Sealing perimeter insulation

  • Erstellt am 2025-07-26 06:16:23

Cantaloupe

2025-07-26 06:16:23
  • #1
Hello dear experts,

I live in a new building, completed about a year ago, timber frame construction.
I have had a mold smell in the living room for two weeks (which gets worse when it rains), so the developer and I now have to start investigating the causes.
What worries me a bit is the sealing of the perimeter insulation (or base insulation - I am not quite sure about the definition). I don't know if everything has been done correctly or if moisture can rise into the walls/under the screed due to missing sealing.

Can you look at the photos and tell me if this has been done correctly?

On the XPS boards there is a thin layer of sealing slurry (?) and on top of that a dimpled membrane (which is not yet installed everywhere) and then comes the soil. I assume that I still need a gravel layer here as drainage to divert the water.

Thank you very much.
 

derdietmar

2025-07-26 16:06:40
  • #2
Hello,

there is no sealing visible in the photos at all. The shell sealing was not carried out.

Best regards
 

Allthewayup

2025-07-26 21:30:02
  • #3
I have no expertise in wooden prefabricated houses but the fabric of the exterior plaster draws moisture from the ground like a wick. There is no sealing visible in the photos at the transition from XPS to wood. Are there no pictures of this? In our solid house it looked like this.
 

Similar topics
11.10.2017Sealing on Styrodur insulation?14
11.11.2017Sealing terrace exit / door in double-shell masonry10
22.07.2017Horizontal sealing of the base slab24
04.09.2017Sealing the garage with a concrete floor?21
21.10.2017Sealing the base slab before the roof is installed19
02.09.2019Properly installing the dimple membrane, base sealing, drainage?15
15.04.2019Missing sealing in bathrooms detected after 16 years.13
12.07.2023Sealing of floor-to-ceiling windows from the outside74
15.05.2021Sealing garden wall to neighbor10
06.07.2021Sealing of my clinker facade16
10.07.2021Is basement waterproofing available in the old building from 1971?12
15.07.2021Balcony slope and waterproofing costs12

Oben