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12-12-06, 05:45 PM
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any builders?? my breezeblocks are leaking
as we have had a spot of rain latley
 there is water on my garage floor, it looks like the single breeze-block wall is soaking up the rain & its leaking into the garare  
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12-12-06, 06:07 PM
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You need to either render the out side and paint it or just paint it with masonry paint to seal it in Breeze blocks are very porous!!
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12-12-06, 06:11 PM
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what sort of **** biluds a garage with breeze blocks?
as said either render it or paint it to seal the breeze blocks
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12-12-06, 06:31 PM
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  Cheers for the suggestion Billy. When I say my garage, its more of the landlords garage. Might have a word to her about sealing the floor. But I would much prefer if she would just move all the crap at the back so I can use the whole space. Oh well... |
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12-12-06, 06:40 PM
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12-12-06, 06:42 PM
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my garage floor needs painting
i know that dust well.
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12-12-06, 06:52 PM
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Right, for a start, single skin buildings WILL leak... why do you think they build houses with two skins ?
but as pointed out above, there are a few things that can be done to help prevent the problem, but at the end of they day it wont stop it 100%.. as if you have ever seen the inside of the external wall ona house when its raining heavy, you will know the water will track streaight through.... my bets are, its not breeze blocks, or thermalite blocks.. as if someone built a garage with them, then they deserve to be shot.. they are probably bog standard 4" concrete blocks...for a start, you can render it inside and outside.. but, paint the outside when its done.. this will add some extra protection... there are some specialist chemicals you can add to the inside coat which will waterproof the stuff even more than your bog standard waterproofer you add to render... people dont tend to build garages twin skined anymore, as it will end up being a good 300mm at least smaller than you could get it with just single skin... and thats a fair whack to loose if you aint got the room to build on in the first place.... but then they leak like hell in bad weather... |
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