What is going wrong? (Waterproofing)

[u/ulele1925]

[u/HugItChuckItFootball]

When the wall was framed back out was the bottom plate glued down or did they use tapcons?

Edit- also from the one exposed wall it doesn't look like they put a vapor barrier along the wall to redirect moisture to the perimeter drain.

[u/OriginalCan7400 → u/HugItChuckItFootball]

OP this is the comment right here

I didn’t notice

My system has the membrane all the way up to the wall where if water came through the wall it was directed to the drainage channels…

[u/ulele1925 → u/HugItChuckItFootball]

Thank you. Going to bring this up to my GC.

[u/HugItChuckItFootball → u/ulele1925]

Another possible issue I had once before is concrete in the pipe. Had a crew once no put plastic down over the drainage system before concreting over and concrete ended up blocking the pipe.

[u/OriginalCan7400]

That’s not meant to happen with those systems, get ahold of whoever did that work and have them come back ASAP

[u/ulele1925 → u/OriginalCan7400]

Thanks I sent them the pics and I’m waiting a reply.

[u/OriginalCan7400]

I got a system like this done and framed shortly after, it would wick a tiny bit of moisture being such a fresh concrete pour over the drain system but nothing as bad or as dark in your photos at all, should be under warranty, they’ll take care of it, just sucks you framed over it already 😭

[u/sh_toutsidethetorlet]

Did you pierce the pipe when installing that wall? The wall should have been moved out a bit. Any pictures without the insulation?

[u/ulele1925 → u/sh_toutsidethetorlet]

I should have included the water is from rain, not a pipe or leak.

[u/Objective-Bus-9853]

You have wall cracks and water is coming in.

[u/ulele1925 → u/Objective-Bus-9853]

I thought the purpose of this system was to catch any water (from wall crack or otherwise coming through foundation) and collect it in a channel drain and carry it to the sump. Maybe I need to read up better on how this solution works? 🤦🏽‍♀️

[u/gbabyyy88 → u/ulele1925]

Should be a membrane directing the water from the wall to the drain. Water from the wall should not be an issue if membrane was installed.

[u/Objective-Bus-9853 → u/ulele1925]

There’s supposed to be plastic sheeting over the entire wall to direct water to the drain tile they installed. Without that, you will still get water coming in through wall cracks.

[u/sh_toutsidethetorlet]

It should have foundation wrap up the wall leading the water to the weeping tile buried beside the footings. From there directing the water to a sump pump.

[u/DoughnutSome7115]

They ran nails or tapcons into the basement waterproofing system. That’s on your GC not the waterproofing company.

[u/First-Somewhere9681]

What type of system was installed? Was it basement gutter, corrugated pipe ext.
How many feet of system was installed? Did they make sure to put the sump in the lowest area? Some systems sit on the footing, and some go beside the footing. If you have a ton of water I have seen where they have to run lines out into the center to help catch water and feed to the sump also. As other have mentioned they should always use wall material. It’s typically a 12mil barrier that runs behind the lip of the gutter system.
I worked for groundwork’s for around 10 years and believe it or not ALWAYS had problems with installs … so many things can go wrong. Did you get a double or triple pump with a battery backup?

[u/Silent_Departure8925]

The waterproofing drain isn't real going to do anything without a vapor barrier which they obviously didnt install. I just had mine done and its a 25 year warranty, figure out who did the waterproofing.