Shadowblues
2018-01-10 10:48:35
- #1
Hello everyone,
my sister-in-law has bought a house. Built around 1960. Due to family growth, a room now needs to be placed in the basement (potentially a bedroom or a children's room). There is currently a hobby room here (wooden ceiling, wooden panels on the walls,...). In other rooms, the basement wall is damp – what we will find behind the panels remains to be seen. I also assume a damp wall here. The house is to be insulated from the outside soon – above ground. The basement part protruding from the ground will be included – it will be wrapped airtight. Now it’s about the basement wall that is in the ground. I would be in favor of digging outside, applying a clean sealing and insulation, and sealing the wall against the floor slab with an injection system. Due to financial constraints, my sister-in-law assumes that the room should be sealed against moisture from the inside in order to use it as a living space. The moisture should thus remain in the wall. The building material is currently unknown; we are trying to find something in the old documents.
I would like to know your opinion on this. We assume that the solution created now should last at least 20 years.
Best regards
Roger
my sister-in-law has bought a house. Built around 1960. Due to family growth, a room now needs to be placed in the basement (potentially a bedroom or a children's room). There is currently a hobby room here (wooden ceiling, wooden panels on the walls,...). In other rooms, the basement wall is damp – what we will find behind the panels remains to be seen. I also assume a damp wall here. The house is to be insulated from the outside soon – above ground. The basement part protruding from the ground will be included – it will be wrapped airtight. Now it’s about the basement wall that is in the ground. I would be in favor of digging outside, applying a clean sealing and insulation, and sealing the wall against the floor slab with an injection system. Due to financial constraints, my sister-in-law assumes that the room should be sealed against moisture from the inside in order to use it as a living space. The moisture should thus remain in the wall. The building material is currently unknown; we are trying to find something in the old documents.
I would like to know your opinion on this. We assume that the solution created now should last at least 20 years.
Best regards
Roger