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4 Solutions to fix a wet basement plus Noob Mistakes

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The video concludes by reiterating the critical difference between various waterproofing products available at home improvement stores. It specifically advises against using interior-only waterproofing paints (like UGL Drylok Latex Base Masonry Waterproofer) on the exterior of a foundation. Instead, products like Dry Seal Premium Rubberized Foundation Coating or Gray Shield Foundation Coating are recommended for exterior applications, as they are specifically designed for foundation waterproofing. It also touches on easily installed interior drain tile systems, such as the Quick & Easy system, which is lightweight and comes pre-wrapped in fabric, making it a convenient option for DIYers who don't want to haul heavy gravel.

Goal: Understand appropriate products for waterproofing and the importance of professional advice.

Tools and materials

  • Interior Waterproofing Paint UGL Drylok
  • Rubberized Foundation Coating Dry Seal — Waterproofing exterior foundation walls

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problem oh one of the things we want to show you too for window wells these are the kinds of covers you want if you get a flat cover expect the water to sit you want an angled cover you see how these covers have the angle built in automatically that's what you want but now if we've gone through and eliminated all of the obvious choices and we still haven't come up with a solution that's when we go inside of the home and do interior drain tile and let's talk these guys through the process of doing interior drain tile you want to get you want to start that sure basically you have to cut your concrete floor alright so usually about 15 inches out or so yeah you want to expose the footing you dig the dirt out and if you get through a window great otherwise you have to walk each bucket load up and out of the house from the basement stairs yeah then you dig a hole for yourself basket you have to bring in an aggregate you put put your drain tile in you put your aggregate around the drain tile but your great talent should say along side of the pudding yeah so how that's how we've done we put them alongside of the pudding you have to get up I can't think of what the product is but you put it's got some grooves in it and it's a it's an L that you put along your foundation and it goes down to the top of your footing so it allows any water to pass behind the the groove channel you would drill weep holes into your cinder block to allow any water that gets trapped in your cinder blocks cuz your cinder blocks are hollow so you would drill so what happens is I don't know if the camera will get down here but yeah if you'll have you'll see the top of it and it'll be all peeled out of these little grooves and it sits a long top of your footing any and then they would cover up the the weep holes so you got we pulls behind these groups so the water will sit go down behind this channel and over your footing and into the drain tile down to the sump pump and this leads us into a few of the things that you must avoid under any circumstances and that's hard piping and interior drain tile into an outside exterior drain tile this can cause premature failure due to freezing you've got to actually allow for an air space to go in there so that you can allow for expansion and contraction there's a number of different ways of doing that and I'm going to show you a few of these examples there's also other options for homeowners that want to do it themselves saw cutting this and bringing in…

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