HOW TO DryLok a Basement Wall / AND WHY
Moisture leaching into your basement can be a common problem, especially in older homes. In this video we talk about when DryLok is appropriate and when it is not. The we give you some directions on how to do it.
Hope you enjoy the video. And if you have a project similar to this...don't be afraid, don't procrastinate.
Transcript:
How to DryLock a Basement Wall/ and Why?
Okay so this is Geoff with Home Rehab Pros and today we're going to DryLok a basement wall that tends to get a little excessive moisture.
So what we're going to do before we DryLok this is we take a look at the wall here, you can see where some of this from moisture has gotten chalky from the original paint so we need to clean this off before we apply that DryLok or it's just not going to work. So the key to the success of DryLok and locking out that moisture is a clean surface, as clean as you can possibly get. So we're going to clean this up and then we're going to show you how to put DryLok on a basement wall.
Okay so we've cleaned this wall up. It's been prepped and cleaned to be able to put the DryLok on here. Now just a couple of notes of interest is dry lock is not a stop leak. If you have a leak in your foundation, DryLok will not correct that. DryLok what it does, it will seal your wall and it will help keep moisture from coming in your basement but it is not a stop leak.
So we're going to be ready to do this here. We've cleaned it all up and what normally I’d do is when we're putting a DryLok in the basement is I'll come up two block, I'll go around two high and then we'll come out to the edge here. That way it covers it covers the joint from the floor to the block, so that's a good practice to do. Again you're trying to seal the moisture that sometimes you get in a wall. And we'll address leaking basements in another video because a lot of leaks are very very fixable, just understanding why your basin might be leaking as the key to that.
But anyway we're going to get started here, so what I'm going to do first, as you see we have the DryLok that we're using. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to start in that joint. I've got a big brush. DryLok is heavy, so we like to have a big brush to be able to work that in. So we're going to do this, we're going to start it here. We're going to make sure that that joint is filled in.
See we're going to come off that edge. Pull it in there. Okay so once we do this I've got a good coat in there then what I'll do is I’ll lay that down, that will soak this roller. Again DryLok is heavy so we want to make sure that we soak…it's a heavy nap. I usually use that because of the block, that way we get good coverage. So we're going to go and we're going to start this, we're going to lay it on and right down into what I just painted with the brush and make sure your coverage is good because of how porous block can tend to be, you want to make sure you fill all the pores that may be open.
Keep your brush handy there just to make sure you can go back over and touch it up. Plenty of it on here, just lay it on there really nice and heavy. Let's see how that's going. All right so that's what we do. So what we're going to do is we're going to finish this and we'll show you what we did and we'll talk to you then.
Okay so this is the end result of DryLoking this wall and looks pretty good. It turned out nice, but remember we want to keep in mind we did the whole wall here because if you recall we scraped off high here so that meant there was moisture coming through that brick or block. So we did the entire wall because of that and the window here tells us that the ground actually comes up to about here, so what happens in the winter with the freeze and the thaw and so on, you'll have moisture sometimes come through that wall and that's why doing this right is important because that will help keep that moisture under control.
So again we use the heavier nap because block walls are porous and you can see that so if you use a lighter nap on your roller sometimes it's much harder to get the coverage on there so the bigger brush, the the right nap- we used a three-quarter- and put plenty on there, make sure that that roller is nice and soaked with that DryLok and then you can have the results that you're looking for.
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This is Geoff with Home Rehab Pros.
Thanks for watching.
I'm sorry…This why we have edit buttons. Brian tells you that all the time right.
Right.
This is why we have added buttons. I may just keep this in there though because this is a hoot.
Just totally psych my mind. But anyway…
This is Geoff with Home Rehab Pros.
This is Geoff with Home Rehab Pros. Thank you.
Let's do that part again. So this is Geoff with Home Rehab Pros. Thanks for watching.
Such a knucklehead. Anyway okay. We good?
I'm sorry.
You know Robin suggested that we do the bloopers at the end of the video.
Oh my gosh. All right. Ready?