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HOW TO FIX WATER SEEPAGE ISSUE BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE?

17, February 2023

Imagine you have toiled and with your hard earned money, you have built the home you so desired. You have shifted with you family to your new house but in a matter of months, you start noticing seepage. Then you realize you had skipped the part of waterproofing entirely! Water seepage through walls happen when there’s a leaking pipe in the bathroom of kitchen, when your exterior wall plaster has worn off exposing the underlying cement work to the weather resulting in cracks or if there is a faulty plumbing or tank leakage. Often people forget or overlook waterproofing their house before painting it. It is a very tiny slip but it can cost us very dearly. 

The best way to avoid destroying your property by allowing seepage is to renovate your house as soon as possible, filling up the cracks and applying a good waterproofing solutions coat on the cement before painting your house. If your home is under construction, make sure you protect it from the onslaught of seepage by applying a good quality waterproofing solution before carrying on with the beautification. Because, let’s admit it, as we saw earlier, seepage doesn’t only occur in the rainy season but it can happen also due to internal leakages and plumbing faults. Here are some basic tenets to remember while renovating or building your home.

Fill those cracks: You may have often seen while renovation, masons first break away the walls? This is to find and identify cracks within the walls which are normally not visible or discernible otherwise. Once these are found, they are then filled with putty. 

Check your plumbing: A plumbing inspection every few months is imperative to protect your walls from water damage. Maybe it is a good idea to replace old piping with new ones as old pipes tend to break and crack easily.

Call a professional: In severe cases, it is advisable to hire a professional to carry out an inspection of your interior and exterior walls. They have ways and the equipment to find out which part of your house is suffering from seepage.

Once the basics are done, choose a good quality waterproofing solution to prevent seepage. Birla White Seepguard Waterproofing Solutions is currently the best available product that meets your every requirement. Birla White Seepguard is made with cutting edge technology and is available in three variants. Seepguard Vertical Surfaces is a polymer-modified White Cementitious, Elastomeric, High Performance Coating System for exterior vertical surfaces, be it a plastered wall or concrete one. Its German ingredients and white cements covers the finest cracks and prevents seepage.

Here are some of its features and benefits:

● Waterproofing: Waterproofing protection of up to 5 bars of positive and negative hydrostatic pressure

● Adhesion: Very strong adhesion with RCC, concrete & cementitious surfaces

● Durability: Protects your building surface from leakage & seepage damages

● Elastomeric: It has highly elastomeric properties to withstand stress caused by thermal expansion & contraction

● Crack Bridging: Excellent crack bridging properties due to presence of German Elastomeric polymers

● Use & maintenance: This is a single pack, white cement-based polymer modified powder product

● Anti-Efflorescence: This product resists Efflorescence & provides long lasting effect

● Heat Reflective and UV resistant: Due to White Cement & white additives based, it is superior UV resistant reflective coating & provides heat reduction by 8-10°C, when applied on surfaces exposed to sunlight

● Eco-friendly: Zero Volatile Organic Compound (VOC)

● Algae & Fungi Resistant

● Warranty: This product provides 8 years waterproofing warranty

Birla White Horizontal Surfaces has the added benefit of head reduction and waterproofing in the same product! It is mostly applied on roofs and terraces and it helps by filling up small pores and cracks and making the surface waterproof thereby preventing seepage. 

Here are some of its features and benefits:

● Waterproofing protection of up to 7 bars of positive and negative hydrostatic pressure

● Adhesion: Very strong adhesion with RCC, concrete & cementitious surfaces

● Durability: Protects your building surface from leakage & seepage damages

● Elastomeric: It has highly elastomeric properties to withstand stress caused by thermal expansion & contraction

● Crack Bridging: Excellent crack bridging properties due to presence of German Elastomeric polymers

● Use & maintenance: This is a single pack, white cement-based polymer modified powder product

● Anti-Efflorescence: This product resists Efflorescence & provides long lasting effect

● Heat Reflective and UV resistant: It is superior UV resistant reflective coating & provides heat reduction by 6-8°C, when applied on surfaces exposed to sunlight

● Eco-friendly: Zero Volatile Organic Compound (VOC)

● Algae & Fungi Resistant

● Warranty: This product provides 08 years waterproofing warranty

● Application: All types of new & existing horizontal concrete, RCC & Cementitious surfaces, Building roofs & terraces, Water Tanks, Balconies, Swimming pools, Basements, 

The third variant is Seepguard Interior Surfaces, waterproof coating for bathroom, kitchen, sunken areas and interior walls. 

Here are some of its features and benefits:

● Waterproofing protection of up to 3 bars of positive and negative hydrostatic pressure

● Adhesion: Very strong adhesion with masonry & concrete surfaces

● Durability: Protects your building surface from leakage & seepage damages

● Elastomeric: It has highly elastomeric properties to withstand stress caused by thermal expansion & contraction

● Crack Bridging: Excellent crack bridging properties due to presence of German Elastomeric polymers

● Use & maintenance: This is a single pack, white cement-based polymer modified powder product

● Anti-Efflorescence: This product resists Efflorescence & provides long lasting effect

● Eco-friendly: Zero Volatile Organic Compound (VOC)

● Algae & Fungi Resistant

● Warranty: This product provides 5 years waterproofing warranty

So you see, Birla White WALL SEEPAGE SOLUTION has all the things you need to keep your entire home waterproof and protected from seepage.

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