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Whoever contracts to build your basement will probably leave it up to a groundworker or a shuttering carpenter who, on a price, will use all everything specified on the drawings\u00a0 – but badly.<\/p>\n

No matter how expensive products are, used badly they don’t work so basements almost always leak.<\/p>\n

Basements leak till someone does the work well, whether that’s initially, later or eventually.<\/p>\n

The first chance to waterproof a new-build basement is with the concrete. And the cheapest waterproof concrete is sampled on site, tested and certificated completely impermeable. It’s just what you want.<\/p>\n

It does not require any expensive membrane, any costly tape or strip or an outrageously dear internal drainage system with a sump or a pump. These are all repair materials yet none last as long as good concrete.<\/p>\n

The concrete just needs doing properly with the right steel reinforcement and the right mix design.<\/p>\n

We can help you.<\/p>\n

We can save you a fortune.<\/p>\n

For a fixed fee of \u00a3200 plus VAT we will do our best to persuade your engineer or architect to drop his insistence on thousands of pounds (of your money) on extras that might overcome some poor workmanship but probably won’t.<\/p>\n

For another \u00a3200 plus VAT we can attend site and do our best to get the work done properly.<\/p>\n

But in all truth. If you want the work done well you need to employ your own gang temporarily so that neither you or them are out to get each other. We can help with that as well.<\/p>\n

We are Waterproof Concrete With Site Supervision Ltd.<\/p>\n

Because when the right concrete and the right supervision come together, it is RIGHT FIRST TIME and you pocket the savings.<\/p>\n

www.waterproofconcrete.co.uk<\/a>
\n01438 900303<\/p>\n

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