Cellar tanking liquids brush onto damp walls and floors no smell no solvents.
Tanking a cellar floor.
It is used to deal with damp walls to prevent water ingress and effectively makes the walls watertight on a permanent basis.
Further information on the costs can be found at the basement information centre.
Ensure however that the same preparation process is applied to the floor as for the walls.
It is important to tank the floors of the cellar as well as the walls.
We strongly recommend that you tank the cellar floor once you have fully tanked all of the walls.
However remember that lowering the floor level to increase headroom costs around 200 300 m.
A rough cost for underpinning the walls will come in at around 500 1 000 m.
There must be no holes or gaps and certainly no cracks.
Cellar or basement tanking is the process where a liquid waterproof coating known as tanking slurry is applied to both the floor and walls of a cellar.
You should still apply two coats horizontally and then vertically lapping over the fillet joint.
To waterproof a damp cellar through tanking can cost as little as 40 80 m.
Tanking a cellar floor.
Cellar tanking also known as basement tanking is the term used for the process of applying a waterproof layer that acts as a coating on the walls and floor of a cellar or basement.
Most tanking slurries including hydradry see above will act as a damp proof membrane to the floor of any basement or cellar conversion.
The same method is followed when tanking a floor.