This is a tall two story plus basement commercial building. Old enough that the below grade basement walls are poured concrete showing the outlines of the ? x 8’s that were used for the forms.
Top of basement wall is about a foot above grade. All brick above that.
Half the basement is finished (suspended ceiling, painted concrete walls, carpet) and most of the time it is very dry. Even with torrential rain it stays dry.
But if the storm blows from the east then water leaks in at the base of the east basement wall and soaks the carpet pretty good.
About twenty feet behind the building (to the east) is a railroad track and the ground slopes down to the building from the track.
There are places along the exterior top of the basement wall where a bit of the concrete is broken off, but right above the leak location it is sound. There used to be a first floor window directly above the leak location that has been removed and filled with brick. This is about eight feet above the top of the poured basement wall. In that area there appear to be several opennings in the mortar. None of them very large, but clearly visible.
Where the leak comes in in the basement (at the base of the wall), there sits a couple of desks. There are printers on the desks. The guy says the last time they had water on the carpet, there were drops of water on top of the printers, but no sign of wetness in the ceiling tiles at all.
Is there any chance that filling the holes in the mortar will stop the leak?? Product suggestions? Any thoughts on how the printers got wet??
Thanks.
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