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Complete Interior Mortar and Exterior Clay Cap

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Day 3: Emergency Foundation Repair

What happens here

After addressing the exterior, return inside the garage to complete any remaining interior mortar work on the cinder block wall. This includes applying mortar to any areas missed or for final smoothing of the joints. While one person is finishing the interior, another worker can begin laying down a clay cap over the exterior gravel layer. The clay cap consists of native soils high in clay content, which holds together and retains moisture on the surface. This cap helps to shed surface water further away from the foundation, complementing the drainage aggregate below. The clay soil is spread and compacted on top of the gravel, then graded to direct water flow.

Goal: Finish interior wall sealing and install a protective clay cap over the exterior drainage system.

Tools and materials

  • Rake — Finishing and grading the clay cap
  • Shovel — Moving clay soil
  • Skid Steer — Spreading and compacting the clay cap
  • Trowel — Applying and smoothing mortar
  • Mortar/Cement Mix — Final interior sealing
  • Native Clay-Rich Soil — Creating a waterproof clay cap over the gravel

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mudding as these tuckpointing Frankie's also using any extra concrete that he has left over to help cor fill that corner and make it a little bit stronger he keeps it extra wet for work its way down through the core fill on its own with the wall back filled with free-draining aggregate and allowed to daylight on both ends it still has to be clay cabbage but instead of explaining it let me just show you what if we put the native soils which are high in clay this is clay holds together retains moisture only on the top about 12 inches or so is that what you'd say you put in Alex or perfect-perfect what that does is any water that sheds doesn't tend to rush right through but runs off and the water that does tend to stick will go through hit the non-permeable zone and run out so we've created a strategy that just keeps the most water away so it becomes a process

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