Kieron and Lisa. Forever home.

[kieron]

Hi all, my wife and I along with our 2 children have bought our forever home. It's in Coalport Shropshire. I've taken the house back to bare brick, ceiling joists plumbing and heating all stripped out. ( We have very understanding in-laws) our problem is, it's in a conservation area. Built in the gorge. Damp is our problem. As the rear and side of the property is partly under ground. I've dug out 10 inches all thru. But rain water is entering. Not at an alarming rate tho.  Could anybody give me any ideas of how to stop it. I could dig around the property but that's a big task and budget is small. We need new hardwood windows! That's another thing tho. Thank in advance if anyone can help. 

[Square Feet]

This stuff can work well if applied properly. You do have to be extremely careful to seal it all up well though.

I used it on one job where the stone walls (50cm thick) were saturated and would have needed a year to dry out properly before plastering otherwise.  

The scale of what you are dealing with might be beyond this product though and you might be into more specialist basement tanking territory.  Good luck. 

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ps - the plugs aren't anywhere near as exciting as they look 😉

Edited October 25, 2023 by Square Feet

[Gus Potter]

1 hour ago, kieron said:

Hi all, my wife and I along with our 2 children have bought our forever home.

Hello and welcome to BH from me.

 

Ok you're in a conservation area. But first with my SE hat on don't dig out any more as you could compromise the founds!

 

Post more photos and you'll get lots of help here. Main thing is not to do something that makes other things worse.

 

But to wet your appetite attached is a typical tanking system you can install yourself.. you buy it online. 

 

Before you do you have a big learning curve ahead of you to get this right but you have made a start by posting on BH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Newton_CDM_Installation_Manual_9.0-2.pdf Newton-508_TDS_9.1.pdf

[nod]

This is the last one that I did We had to run a drain around the outer edge and fit a pump But not always It’s probably worth getting a specialist survey to see if tanking will hold the damp back Or simply allow the water to collect behind the membrane 

 

There is the issue of certification to save problems further down the line 

Forever homes are rarely that 

Good luck 

[markc]

I recently dug out a cellar floor and lined with membrane as damp was sealing in through the walls. Months before I dug a hole in the floor adjacent to a damp outside wall and monitored what happened during and after heavy rain - hole remained dry so I didn’t need a sump and pump etc. (storage space only).

your floor/soil looks very wet so a drain and pump system is the way forward

Edited October 26, 2023 by markc

[scottishjohn]

if any help iwill tell you how my builders have tanked my old stone building which is 260 years old 

 they built a 4" blokc wall next to stone wall --stuck on tanking membrane then gap and naother 4" wall and filled the gap with concrete 

 

If you can get wall dry enough to stick m,embrane  then a gap and one " wall and fill gap with sloppy  concrete that will work - concrete makes sure no amount of water pressure from other side will lift the mebrane 

 

you maybe cannot afford to loose 6" --but that will be a forever solution 

then dot and dab plaster board on to block wall ? 

Edited October 26, 2023 by scottishjohn