It is used to deal with damp walls to prevent water ingress and effectively makes the walls watertight on a permanent basis.
Tanking a cellar floor.
This waterproof layer acts as a water repellant that completely waterproofs your cellar allowing it to remain dry when exposed to wet and moist conditions.
Further information on the costs can be found at the basement information centre.
There must be no holes or gaps and certainly no cracks.
To waterproof a damp cellar through tanking can cost as little as 40 80 m.
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Tanking a cellar floor.
It is important to tank the floors of the cellar as well as the walls.
A rough cost for underpinning the walls will come in at around 500 1 000 m.
Cellar tanking liquids brush onto damp walls and floors no smell no solvents.
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.
The same method is followed when tanking a floor.
Most tanking slurries including hydradry see above will act as a damp proof membrane to the floor of any basement or cellar conversion.
Cement based add your water to the tanking powder click to view details or buy ultra tanking slurry powder.
However remember that lowering the floor level to increase headroom costs around 200 300 m.
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.