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Posted by RickH on August 28, 2007, 4:19 pm
> I bought a house that has a large, fairly high, basement. The walls look
> like solid vertical slabs each about 2 feet wide with a vertical cement seam
> line between them. I can't really tell if they were solid slabs that were
> dropped into place, or if the walls were made by making a form and pouring
> in concrete. In some of the vertical seam lines, at the same level on each
> seam, I can see where a small chip of concrete has broken off the wall and I
> can see a piece of metal about 3/4-inch high that looks like it is the end
> of a metal strip that goes horizontally through the wall. At just one of
> those chip/metal locations below grade level, a very small amount of water
> comes through after heavy rainstorms. The rest of the wall seems to be
> completely dry. I patched the one leak from the inside with a little DryLok
> cement and so far the leak is gone.
>
> My question is, if I wanted to paint the basement walls, is there some
> particular type of paint I should use? I have heard of DryLok paint, but I
> don't know if I should use something like that. The walls are dry, but I
> just wondered if something like DryLok paint would still be a good idea in
> terms of sealing the walls to help prevent any future moisture from coming
> in.
>
> Thanks.
I used 3 coats of the latex-based DryLoc on mine before I remodeled
the basement. It's bone dry, but I had no seepage whatsoever prior, I
just dry-locked it to not have any chance of musty humidity odors. It
might hold your seepage for a year or so, but if you have seepage now
it will be back someday dry-locked or not. Small seepage like this is
easily fixed with an injection that a basement waterproofing
contractor can make from the outside. And that is the proper thing to
do first. But I highly recommend using dry-lock before putting up
walls in any basement remodel.
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