For over 100 years water has (presumably) been pouring through my basement walls–gallons and gallons, not a little drip. I’m looking to control the situation. I’ve done grading and gutters; these helped.
Some of these basement waterproofing companies want to use a tiling system inside with a sump. Others want to dig out the whole basement wall and waterproof from the outside. At half the cost, I’m thinking the inside system is good enough. What’s your experience with this?
One problem I have is a lot of silt coming through the wall. Thinking about jetcrete to hold the silt back.
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If you waterproof the inside, you're going to trap water inside the wall structure. Putting a drainage system inside the basement will catch the water afgter it gets in, but the walls will still be wet and the climate in the basement will be very humid, being constantly re-wet by the entering water.
The best solution is to stop the water before it penetrates the outer plane of the basement wall.
I'm sorry, I thought you wanted it done the right way.
I dug around a whole house....let the walls dry out and tarred them....big job. But never a problem again.
On my house here I dug around three sides of the house and poured concrete up againt my existing rubble rock wall to keep it in place because it was corroding and leaking....tied the two together.
No problems anymore....seemed to have worked.
Not a drop of water in the basement anymore either.
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I appreciate the bit about how with an interior drain tile system you're still bringing moisture into the basement. Yet, I've worked on several jobs in which this system has worked pretty well. I'm not looking for living space, just reasonably dry storage. It seems to me a good dehumidifier might do the trick.No doubt digging is probably the ultimate solution. . . . still in limbo