Basement Waterproofing

A basement room in a house provides an incredibly large and useful space for storing your goods. Moreover basements are cooler and less humid in summer than the other floors in the house. Basement flooding or an unpredictable water leakage remains a constant head ache for the homeowners. The water oozing down from the walls may cause extensive damage to the valuable goods. It may damage surfaced or paper covered walls, painted or carpeted floors.

Basement Waterproofing Article

It must be noted that repairing the leakage may cost more than simple waterproofing. Imagine if you are out of your house for a number of days and come back to knee deep water in basement floor.

There are many ways you can waterproof your basement.

You can use CBP tanking slurry. It is a kind of bonding agent and you can use it where you find the water pressure in your basement. Basement or the structural waterproofing of the cellars is also called tanking. This slurry is a premixed formulation of plastic modified hydraulically setting powder. It can be applied to a masonry substrate to form a monolithic bond. It blocks the passage of water and becomes an integral part of the structure.

Salt neutralizers can also be used where there is an evidence of salt infestation in the basement. You can also use fillet seal and rapid setting plugs to deal with the pressure areas where the wall meets the floor and there is a running or weeping water.

Basement waterproofing products in UK provide for another way for waterproofing the basement by using the cavity drain membrane system. It is an alternative to the conventional cementations tanking system. It works by holding the water back from leaking into the basement and controls it in the air gap and diverts it to a suitable draining point or pump. This system does not allow the pressure to build up in the structure and the air gaps behind the membrane dry out the water content. Moreover the membranes are impermeable to water and protect the basement from becoming damp.

This system of waterproofing can also allow the decoration and floor finishing to be completed shortly without having to wait for drying out periods.

Another system which is particularly useful for waterproofing the Victorian basements is to use studded membranes which use Oldroyd Xv Clear System or Vandex system. While the former system is useful for floors and walls, the later is suited or a flat ceiling. The best solution, however, is to use the combination of the two systems.