Basements

Sansom fields many enquiries regarding leaking basement walls and floors. Leaking is likely to be due to:

• Failed tanking membrane beneath the ground on the outside face
• Movement within the basement wall and floors causing stress on the tanking membrane
• Penetrations for cables or drainage pipe work being inadequately sealed.
• Blocked field drainage systems

A range of solutions are available, but by far the best solution is to excavate and apply a meaningful tanking membrane to exterior wall, and ensure ground drainage systems are functioning.

Repair systems from the interior face include:

• Grouting voids beyond the wall
• Injecting resins into the matrix of the walls and floor
• Coating of the walls with a specialised epoxy coating