Tank room

Discussion in 'Subfloor Preparation' started by Neilydun, Jul 28, 2022.

  1. Neilydun

    Neilydun Well-Known Member

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    I`ve been asked to provide a tanking solution for a plant room, above a supermarket.
    They always leak to varying degrees, so it needs to work, and not just be a superficial solution.
    Its a powerfloat slab, with some nasty angles which might be tough to cove up vinyl. I would think I would need to box it out square with marine ply first if we were going down that route.
    I was thinking 2x coats of epoxy dpm, but I would need to form some sort of cove round the perimeter first.
    Anyone done that before ?
     
  2. Paul webb

    Paul webb Well-Known Member

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    Is there something like fibreglass that you could mould round the edge of the floor and up the wall before you dpm it?
     
  3. merit

    merit Well-Known Member

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    Could ask Sika or watco for a system? Or try a company called Triton. They do loads of dpm systems
     
  4. Neilydun

    Neilydun Well-Known Member

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    Watco is the specified system. I suppose I could give them a call today and see what they say.
    My thoughts were to dpm then sand blind the finish.
     
  5. Neilydun

    Neilydun Well-Known Member

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    Don`t really know. I was thinking something like ardurapid. Let is semi go off, then use a cove tool.
     
  6. Paul webb

    Paul webb Well-Known Member

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    I was thinking more like using it flush, just to waterproof the base of the wall, then just use pvc cove as normal
     
  7. Paul webb

    Paul webb Well-Known Member

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    Just realised you weren't thinking of going over the top of it, so just ignore me lol.
    I take it they are not overly concerned about looks
     
  8. Neilydun

    Neilydun Well-Known Member

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    No, it just about the practicality of it. At some point it will leak, so needs to work.
     

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