Tin Can
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Hi All
Having been inspired by this forum (been looking in on it everyday for the last year) I decided to clear out my 22ft x 12ft garage and turn it into a little mini DIY workshop (no serious ambitions just DIY). Spent £80 on masonery paint, got a couple of 3 metre kitchen worktops and made up a couple of benches and kitted it all out to a diy/hobby welding level. Anyway i have always had during the wet winter months a little bit of damp creeping in at the back of the garage but having chopped down a laurel tree at the back of the garage that also afforded some rain protection by way of its branches / leaves overhanging over the garage roof it has now become more severe. As the garage is 'dug' into the garden it is surrounded by clay/soil upto about a 4 foot high on 3 walls, whoever built the garage had taken the precaution of placing a a think plastic membrane sheet to stop damp but what they have appeared to have done is to tuck the membrane in between the concrete base and the brick wall and due to the current rainfall is now seeping into the garage where the memebrane sperates the concrete floor and 1st brick course.
Any ideas how to 'plug' this leak as i have been quite chuffed with how i have kitted out the garage and feel it has all been for nothing
Mark
Having been inspired by this forum (been looking in on it everyday for the last year) I decided to clear out my 22ft x 12ft garage and turn it into a little mini DIY workshop (no serious ambitions just DIY). Spent £80 on masonery paint, got a couple of 3 metre kitchen worktops and made up a couple of benches and kitted it all out to a diy/hobby welding level. Anyway i have always had during the wet winter months a little bit of damp creeping in at the back of the garage but having chopped down a laurel tree at the back of the garage that also afforded some rain protection by way of its branches / leaves overhanging over the garage roof it has now become more severe. As the garage is 'dug' into the garden it is surrounded by clay/soil upto about a 4 foot high on 3 walls, whoever built the garage had taken the precaution of placing a a think plastic membrane sheet to stop damp but what they have appeared to have done is to tuck the membrane in between the concrete base and the brick wall and due to the current rainfall is now seeping into the garage where the memebrane sperates the concrete floor and 1st brick course.
Any ideas how to 'plug' this leak as i have been quite chuffed with how i have kitted out the garage and feel it has all been for nothing
Mark