want to try something, go buy some hydraulic cement, mix it up til it's super thin and pain it on the wall with a masonry brush. Make sure the wall is clean, but after you knock off all the loose bullshit, wet it down as you apply the cement.

>>1833482
I'm not here to argue with you, unless you happen to be OP who has water in his basement.

https://www.youtube.com/user/dano548x8

>>1833344
It doesn't keep it out. Its literally in the name. Interior pressure relief system.

>>1833208
Do you know how much more effective and cheaper an interior system is?

>>1833152
I'm sure they did, but obviously if the water is still coming into the basement, drain tile on the footer hoping it actually drains away, and tar and a membrane on the wall doesn't actually keep water from coming through the wall.

>>1832920
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>>1832925
Looks good man, and on the bright side, if water pools anywhere else you can always just add on to the system. Now you just have to wait for it to rain again.

Before that happens I would do a little test on it and fill up the sump well with a hose and see how it runs. And then maybe lay a hose on the far end of the trench and see how well water flows into it and into the sump. Unplug it before you fill it up or else it'll discharge when its supposed to, and be careful around water and electricity.

>>1832942
Well you guys already know what I'm going to suggest so let's just get on with it.

Exterior systems are pointless unless you are installing them on new construction. Install an interior pressure relief system.

Alternatively use plastic pallets so they don't rot and/or grow mold.

>>1829801
Like I said, rock is rock. As long as it doesn't get into the pipe or well, and doesn't have a bunch of dust or fines in it, you'll be fine

>>1829919
You are a fucking moron. If you'll read earlier I posted a link, this same link right here https://www.appliedtechnologies.com/products/concrete-crack-foundation/concrete-crack-repair-methods/

But, in case that doesn't satisfy you this is a company we competed with, and the system we installed is almost identical.
https://www.sealtitebasement.com/basement-waterproofing.html

Finally, if you are not fully satisfied, then you can take your head and shove it the rest of the way up your own ass.

>>1829779
Yeah, you're right water does not flow uphill.

>>1829696
No shit? You need a way for water to flow from the yard to the well? Gosh, I sure wish there was some way to coax water from soil by giving it a path of least resistance into the well.