This is an informative guide to planning, designing and constructing a waterproof basement based on the 40 basements I built in the last 7 years and many years on big construction sites before that.Recently I have been studying concrete at post-graduate level and have decided to stop building and concentrate just on helping customers construct their basement out of waterproof concrete. Waterproof concrete is the only defence available: firstly, that can cope with any volume of water against it and, secondly, is never destroyed by those trades following on from the people that fitted it. Waterproof concrete is also the best value for money of any defence against water ingress and my other web site, waterproofconcrete.co.uk can save you money compared to all our competitors.So I have decided to make available to you all the important lessons I have learned constructing waterproof basements over the past 20 years or so. It is here for your benefit. I have pages and pages of useful information here free to view and print but not distribute. My intention is you should enjoy them, save yourself a lot of money, but come to me to buy chemical. I am available on an hourly rate to assist, train, supervise and advise; but the two web sites together will hopefully be sufficiently complete for many of you not to have to pay for any of my time. There is many a good-sounding yarn spun out there in the marketplace, especially by ICF salesmen. Now that I no longer deal in formwork I can explain why and how some of these stories are untrue. Afterwards you can make your own mind up. If you still have further queries then please call me. Most people planning a basement would say they want to take a belt and braces approach to waterproofing. Therefore, for the time being, please accept you will use waterproof concrete, you will plan to construct a waterproof basement and enjoy everything else I have to say. I hope you learn from every page. Then you can do your shopping around with more knowledge under your belt and increased confidence. I think Waterproof Concrete Ltd now has the best basement waterproofing solution anywhere. I say 'now' because over the 7 years I pushed every boundary constructing basements, I tried every type of product, I suffered every type of failure and I bore all the cost - so you don't have to. Therefore do not be put off if any companies who feel I tell you within these pages not to use tell you about my disasters. I tell you what not to use only based upon my experience. It wasn't always pretty. Use that to your advantage rather than listening instead to someone who never made a mistake on a building site. It only means they were hardly ever on a building site whereas I was for most of my working life, and at 56 that means a lot of years.
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