Exterior Waterproofing, How To Seal Your Foundation, DIY

Waterproofing your foundation, crawl space or basement from the outside.. the real secret is lots of gravel and liquid rubber.

Start by excavating the wall down to the footer.

Next clean off the footer and wall

Seal the wall from the seam at the first course of block or brick up to grade.

Install a small bed of gravel under your perforated pipe. Holes point down into the gravel. Then cover the pipe and the footer with more gravel .

Use a soil separator to cover the gravel.

If gravity is not available for the discharge of the footer tile, then a sump pump is needed to lift the water up and send it to daylight.

A great project for the Do It Yourselfer. Save 1000's!!!

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[chrisdelucca]

This is good starter video of what to do if you have a similar problem at your home. Things I would change is first I would clean out all the cracks (grind if necessary) and install hydraulic cement, or similar type product then use the rubberized sealant. Second I would set a good Geotech matting at the base of the trench then put the pipe at the bottom, no stone under the pipe. If there is stone under the pipe water will lay in the stone and not in the pipe This means it will not make it to the sump pump and just push water under the footing. Cover pipe with round large diameter stone and wrap fabric around so fabric covers the entire trench, basically like a giant burrito. In some cases we add a layer of stone over fabric at grade so that is your finished product . Water runs directly from the surface into the trench from grade. You can also put sod right over top of the fabric. The purpose of the full wrap of the fabric is to limit the amount of soil that enters the trench. The more soil that enters the trench cuts back on the life of the system. I would use a larger chamber sump basin set deeper than what is shown in the video. All an all this is a good video, the system just needs to be tweaked a bit.

[paystyles]

I was having foundation issues I didn’t know where to start your video helped me a lot fyi to all viewers Home Depot doesn’t have this product but I was able to locate it at Lowe’s

[YaBoiJayJ]

Glad this is on here. 🙏I have to do this to a room that was added on to a house about 23 years ago.

[MaDGriZz]

is it worth doing this to fill in cracks etc with hydraulic cement coat it with liquid rubber without a drain tile system ?

[TimetravelerMN]

Nice idea to start with environment, nature tour! Beautiful and helped people understand the elements you get there.

[anthonysaponaro]

It would be a lot better if you grinded out all of the cracks in the actual foundation then clean them out then fill them with something such as hydraulic cement and then seal however you feel . . . . . a dentist would not just put a filling in without first removing the decay, he is going get get rid of the rotted and cracking debris first.

[maurad]

I learn so much from your videos. Thank you!

[tiawilson]

Great video and explanation. This was my exact problem at my home.

[ecospider]

I put a concrete patio and walkway on 2 sides of my house and put a French drain around that. 10 years later I’m the only house on my side of the street with a dry crawl space and basement.

My foundation drain only sees water about once a year. So it’s not clogging any time soon.

[barakau]

Do you need to patch up the holes in the footer before waterproofing?

[dankieszt]

Thanks for the video very detailed and straight to the point.

[rameshgurudatta]

Your videos are really nice and very knowledgeful. It may funding needle in a haystack- I guess you don’t know anyone in Manchester UK that you recommended? Or can you monitor or advise if the French drain to be installed outside USA. I am happy to cover cost for your advise.

[GorVala]

Im staying in Cali.. thank you good sir for awesome video.... very informative

[johnritchie]

Should you use cement 1st before the liquid rubber for the gaps in brick?

[emperor]

Thanks Chuck you just showed me how to fix my problem. 👍🏿

[Bellislawns]

Been on that river several times when I lived in Orlando. Thanks for the view 👍

[wheeler]

Great views. I wish I could consider 50 degrees cold lol. Was mid 20s up here last week.

[gckshea]

The Willamette River in Oregon flows northward.

[davidfaluade]

Did you have Office in Pemboke Pines Florida? I will like a quote for my house.
Thank you!

[sergalvisc]

Would have sealed the holes with cement/quickrite, then put the rubber coating.