How to Keep a Basement 100% Dry [On-Location]

[Music] now our flow channel is all set up and this is probably the best drainage tool that you'll ever find in the right hands that is if you know what you're doing with it it allows us to customize every aspect of your basement waterproofing system depending on how wide your footing is standard footings about 16 inches wide sometimes you run in there 24 inches wide or even 36 inches wide we're able to lengthen or narrow down to make sure that our flow Channel and that's this drain board with with the pockets in it that we're able to fit it to the exact size of your footing and your foundation so there's an enormous amount of drainage here when the water does come across underneath the wall and across the footing instead of pulling up and having your floor sit in water it has a drop of about several to ten inches that goes down to our pipe and stone keeping that entire area between the bottom of your floor and the bottom of your footing completely free of water now we're down to the cement process or what we call our super Krete floor reconstruction process if you look at the walls we've treated it with our super slurry product this product has a crystalline ingredient in it that when you apply it to a wall it'll actually crystallize through the wall from the inside to the outside and as it does it fills up every nook and cranny and turns the walls non-porous so if the walls are non-porous they're not going to absorb any of the water a lot of what we talked about is this the soil in the Northeast has a little bit of an acidic quality to it that can affect your walls when water absorbs into your walls it pulls a little bit of the soil in with it along with that a little bit of it acidic quality and it reacts with your walls and that's why you'll see some of that white powdery substance on your walls we do away with that with our super slurry product but it doesn't just topically stay on the wall it actually grows into the concrete will crystallize from the inside all the way through to the outside it grows towards moisture fills up every nook and cranny every pocket of the concrete wall and makes it not absorbent basically turns the wall into a what proof barrier now that same crystal and ingredient is in the product we use to resubmit the floor back to its original thickness too and that's called super creep has that crystal and ingredient so that we're gonna fill this area in with our super Krete product and then you can see we have our engineering tabs or engineering spacers if you will and that crystallizing will happen and occur and grow right into our our spacers and into the main body of the floor basically reconstructing the floor back into one piece again most importantly back to the original thickness of the floor so that you're gonna have your floor back over onto the footing be a part of the engineering tabs giving that structural integrity back to the foundation the floor is going to be poured so it's right up flush against the wall again but because if you look at our at our our flow channel basically is a tie-in to the floor drainage which is that four-inch corrugated perforated ABS pipe it's packed in stone it's pitched one inch every 10 feet around to a heavy-duty commercial pump and then pumped up up and out away from the foundation so that it won't be recycled again we have a whole bunch of this stuff and it sits out but this is where that would sit where we're managing the water is going to be way underneath here and go down and then drop down to where the real drainage is but if this is your only drainage you're gonna be putting a little stone out here plus the floor would be over to here you're just going to be putting a little stone next to here and then resubmitting back over top and it limits you to about an inch of floor and that's a problem because Building Code states that if you removed part of your floor if you put it back you have to put it back to a thickness of three and a half inches what you just can't do with that so you're looking at a code violation with a lot of these type of systems that sit on top of your footing now if you have a issue with your basement feel free to call us at American dry basement systems or to look us up on the web at American dried dot-com thanks for watching

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Length: 4min 17sec (257 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 15 2019