THAT leak

[Pocster]

Entire day of rain - storm so lots of rain .

15:30 - finally get a drop through . You can see it’s been building up to that . I’m going to leave this as is until spring . But if I were to seal the concrete I.e to prevent water coming through what would I use? . I guess I should be happy as gone from half a bucket to just this .

[SteamyTea]

2 hours ago, Pocster said:

Entire day of rain

I turned my wipers on at 4:55, and turned them off at 18:02, 617 miles in the (expletive deleted)ing rain, which was at its worst around Bristol. Avonmouth bridge was well soggy.

[Pocster]

1 hour ago, SteamyTea said:

I turned my wipers on at 4:55, and turned them off at 18:02, 617 miles in the (expletive deleted)ing rain, which was at its worst around Bristol. Avonmouth bridge was well soggy.

Avonmouth is a shit hole 

[SteamyTea]

29 minutes ago, Pocster said:

Avonmouth is a shit hole 

A place that you pass through often then.

[Onoff]

15 hours ago, Pocster said:

Entire day of rain - storm so lots of rain .

15:30 - finally get a drop through . You can see it’s been building up to that . I’m going to leave this as is until spring . But if I were to seal the concrete I.e to prevent water coming through what would I use? . I guess I should be happy as gone from half a bucket to just this .

 

I would clean that up with a bleach solution and scrubbing brush then apply shower tanking paint and see what happens.

[Pocster]

3 hours ago, Onoff said:

 

I would clean that up with a bleach solution and scrubbing brush then apply shower tanking paint and see what happens.

Hairline cracks in the concrete also I want to fill . Did assume some concrete / brick sealer waterproofing was the thing to try .

 

So a small number of drops did get the floor . Didn’t put a bucket to collect . But it is a small amount . Just checked it now - whilst not dry it’s clearly drying out . Considering how much rain we had and how quick it’s drying does kind of confirm it certainly isn’t a lot of water .

[Pocster]

Chat suggests sika 1 waterproofing 

 

Or this

 

 

Edited Saturday at 11:21 by Pocster

[Pocster]

Chat suggests . Clean it all up . Ct1 the joints I.e block work on the concrete - water gets through the mortar at this point . Then ka slurry the lot .

Edited Saturday at 11:34 by Pocster

[Pocster]

Slurry ordered and more ct1 👍

[scottishjohn]

On 15/11/2025 at 11:34, Pocster said:

Chat suggests . Clean it all up . Ct1 the joints I.e block work on the concrete - water gets through the mortar at this point . Then ka slurry the lot .

I had a similar but larger problem when trying to control the water leaks on my firepond 

 there was pressure as well with my leaks in the 5 meter wall behind the pond and a constant flow

 

 it was a sika _plugging fast setting cement 

mix it up  and you got  5mins to get it on -so small areas at a time

and can be use under water if you press it hard  onto the leak 

took me 2 days frigging about to gat all the leaks plugged   but it worked

mix it up till its like sloppy putty --then GO

I even used it on my water course --old water supply made from stones just laid on each other 

problem was it was leaking too much from the stone culvert and coming outanywhere it like where it went through the wall and not where I wanted it contained in the stone work 

 

 imagine a stone culvert coming to a dry stone dyke and trying to get all going where you wanted  on the other side --then you will get the picture 

did not matter with original set up as all the leaks ended up in the open collector at other side of wall , but as i was piping it in 300m twin wall all the way down to firepond 

8mm drop and 20m downhill  to where it meets the wall above the firepond

I did not want it to form another stream under the piping  and end up with the wall collapsing as it had done in the past   - not a problem then as it made its way into the stone culvert which heads off across my courtyard and down the 95m drop into the quarry

 that stone culvert I replaced with more 300mm twin wall 

 problem sloved but alot of frigging about

[scottishjohn]

On 15/11/2025 at 11:34, Pocster said:

Chat suggests . Clean it all up . Ct1 the joints I.e block work on the concrete - water gets through the mortar at this point . Then ka slurry the lot .

I would not use CT! --just use the wate plugging cement 

even on damp surfaces 

[Pocster]

1 hour ago, scottishjohn said:

I would not use CT! --just use the wate plugging cement 

even on damp surfaces 

Chat has now changed its mind 🙄 . Won’t bother with ct1 . Simply tanking slurry over the lot . There are no gaps it’s just porous material.