How to WaterProof your Basement walls 

I was today years old when I found out you could paint with cement. I feel like there are some decorative ideas you could use this for.

what blew me away most in this was the demonstration and seeing the water seep through those blocks. Nuts.

I only have one word for you. AMAZING!!!!! Makes my top video ever. The instruction, precise, testing perfect. I am going to call Ready set and tell them to watch.

This is incredibly useful info!!! Thanks!!! Can't wait to see the new shed!

GRRRREEAAAT review on an awesome product. Will certainly keep that in mind for the next time I need something like that. Can't wait to see the new shed. So excited for you Michael.

Sir, you did a righteous job. Thank you!!

Great video! Showed me a better way to waterproof my basement interior and exterior wall. Love the barrier test at the end!

Best Home Depot ad man

nice demonstration

Wow, great idea, great video and info. Thanks Michael!!

You’re freaking awesome. Not only did you show us nut you proved it works.

Very good job !! At least will stop flooding in the garage , my garage have been flooded with heavy rain , it was leaking from the wall , I will try to this method !!!!!

I'm doing the closing of my house and this video was very helpful thank you my friend 😊

Awesome. I was just thinking about trying that out and I thought I’d check RU-vid and here we are . Thank you

Very good presentation.

Michael finally sat down to catch up on your vids Great job, especially the test at the end

So glad I'm subscribed to you i was literally omw to home depot and I just prepped my walls and seen this completely did a 360° and went with this for my basement thank you so much saved me money and time and most of all waterproofed my basement better than It was going to be , thanks for the video

Great video about what looks like an amazing product. Thanks for going thru the needed steps to prep & apply. Dryloc alone failed in my application after a few years. Now that I’ve addressed slope & exterior drainage issues, I’m gonna give this product a try. Like one of your other commenters, I’ll be applying Dryloc primer & topcoat on top of the two coats of mortar. Yep, it’s a belt & suspenders approach, but I’ve never regretted “overbuilding”. Your straightforward presentation style has made me your newest subscriber.

im glad i found your video. i built a tilt up house and am looking to waterproof the walls

Awesome test.

Perfect timing, because I suggested your channel for a friend who got flooded during Hurricane Ida

Perfect perfect video Work perfect for me Thank you sir You save me thousands of dollars

I am digging this stuff !!

Cool test at the end.

Ty Michael for this information on this product. It is exactly what I need. Now let's hope my Home Depot has it!

OMG I SO NEED THIS PRODUCT

Dude .. epic video like always .. you sir , have a gift for this ., thanks for always sharing your tips n tricks n fun rapid set projects .. plus damn love that music background .. 🔥

Very good to know. Might be useful in the future. It doesn't solve the problem in my basement, though, water comes in through the windows if it rains too hard.

Awesome Thank you

Interesting product. As far as the replacement shed, the entire video I was secretly rooting for a monolithic RapidSet pour for the foundation and floor.

Great video

Thanks for sharing

Great experiment & great video! And a little lol on the microfiber roll. I think it'd be a bad idea for the same reason you HAVE to wet the wall before applying. It absorbs and retains the water from the mix. ;)

update on my post: I am doing this to my basement walls and floor. Walls are done and floor is almost done. So far it is working out great! I am also going over the rapidset afterwards with dryloc paint as well. This is the driest and nicest my basement has been in years. Big thanks for doing this video.

Thank you! Thank you!! Thank you! ❤

Sounds like a promising means of sealing stucco exteriors or maybe even doing concrete showers/bathrooms.

nice duuuude I am sold

Tilt up concrete is when you build the wall on the ground , then lift it into place.. did some of it when i worked for a concrete company.

Luv this💯🥰

👀 Oh my goodness! I was quoted over $10k to dig up ground around my house in order to stop the water from leaking through my basement walls.... Thank you for sharing this, I had no idea!!!! Thank you Lord!

Thank you Michael for another good video. Here in the North East we have had more rain then normal. So I shared for my friends that might need it. Can't wait to see your new shed. 😊🤗

Thanks!

Thank you for doing this - you just made it so much easier for me to redo the walls on the house I'm buying wherein the sellers won't waterproof the basement and I really like the house. I'm hoping that I'm able to do this like you said. Also you didn't mix the whole bag so how do you know how much water by cup to use to how many cups of the mortar. Thanks a bunch. You just made me feel so much better.

Great content ! Good job, plus bonus points ….. with your in-laws!

i was looking for something to waterseal my son's basement. thank you

Wow !!!!!!! Great video. Excellent attention to detail. Explanation clear and simple. Can't wait to try this product. 👍👍👍 Bravo. BTW.. Can u parge exterior walls with this product???

The pressure at the bottom of the tube is the same regardless of diameter. A 6' tall drinking straw will have the same pressure at the bottom as a 6' tall 6" diameter tube. Looks like a great product. Thanks for the video.

Great video and noted ... family and I are on house hunt and we found a nice place but the foundation has seepage in the crawspace ... as we really like the place we are going for hopefully securing it for ourselves this coming week ... honestly I am hoping people who don't know any better looking at this place will see this and just hide from it so it is an easier thing for us to get as so far we have lost five houses over the last year of our hunting for a place .... as if interest rates and prices of suitable houses was not bad enough ... anything really good has upteen people looking at it and for five cases they have all had more money than we could manage -_- Anyway just wanted to drop the thank you as the cost of the place is steep and paying a professional to do this work so I am happy to do it myself and get to saving us some much needed cash by rolling up my own sleeves to help fix our hopefully 'future home'

Love your videos. You should make a holloween special and make tombstones for yard decorations.

💪🏼👈🏼BEST SON IN LAW EVER👍🏼💥💥

Awesome video!!!!! Great experiment at the end. I thought you were going to put in flow control, but it didn’t look like you needed it.

I'm going to try this on my restroom drywall to get that concrete wall effect and see how that goes 😅 👌

I wonder how this would work as the initial coats when doing a concrete counter top pour using a mold. IE. line the mold with it before adding the rest of the concrete countertop mix and those coats would act as the top/edges of the finished countertop. Then you'd have a waterproof countertop.

Hi Michael, where do I send the check to? I called pond stores about water proofing my two story water fall holding pools, they said we don't do waterfalls, I called pool companies, they said to small of a job no thanks. Than I went to home depot where no one knew anything the rapid set products. Than I called rapid set. A guy named Alex was so kind and helpful. I knew what product to use at that point. I still had to be convinced. Your video convinced me and today I did it. two coats added SAKRETE cement coloring. I now have an amazing waterfall that is natural looking, water proof, good looking and I will tell everyone about you and your you tube video!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well that was a fabulous video. And I know how much work you went to to Norder to put that together just great. I wish I’d seen that before I spent $14,000 waterproofing the walls of my house. The way you did it I probably would’ve spent a couple of hundred. Where were you when I needed you? Great job.

So... while i genuinely loved the whole video, that last part where you showed the with/without effects of hydrostatic pressure takes the Oscar! Fantastic job and VERY clever test!! Would love it if you would add a link in the description to the parging video that you mentioned in the beginning.

Great vid! Highly skeptical of the product. I think most are going to have high expectations without understanding what thre product will actually do. Water must be managed, you'll never be able to control its penetration 100%. Relying on a single approach, especially an applied on product, is a recipe for failure

I would love to see the test vs dry lok

Love it, I wonder if you coated the whole of the test block if the water would remain in the cylinder. Since water follows the path of least resistance, blah, blah, blah.

This is Freak'in Great! This process will save me time and money! Thanks so much for explaining the product and its many uses! I did have one question, what was the surface of the wall before you put on the Mortar mix. I noticed that you wet the walls between coats but not before the first coat, is this correct?

Michael, I understand all the negative comments. Water in the walls will expand and create new problems. Outside is the way to go. If you can't get outside my opinion is this may work for awhile. You're still my favorite on RU-vid! Just did a firetable like yours. Combined 2 of your videos to get what I wanted

If you had a show on HGTV I would watch every episode!

Like it 👍🏻

More videos please! It’s been a month! Maybe you could do a video with Mark McCullough, from this old house. It’d be a blast!

Love all Rapid Set. I use it and swear by it. Folks, this will NOT make your house a boat. Insane is the all of human existence that ignore downspouts properly running away from the house. All roof water needs to be 10 feet away or piped away. I make my living in this concrete type work, but it’s always the ignorance of roof water gutters downspouts and gravity. Now top class builders run the downspout down to the foundation and walk away. Ignorant. The roofing and gutter guys run it right down to the side of the foundation and walk away as if it’s job complete. That is building with cancer. Never finished the job. New learning but it is stupidity. New fix boys like this, ignoring downspouts running the roofs water 10 feet away from the foundation. NEVER NEXT TO IT. This will not make you house a boat. Make sure your downspouts and your gutters are all properly working for the amount of square footage on your roof. I see so many houses the new next homeowners eliminate a downspout is if that would save them money yet three or five years later their entire concrete back porch is sinking 7 inches and they have no idea how it ever happened

Try adding color to the mix and flow control Maybe it can be used as a resurfacer for out side stuff

Surprised theterere are not more negative comments. Please do not do this to your interior foundation. Sure you cant see the water, but it is still there behind it with no way to escape. Water ALWAYS wins. Bare minimum if you do this, weep holes into a gutter type system.

I wonder if this could be used on basement floors as well?

Another great video Michael! Nice job... I am looking for something to seal a flat roof made of cement on a boathouse in the thumb of Michigan. I would love to give this a go, although it has a coat of paint on it. Do you think it would adhere to it? It sounded like that would be a no Bob.

Thirty minutes yea. My first batch set up in 3 minutes. From then on I mixed in a cup and ran like hell to swipe it on before it set.

Great video. Very informative…i addressed my water issue in the basement. However, my masonry bricks are spalling. I would like to fix them. Can I use this product than add 1/2 inch of mortar on top of it? Thx.

jI subscribed to this channel. I was wondering why Michael had not uploaded any new vids then I seen this. You Tube get on the ball we need notifications to follow our heros. Good video. This may be my next spring project. I have a retaining wall that weeps water between the brick and a few cracks. and leaves a muddy trail. I am thinking this might work.

Hello Mike. Great video, thank you. Can you tell us how long that wall was and how much time it took you to do one coat? And, how many 50lb bags did it take to do 2 coats?

I’m going to try this on my aging concrete rock water feature/fall which has cracks. Then maybe I will paint it to make it look like real rock again. The issue is the hydraulic cement is very brittle and cracks again and is expensive and flashes dry too fast

this video deserves an award. the edit, explanation and presentation A+

Love your video! Not that it matters but Hydrostatic Pressure Fluid weight (ppg) x 0.052 x height 8.33 x 0.052 x 5' = 2.16 psi

Hi.. do you need to create an edge ( concrete triangle) between wall and floor as extra protection since this is a weak point for water to penetrate inside.. then apply the product

Great test! Is this a crystalline product?

Sir, Can you apply the waterproofing materials over a previously painted basement wall? Thank you and great video!

I'd like to use this for my shower floor instead of the regular deck mud. I'd also like to use it on one of my bathroom walls as a faux concrete wall....can it trowel out with a very smooth finish?

Could you use this on your sidewalk as a refinisher/ stain blocker/ protector? I know it sounds crazy but in the south with pecan trees and rain, my driveway and walkways get nasty real fast.

Do u have to do the outside around the house as well to keep water from coming inside the bricks and breaking them down from the outside?

Test it by making a shower or other water feature

For humid coastal areas of florida on a poured concrete walls is this recommended from the inside and outside? can i wet install natural stone on the outside?

Michael can you do a basement floor with it

I have a broken water feature for my pool. This is just what I need. I hope the pool chemicals don’r eat through it.

Would I need to patch any cracks first?

I really want to create a wall sized outdoor water fountain with a light for our entryway. Maybe a lions head and a half bowl that doesn’t stick out that far. Could you show us a video on that? Could this be used instead of quick set? Thoughts???

Looks like u could use a trowle and hawk to apply then roll in ..

What about exterior use such as on the concrete coping cap of a chimney, located in the cold Midwest?

This stuff is probably slower to apply than Behr deckover. It's like pushing pudding or cottage cheese with a roller😓. I'm sure it is a great product. Thanks to you and your videos I have been able to convince my tightwad boss to spend a few extra bucks and have had great results. Thank you for your content.

My neighbor with his million dollar house had a complementary shed made from the same materials as the house in his back yard. He would never touch a tool if you held his feet to the fire. He tore the shed down to put in a play set. I think his kid played on it maybe twice.

Can I use this for the floors in my basement and then pour new concrete on top?

Hello. Can this product be used on exterior stairs? Thanks

Would this work over 10+ yr old Drylok walls? Great video!!

This is a great video. I think i have scrape my walls bc we have chipping dry lock with efflorescence. Ive never seen anyone tile a bsmt wall. can you do that to waterproof too?

You think you can use adhesive on this to apply foam insulation?

Can It protect outdoor cement tables, islands and benches wit out a sealer over it?

Can this work for the concert floor around the house???

Great video. I had not heard of this product. I have a stand up crawl space that is partially underground. I am looking for a process to seal the masonry bricks. Would you recommend the Rapid Set, DryLok or something else? thanks