Small water intrusion in one basement room consistently - ONLY after it rains for a few days in a row. Leaking cove joint?
I noticed soon after I moved into my new home (built 1990) that the guest bedroom in the basement was wet. I ripped up the peel and stick flooring and just leave it like this for now. The amount of water you see here is the same amount I say when I ripped up the floor. The concrete has no damage and this has presumably been going on for long before I bought the house. What you see in the photo is the most amount of water I get in that room and it ONLY happens after back to back days of HEAVY rain. Almost like the ground under my deck gets oversaturated and then the water starts seeping into the cove joint of the foundation. It's so little water that I just let it evaporate and it's gone in a few days but I would like to put flooring back down at some point... You can tell it's coming in from presumably the cove joint as it just spreads horizontal and the drywall and all verticled surfaces are completely dry. Not sure if I can fix this easy or if I should just leave it and put down tile or something. My understanding is that coating the floor itself would just push the water up and out the next weakest link so it would be useless? I have a back deck and I looked under with a flashlight during a very heavy rain and I don't see any dips against the foundation where water was or could be pooling or anything and seeping down the foundation wall. submitted by /u/notes_of_nothing [link] [comments]
| | I noticed soon after I moved into my new home (built 1990) that the guest bedroom in the basement was wet. I ripped up the peel and stick flooring and just leave it like this for now. The amount of water you see here is the same amount I say when I ripped up the floor. The concrete has no damage and this has presumably been going on for long before I bought the house. What you see in the photo is the most amount of water I get in that room and it ONLY happens after back to back days of HEAVY rain. Almost like the ground under my deck gets oversaturated and then the water starts seeping into the cove joint of the foundation. It's so little water that I just let it evaporate and it's gone in a few days but I would like to put flooring back down at some point... You can tell it's coming in from presumably the cove joint as it just spreads horizontal and the drywall and all verticled surfaces are completely dry. Not sure if I can fix this easy or if I should just leave it and put down tile or something. My understanding is that coating the floor itself would just push the water up and out the next weakest link so it would be useless? I have a back deck and I looked under with a flashlight during a very heavy rain and I don't see any dips against the foundation where water was or could be pooling or anything and seeping down the foundation wall. [link] [comments] |
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