Can I use your product on the walls and floor when they are wet or damp ?
Question:
Existing basement has French drain in floor that is supposed to move entering water to the sump pump. Existing floor and Walls have cracks anyware from 1/16 to possibly 1/4 Inch wide and as deep as the foundation approx 3 inches. Floor vary rarly dries. Can I use your product on the walls and floor when they are wet or damp ? The house was built around 1905 w/brick & Morter and has been patched numerous times. Can the hole that the sump pump was in be filled with morter and then coated with your product ?
Answer:
Waterproofing Floors and Walls that have cracks:
To permanently waterproof/seal hairline cracks after removing any previously applied products – apply 2 coats PermaFlex.
To permanently waterproof/seal cracks wider than hairline after removing all
previously applied products – Prime w/PermaFlex, Fill/seal using the LRB/TAV, Surface coat w/PermaFlex.
Use your product on the walls and floor when they are wet or damp:
http://www.sanitred.com/torch.htm
Has been patched numerous times:
Remove any previously applied products
Can the hole that the sump pump was in be filled with morter and then coated
with your product:
The Sani-Tred system will actually render the drain system completely obsolete and useless. Once you’ve waterproofed the basement with the Sani-Tred products, there is no need to be pumping or draining water since there is no way for water, moisture, vapor or problem radon to enter the basement. Floor drains and sump pits will in no way benefit a basement and can not truly “waterproof” any basement. Drains and sumps are designed and installed to “pump water”.
The system you currently have in place is NOT a “waterproofing system” at all; it is a “water mitigation system”. Meaning it merely pumps the bulk of the water that the system catches. This system will NEVER dry up the earth under or surrounding the basement nor can it stop moisture, vapor, radon and in most cases water from entering.
If you waterproof the basement using Sani-Tred products, your current system will remain NEEDLESSLY active and pumping water for no reason. Sani-Tred products make any other so called waterproofing system obsolete.
Most of our customers with such drain systems first waterproof their basement using Sani-Tred products, plug their sump, and never look back. There are many ways to eliminate the use of a sump (all performing identically).
- Some plug their sump, fill their sump pits with concrete and seal the area using Sani-Tred products.
- Some plug their inlet pipe and cap over the sump using Sani-Tred products and plywood.
The plug is shown below and can be easily found at a large hardware
store/distributor:
The application of Sani-Tred products is easy and can be brushed or rolled (even sprayed). Once applied Sani-Tred products will cure as tough as a truck tire while embedded within the surface and on the surface of the concrete creating a 100% waterproof and seamless surface. Eliminating problem radon & mold are other desirable results of this application.
Unlike any other system/product/coating Sani-Tred products are 100% life time warranted, will never bubble, chip, peel, crack, delaminate, or leak for the life of the structure. http://www.sanitred.com/warranty.htm