Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Feb 02, 2016 4:00 pm If moisture is getting into the masonry wall eliminate source of moisture by properly tuckpointing any cracks or missing mortar in the wall or patching concrete with a latex concrete patch, clean out gutters and downspouts, caulk joints around windows and doors with a butyl rubber caulk. If moisture is migrating through the wall from the outside (e.g., basement wall), apply waterproofing to outside of wall. Remove all efflorescence and loose flaking, chalking paint with a wire brush, scraping or power washing before repainting. Clean area with a trisodium phosphate cleaning solution and rinse with clean water. Let completely dry and paint with a high quality latex house paint. Hope this helps you Versaloc is a mortarless besser block system that still needs a properly engineered footing. If you just do a 400x200 footing it will fail in time. At 17m long you need it… 1 18186 Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 6917 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Don't think they are designed for double brick. WA has a particular way of building and unfortunately that's the way a large amount of sills are finished. 3 7014 |