Exterior Waterproofing, Complete How To for Do It Yourself Homeowners, by Apple Drains

hey good morning Chuck here with Apple drains today we're doing a waterproofing job on the exterior wall of this garage first thing we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and start pulling out the bushes this is a job that you know the homeowner really could do themselves I'd say the probably the hardest part of this is actually pulling up your shrubbery if you want to save it and so we've got to dig around each one of these plants pull out a little bit of a root ball so that we can put it back but what's been happening here is that water has come into his garage it's a slab foundation but water had been coming into his garage and he got some termites and those termites they ate all kinds of wood in this corner right here there's a staircase that goes up to a finished upstairs in the garage and termites just destroyed this area so he went ahead and started a small trench you can see the footer exposed right there we need to dig down to that footer along that footer we're going to run gravel perforated pipe which some people call a French drain we'd call it a footer tile because it sits right beside that footer and then we're going to seal that wall with liquid rubber and then we'll put everything back together and trench this line all the way out to the street for the discharge so these guys are making pretty quick work of moving these plants up out of the way then we're just pulling up this landscape fabric so that they can trench an area alongside down to the footer just one shovel wide okay so it pretty much got this trench completed the footer you know down to the footer you can see a good example of the footer here this is the footer a lot of excess mortar on here that's not going to hurt anything will chip some of that off but you can see that there's voids down between the brick the first course of brick and the footer water rises up floods across your footer goes through this wall and then rises on the inside up to floor level which is about right here so it takes a lot of water to get up here but boy once that water starts to travel it just seeps itself right up through and of course then it's finding a way through the wall inside at the floor level so I'm getting ready to start the trencher we're going to start our deep trench right here it's going to run all the way out to the street this is a gravity discharge discharge today light drenching your footer make sure that you trench just to the top of the footer in other words you're about two or three inches deeper than the top of the footer this will allow for the gravel and perforated pipe to set directly beside the footer discharge to daylight what that means is gravity gravity is going to allow that water to flow away from the area and come out on top of the ground so I need to run the trencher to make a deep trench so that gravity can take over remember that your footer is level so water runs around the footer basically it's flooding up and then begins to flow as it rises higher we need a good discharge to get this out and away from the foundation if your excavation is deep you can use a sump pump to lift that water up and pump it to daylight so now we're washing off the footer and the foundation wall real important that we get down in the seam of that right where the foundation wall meets the footer because you can see the mesas here just did a horrible job left lots of mortar all over the place and of course to get that off of there it's just going to make more holes into the foot the foundation so we just wash it off and we'll go ahead and seal all of that with liquid rubber so you can see that water's turned the corner of the garage and it's just flowing right along and basically like I said it just follows your footer remember they'll be gravel down here and it will fill up the pipe and it's going to go all the way out to the street the reason that we like to be down below the footer as you can see if you can see it on the camera and I'll zoom it into the water should never actually get above that footer about the top we're going to have a base of gravel down here a couple of inches and then the course our perforated pipe with holes pointing down so that the water floods up and into the system is carried away as water crosses if it does flood that high that's why we use the liquid rubber and you can see here we haven't washed it off yet but you can see the voids that are all along the very first course of block or brick either one water penetrates underneath and of course will flood upwards into the foundation whether it's a slab or whether it's a crawlspace or it's a basement either one you can see our water just runs right on through here now and of course down here where I've trenched it'll really drop off you can see how deep I am here this is where we ran the trencher along the foundation of your house or your garage it actually runs fairly level water has to fill up and then it'll start to flow if you go too deep you're going to undermine your footer in other words you don't want that water to go underneath that footer and cause some type of a breach a foundation breach in the future so here's what it looks like before you install your pipe you can see again we're cleaning off the footer running water back there on the foundation of the house that water is just pouring out here we've got tremendous fall discharged today light goes into the riprap basically disappears we'll end up down inside this culvert pipe and that culvert you can see the street this is drops off dramatically down to a major storm drain about three houses down after we've washed off the area you know the wall and the footer we like to take our blower and just come back in there and just blow everything dry that just helps speed up the process but it also helps remove any other dirt and mud particles that may you know be lodged in that area always try to remember you want that area to be just as clean as it can be especially down at the scene where the foundation wall meets the footer so unroll in your pipe usually is a two-man operation you can do it by yourself but if one man makes a spool and flips it around while the other guy just pulls on it you'll be able to easily unroll your hundred foot section in just a matter of minutes so we're discharging into the we're discharging into the riprap and you can see basically we're just going to start throwing some dirt on it here to hold it in place then we'll cover up the rest of the line go ahead and set your pipe down in the trench and then when you're ready to actually push it annual step but you'll just walk it down in with your foot corrugated stronger than you think you can put all your bodyweight I'm just stepping through the trench but you can put all your weight on that pipe it's a lot stronger than you think so we'll run 100 feet get out another 100 foot roll and continue on so footer tile is always going to need gravel unless you use the ezflow drain which is really costly it does work a little bit more digging involved but if you're going to run a footer pipe gravel perforated pipe the key to getting a good drainage system it's gonna take about a yard and a half which is about three and a half sorry about two tons of gravel this is number 67 stone you can see that the stone about three-quarters of an inch to an inch and water runs right through so we're putting the basic gravel down just a couple of inches and it's okay if you've got water in the trench that's not going to hurt anything one are still going to flood up through that gravel into your pipe with the holes pointing down it comes in to bottom of the pipe and of course then it flows away from the area and on out to daylight so we start by putting the fiber coated material into the seam and that will harden up really quick and then on this we come back and we use the liquid rubber which is on this side right here and that creates a real good seam on your foundation wall we got a perforated pipes install we're putting our gravel down so we've got our basic gravel down our perforated pipe holes point down now we're bringing the gravel around filling up the trench you need to cover that footer as well as the pipe and she is alway covered all the way back here once we get that all complete we'll take this soil push it back over and take some of it away but most of it actually stays here and then we grade it off to come back this direction so you can see we've got our gravel installed all the way around three sides of this building looking real good liquid rubber is nice and dry gravel a little bit more over here just one spot we need a little bit more gravel and we got this all covered remember gravel is the key to moving water that's subsurface anything that's underground you need something that can water can run through voids of gravel there's the EZ drain made by NDS which has got styrofoam peanuts works the same way basically water is going to flood up through the gravel enter the holes on the bottom of your pipe and the pipe is going to carry it away you can see how much gravel we put in here along this job lots and lots we've covered that footer as well as the pipe a couple of inches above it no problem we've got liquid rubber on the walls this system should last for hundreds of years this system jelastic this system should last for many many years to come we're going to put a fabric barrier over top of this and then we'll backfill so we've got our gravel perforated pipe as a footer pipe footer tile that sits down on the footer backfill with gravel got our soil separator on here with just landscape fabric runs all the way around through some gravel on there just to hold it in place now we're getting ready to backfill and we'll be out of here and maybe about an hour again a good project for the do-it-yourself for the hardest part of your job is right here is actually finishing up because you're getting tired nice to have a good crew these guys work really hard looks really good nice nice work oh and now we just backed a tall little bit of work backfilling is not that hard to do it does take a little work take care not to fill above your soleplate or your siding remember how high that you painted the liquid rubber up on the wall this is where you need to fill to backfill to yes the soil will settle but do not put that soil up on your siding or above the sill plate remember to grade it away from the foundation when you're finished and this will help that water flow away from your area even though you've done a great job of waterproofing do everything you can to get that water away from your foundation and your house put back your landscaping and you're done so we've got it all covered up last little bit of mulch to put on put back our plants this job is done looks really nice real nice can't even tell we were here hey this is Chuck with Apple drains reminding you that if you believe you can do something I guarantee you can do it have a great day

Channel: Apple Drains

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Keywords: basement, exterior, waterproofing, footer pipe, foundation pipe, crawl space, liquid rubber, discharge to daylight, Apple Drains, How to waterproof exterior walls, DIY foundation waterproofing, Charlotte NC, Orlando Florida

Id: ArqQ_oT1VBg

Length: 14min 44sec (884 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 03 2016