My home 60 yrs old and built on a concrete foundation.
Old concrete basement wall repair.
Clean all walls thoroughly to remove all paint oil dirt and other foreign matter that can interfere with the bonding of quikwall surface bonding cement.
Old house with crumbling foundation concrete retaining walls repair how to repair a crumbling concrete wall 100 year old basement walls crumbling issues when ing a.
Mist the wall with water and then apply a coat of thoroseal with a latex additive check on amazon.
Mix the quikwall sbc using 1 1 4 to 1 1 2 gallons of clean water to each 50 pound bag of material.
Old house web or polyurethane.
Injecting a typical wall crack with an epoxy or urethane resin is done under pressure pushing the material from the inside all the way to the outside.
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.
A professional foundation crew will construct a one sided concrete form inside the old basement perimeter and pour a new concrete wall.
Apply small amounts of water over a short period until it has absorbed water deep into the wall.
The wall needs to be moist so that the old concrete won t leach moisture out of the mortar that you apply and cause the repair to fail.
If your walls are made of concrete blocks or the cracks are more than inch 1 3 centimeters wide fill the cracks with epoxy mixed with sand.
Always add the powder to the water.
The house is on a creek and with the rapid construction in the surrounding areas i have experienced basement flooding in 2008 2011 and 2013.
Pour an interior wall.
The injection process fills the crack from top to bottom from inside to outside.
To permanently patch the crack we used an epoxy injection system from polygem called the liquid concrete repair kit 60.
If your walls are made of poured concrete clean any cracks and then repair them with mortar hydraulic cement source.
The only way to repair foundation wall cracks successfully is by the injection process.