Dry Lining A Cellar

If your cellar walls are relatively dry you should wet out the substrate fully with clean water making sure it is damp but with no standing or surface water before applying the tanking.

Dry lining a cellar.

One of the most common ways of making your cellar dry and inviting is to add a second false wall so to speak over the wall surface and a popular way that has been used for some time is to install gyproc plasterboards but special ones with have a waterproof layer on one side. When waterproofing basement walls with it brush or roll the paint on thickly enough to fill all the little surface holes then allow it to dry fully before a second coat is applied. The plasterboard is either stuck on the walls or fixed to a timber or steel frame which is attached to the walls. So dry lining was invented and from this has evolved the air gap or cavity drain membrane a dimpled plastic sheet which because of the dimples allows air to freely circulate.

Sealing the walls using a surface coating known as wet basement tanking. I own a terrace with a reasonably dry cellar brick floor and walls approx 15 x15 x7. I am thinking along the lines of a plastic membrane on the floor under a screed say 4 thick insulation. Dry and warm dry linings.

How would one dry line it to expel any dampness. Where you can talk to waterproof people. In order to prevent this from happening the walls must be fully waterproofed. There are several ways to do this.

This prevents moisture from being trapped as in conventional. Below outside ground partly below damp proof course or in a cellar or basement you can sometimes see liquid water its really wet may come and go. Tanking slurry requires at least two coats. Through the use of membrane systems.

It took a whole day but even by the end of the day the basement already felt warmer and dryer. As the drainage channels were being dug out we could see the water puddling at the bottom. Property repair systems is open for business 01626 872886. Cellar tanking products are designed for application onto damp substrates.

Tim installed drainage channels around the perimeter and a membrane lining to the entire floor area. I have been hassled by the wife to turn it into another useable room. Wooden paneling but this tends to rot.