The first step is a very sticky liquid membrane that is applied by paint roller.
Once this has partially set, but while it is still tacky, the drainboard and fabric are cut from long rolls and applied.
The drainboard looks like a tiny egg crate pattern of little cups that hold the fabric layer away from the wall, creating a pathway that any water can travel down instead of soaking in and going through the wall.
By the end of the day they had done all 3 walls and just needed to come back the next day to touch up the corners. They were a very efficient and friendly crew!
The next step was to set the french drain around the bottom of the wall. First I ordered a large pile of gravel to be delivered, so large it completely blocked the driveway!
While I waited for the gravel, I installed the perforated pipe. This allows any water that makes it through the backfill and to the wall, then down the drainboard, to drain through the gravel and into the pipe that leads out around each side wall to the driveway.
With the help of 2 laborers during the day, and Kyle after school, we buried the pipe with gravel.
The gravel in the back wall had to be loaded into buckets, lifted to the garage roof by bucket, carried across to the back, and dumped over.
This was time-consuming and exhausting, but was finished by the end of the day. I was now ready for my next inspection!
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