I need to know which is a better method, Spray rubberized membrame with plastic barrier or Platon menbrane? Thank you, Patchy.
Depending on the surface, but generally I would recomend the Platon system, thank you for your question.
Patrick LeCours
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The floor of my garage is starting to crumble in the areas that the winter salt dripped from the car. Is ther ... |
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In my basement, I get a lot of mold on the finished drywall. We clean it, but it comes back. Outside the hou ... |
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I have an outdoor screened house.
It has a vinyl roof.
I just power washed it, and now I'd like to apply som ... |
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Hi , I have a 100 years old house that looks like the foundation is made of stones and mortar. My problem is ... |
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we have a masonry (block) crawl space with moisture problems...we had an engineer review the issues and they r ... |
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My wife and I have been living in our newly built home for a year and a half now and we have noticed that a sm ... |
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my foundation leaks through the concrete just below a window. what are the steps I need to do to properly seal ... |
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HI THERE, I HAVE A CRACK IN MY BASEMENT WALL, LOOKS LIKE WHERE THE FORMS CAME TOGEATHER, IT RUNS FROM THE FLOO ... |
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Mr. Foundation,
We have lived in our 35yr old house for 6 years and have recently eliminated the root cause o ... |
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HI....I purchased a new home almost 3 yrs ago and during the past 2 heavy rains I had water seeping thru the f ... |
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I had a foundation leak and fixed it myself, with some advice from Ren, but the water has left damage on the f ... |
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What's the proper procedure for strapping and insulating our basement walls? We don't know what's better, sty ... |
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I bought this house about 2 monthes ago. Now I found 1 side of the basement leak badly when it rain hard, whic ... |
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I had G&M homes build my home in Carleton Place in the Mississippi Quays subdivision 7 years ago so I would ha ... |
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I have an indoor inground pool but decided i didn't want the pool anymore so i drained it but dicided to leave ... |
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My basement is leaking and the leak appears to start right at the junction where the exterior bricking meets t ... |
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Back in May my basement flooded due to a heavy rain and a prolonged hydro outage causing water to flood in thr ... |
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We are in the process of building and my uncle wants us to put tar, visqueen and a foam board on the outside o ... |
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I have recently purchased a new home and one of the walls in the garage has a crack and it leaks. My question ... |
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A few years ago we had our concrete front step raised using fine gravel and paving bricks to overcome flaking, ... |
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I live in an old house with a very cold kitchen floor in the winter. It is so cold that if we leave a bag of ... |
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Dear Patrick,
I am building a cottage just north of Ottawa and I would like to put either a crawl space or ... |
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I'm going to build a new house with 10' concrete foundation.
It's a 2st. plan with 1800sq/ft
on the main flo ... |
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I have dug down to the weeping tiles (cement style tile) on a corner of our house to patch a crack that casued ... |
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I live in Windsor, ON. This is a problem with many homes in my area. I have a driveway that buts up against ... |
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Hello
I have one large and about 4 - 5 smaller 'cracks' in my basement floor.
A few years ago one of my 'con ... |
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we have recently bought a house and have since found out the basement leaks(in heavy rain).we tore down all th ... |
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I just purchased a home on a lagoon with 60' of bulkhead. At times of very high tide and regular high tide, I ... |
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Hi Patrick ; I have a single story home 37 years old that every spring when the ground is still froze and the ... |
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We just moved in! We were informed of drain tile replacement due to problems with flooding. However, there see ... |
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We bought a 50 year old house that has 2 hairline cracks that leaked water in the springtime. I've heard of a ... |
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Hello Patrick,
I am writing to ask you what I should do/have done about a water leak into both my garage an ... |
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Hello Patrick,
I wrote to you yesterday but I think that I gave you an invalid e-mail address.
The quest ... |
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We have a problem in our cold storage room in our basement. Some of the bricks in the basement along the outsi ... |
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My house is 31 years old I have a block foundation and my floor and walls leak my basment is not finished. I h ... |
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I have a problem with water seeping through the walls and floor of my basement. I have called in some people ... |
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Dear Patrick,
My husband and I leave in Burlington, Ontario. We moved into a house built in 1987. The basem ... |
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I have a block foundation built on top of rock in the Chelsea area. I understand that some of the problem I h ... |
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I live in a one-year old home and since day one if it rains we get water leaking into our basement from the to ... |
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Two things Patrick, I have just had a house built and discovered a crack in the foundation wall. The crack is ... |
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Dear Patrick
My house is about 22 years old. My wife and I have been in it for 11. When we bought it we not ... |
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Hello, Mr LeCours
Our house is 55 years old and the foundation is blocks of some sort (I'm guessing cement) ... |
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Hi,
I notice some fine cement dust along the bottom of the cement blocks and the floor in the basement......i ... |
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Dear Mr. LeCours, We have a 2 yr old 2-storey brick house with a full concrete foundation. The front double d ... |
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Hi ... we have a crack in our foundation. Two years ago the condo corp dug down on the outside and sealed it. ... |
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Patrick, I was getting ready to finish my basement until I noticed a hairline crack in the concrete basement w ... |
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Hello Patrick,
I live in the Constance Bay area where our home sits on the highest point and built on a san ... |
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Hi Pat,
We bought a 40yr. old house last fall which we also had inspected. There was a visible crack (vert ... |
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Hi Mr. Lecours,
We recently have bought an older house. The foundation is made of cider block and there are ... |
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My home was built with a treated wood foundation. The walls were built on top of the floor slab instead of ou ... |
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Hi Patrick.. I am building a new home in what has turned out to be wet land. Because of this the foundation wi ... |
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Hello,
I bought a cottage and it has a new concrete block basement as well as the blue plastic insulator on t ... |
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Hi Mr. LeCours
Our house in South Ottawa is only fifteen years old.
During the spring melt, water was enteri ... |
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Hello, I own a house that was built in 1884. The basement walls are stone and concrete, and they are crumblin ... |
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Mr. LeCours, I live in a house that is over 50 years old. With the thaw from the winter I started to get some ... |
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We have a sugar maple tree that is well placed to provide shade to one side of the house where there are 2 win ... |
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Our stone foundation has just been excavated. We want to waterproof it, what material would be best used on a ... |
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When building a cottage, which is not on city services - are weeping tiles necessary?
Are there other water ... |
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i had a new additon added to my house and where the two foundations (new and old) meet. i made a small hole ar ... |
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I need to know if there are any problems / complaints with using Delta-fl on basement floors and then having t ... |
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I need to know which is a better method, Spray rubberized membrame with plastic barrier or Platon menbrane? T ... |
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eHi Patrick,
We have noticed in our basement during the summer months (mostly) that there is a build up of wa ... |
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Patrick,
My wife and I have been living in our current house for a year and a half. It is a townhouse (app ... |
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We have an 14 year-old house that has a 1/4" crack running from the top of the foundation down to the floor. ... |
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what do you use to seal the walls from leaking water,what type of stone to use to back fill ... |
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Hi,
We are trying to determine for sure whether our weeping tile around our semi-detached home are now failin ... |
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hello my name is deryk i live in a older home in the montreal area the sits on a poored foundation not rock pi ... |
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I have a 18 year old house with a hairline crack in poured concrete foundation wall. In spring, the carpet alo ... |
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After very heavy rains, water seeps out of the concrete cinder block walls in my cold room. The seepage only ... |
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We have 2 cracks in our foundations and have been advised 2 methods of repair. Is doing it from the inside or ... |
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I purchased a block foundation home built in 1956. This home was purchased April 2005. The inspector said the ... |
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Hi Patrick..I have a problem with my north facing basement wall IT LEAKS. In the spring I dug down to the weep ... |
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Sir,
Each winter for the past three years the water level in our basement has risen to just below floor lev ... |
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I have water slowly seeping up from what looks like below the basement floor right where it meets the block fo ... |
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Had some audio equip being installed at the house and they went to go down into the crawl space to fine 8 inch ... |
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Hello,
We have water that seeps into our basement when it is wet but we can't tell where it is coming from. ... |
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I built a 24 by 24 garage 2 years ago. I was wondering what is the best way to stop the water from coming thro ... |
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We are building a new home and it seems like we are on or near a water source (not near a river, but water in ... |
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Hello Patrick,
I bought a house back in December 2004. The basement was unfinished and cold. We decided to p ... |
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Hello;
We purchases a new home about 2 years ago. Multiple hairline cracks appeared within months: 3 in t ... |
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Hi,i have a old colonial(1882) with a stone foundatiou that seeps water .Is there a repair that can be done to ... |
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Dear Mr. LeCours,
I have a new house purchased in March 2004 and have a hairline crack in the foundation whic ... |
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Morning Patrick,
I'm sorry if this email is a repeat, the site indicated that my session had expired.
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