Garage Bricks/Leaking

[iabm12]

Hi all,

We have a single brick garage that we believe the people who owned the house built themselves. The roof has a front pitch and then flat at the back which leaks and we're going to repair but the bottom leaks, too. I think it's because the garage is lower than the block paving path alongside it and the rain/water gets in. I wondered if there are any tips how we could fix this ourselves. We had a builder come look at it but he was very evasive and hasn't got back to us. I've popped some pictures on.

The garage has a side door that has been put in and looks to be a B&Q type door and no lintel. The plan is to have the door changed and the brickwork repointed and tidied, too.

I wasn't sure if it would just be a case of taking out the old mortar and replacing it and then maybe sealing it fro the onside somehow? We plan to paint the floor of the garage and wasn't sure if there was a rubberised paint that would work.

Any advice would be welcome.

 

[jj4091]

You need to seal it from the outside not the inside. Your first pic appears to show a hole through the wall in the bottom LH corner if that is the area that you have the leak then that is what you need to recify first.

 

[noseall]

Hi all,

We have a single brick garage that we believe the people who owned the house built themselves. The roof has a front pitch and then flat at the back which leaks and we're going to repair but the bottom leaks, too. I think it's because the garage is lower than the block paving path alongside it and the rain/water gets in. I wondered if there are any tips how we could fix this ourselves. We had a builder come look at it but he was very evasive and hasn't got back to us. I've popped some pictures on.

The garage has a side door that has been put in and looks to be a B&Q type door and no lintel. The plan is to have the door changed and the brickwork repointed and tidied, too.

I wasn't sure if it would just be a case of taking out the old mortar and replacing it and then maybe sealing it fro the onside somehow? We plan to paint the floor of the garage and wasn't sure if there was a rubberised paint that would work.

Any advice would be welcome.

Lower the outside ground level.

It's too late to include detailing that can prevent storm water seepage, now that it's built.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Put a long-ish spirit level on that path, see where it's funneling the rain. Also check around the garage door. Where you're seeing the wet may not be where it's getting in.

A garage will always be a bit damp around the bottom, as its floor is below the DPC. But if you're talking running water then that's different.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I think it's because the garage is lower than the block paving path alongside it and the rain/water gets in.

Your only way to solve that, is to give the water somewhere lower to go, than the base concrete slab, so it drains out, and away, rather than in.

Remove a line of blocks, and dig a channel down, and alongside the base concrete slab. You will need to give the water run-off somewhere to drain, maybe make it a French drain.