If your foil test showed that water is soaking through your basement walls and leaving them wet seal the interior of the.
Seal hole in concrete basement wall.
Here it is with brad for scale.
Why you can t just seal the gap between your basement floor and wall it may seem like an obvious solution to simply seal the cove joint to prevent water from breaching into your home.
On unpainted concrete surfaces proper preparation includes washing with trisodium phosphate tsp.
Sealing the tie rod holes 1.
If there is a substantial flow postpone the project until water stops moving through the hole.
Leave as is or cover with a suitable.
Use a dry cloth to blot up water that may have leaked through the hole.
To permanently patch the crack we used an epoxy injection system from polygem called the liquid concrete repair kit 60.
The second coat adheres to the first for a pinhole.
Use an epoxy injection system for basement wall crack repair we repaired a foundation wall which had an 8 ft long crack that leaked water into the basement during periods of heavy rainfall.
It is kind of a not very good thing.
The randonseal plus deep penetrating concrete sealer seals the concrete against basement moisture by penetrating up to 4 inches and internally sealing the concrete it blocks the micro pores and capillaries to prevent water vapor water spillage radon gas and efflorescence directly through the basement floor or walls.
Paint a generous coating of this material onto the wall working the product in all directions to completely seal any pinholes.
However it s not that simple.
A huge hole in the cement wall that separates our garage from our basement.
Step 1 locate the pipe in the basement wall that needs sealing.
Do apply a masonry waterproofing product to bare interior basement walls.
Insert a water activated compressed swell plug into the exposed tie rod hole.
Step 3 concrete sealers.
Seal the entire concrete wall with a waterproof masonry product.
After simple one to one mixing of my two part epoxy i can mix one gallon at a time and easily apply it.
Simply follow the instructions on the sealer and make sure it is fully dried before applying sealant to the rest of the walls.
Or rather one very large thing.
In the short term a sealant applied along this gap between your basement floor and wall may prevent leakage.
Fortunately there are a variety of products available to fill in these holes including cement or epoxy sealers.