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Author: Engr. Faisal Rehman [FR]
NOTE: Please note that the interpretation of this document requires Expert Engineer Opinion. It is
effort to create filed practice manual for basements and foundation in waterlogged areas that can serve
as guidance for engineers. The solution pertains to basement with settlement issue in waterlogged area
in Taru Jaba District Nowshehra, KPK, Pakistan.
Disclaimer: The author and mentioned engineers hold no responsibility for any damage caused by
techniques mentioned in this document without prior Engineer Advice.
What happening here is that water is shifting the atterberg's limit of soil to plastic and then liquid,
hence, soil fails in shear causing settlement.
Treatment:
1. Hold the floor beams with jack .
2. Excavate 4ft below the foundation base.
3. Pump out all water and fill it with shingle+cement mixture (1:4) to provide firm soil with high
bearing capacity to hold footings.
4. The depth of this shingle+cement around the sides of footing shall be 2ft, the next 2ft layer shall be
boulders (2in size). Then, place drain tile pipe and cover it with boulder of 2ft layer on top of drain tile.
5. Join the pipe to sump tank and sump tank to sewage line. And sump pump facility to drain water
from sump tank to sewage line.
6. Fill foundation to basement floor with compacted granular base, then crush+sand and then basement
floor.
7. Total time taken will be around 2 months.
8. In taro jaba, clean water table is at 40 ft, and pure water starts at 50 ft. So hard strata is much below
80ft and due to high rise water table, friction piles may not work alone unless water around is drained
by mentioned techniques.
9. Add zero size chip plaster on wall to prevent wall leak. Without roughing the surface, it will not
work. I can recommend that, apply plaster 1/2inch thick with added admixture called Vapro blue color
75Rs/kg and then apply Zero Chips/terrazo with added admixture called Sika Lite 100 PK. Its a powder
used for integral waterproofing. Use 1 Kg in 50 KG Bag of Cement.
If you don't have head of room reduction problem, then first put 6 in concrete which doesn't retain
water. Then course chips layer and then another 6in concrete at base. This total 1 ft thick slab at base.
For side walls, first put a layer of high bond paste but mind that here locally lots of them are 2 no.
Original is german and manufactured in karachi. It is a flexible material. After this put layer of chips
better to be zero chips. The total wall thickness shall atleast increase atleast by 1 in or more.
If there is head room reduction problem then you have to excavate as well.
Reference:
1. Guide for french drain with drawing details in footer of page:
http://www.wbdg.org/design/env_bg_wall.php
2. Details of basement floor cross-section:
http://www.wbdg.org/pdfs/edg/bg_132.pdf
3. Guide for preventing basement leak from interior perimeter:
http://www.inspectapedia.com/.../Basement_Perimeter_Drain...
4. Case study of wet basement diagnosis and treatment:
http://www.inspectapedia.com/Wet.../Basement_Water.htm
5. There is interesting video on french drain:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=957571627627936
6. Engr. Shah Faisal Recommendation on use of available admixture mentioned in point 9 at end.
7. Recommendations by Prof. Dr. M. Ashraf for water table above basement.