First off brush off any loose material from the basement walls.
Old concrete basement wall repair.
A professional foundation crew will construct a one sided concrete form inside the old basement perimeter and pour a new concrete wall.
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Mix the quikwall sbc using 1 1 4 to 1 1 2 gallons of clean water to each 50 pound bag of material.
To permanently patch the crack we used an epoxy injection system from polygem called the liquid concrete repair kit 60.
Wash the walls with an acidic solution check on amazon to neutralize the salt completely and allow to dry for a few hours.
Apply small amounts of water over a short period until it has absorbed water deep into the wall.
Use an epoxy injection system for basement wall crack repair we repaired a foundation wall which had an 8 ft long crack that leaked water into the basement during periods of heavy rainfall.
Mist the wall with water and then apply a coat of thoroseal with a latex additive check on amazon.
My home 60 yrs old and built on a concrete foundation.
The wall needs to be moist so that the old concrete won t leach moisture out of the mortar that you apply and cause the repair to fail.
The house is on a creek and with the rapid construction in the surrounding areas i have experienced basement flooding in 2008 2011 and 2013.
Always add the powder to the water.
Injecting a typical wall crack with an epoxy or urethane resin is done under pressure pushing the material from the inside all the way to the outside.
The only way to repair foundation wall cracks successfully is by the injection process.
The injection process fills the crack from top to bottom from inside to outside.
If your walls are made of poured concrete clean any cracks and then repair them with mortar hydraulic cement source.
Old house web or polyurethane.
Clean all walls thoroughly to remove all paint oil dirt and other foreign matter that can interfere with the bonding of quikwall surface bonding cement.