Ice and water shield on walls

[Stefan S]

I am faced with rebuilding a small section of wall that rotted because it was built on a concrete slab even with with a poorly sloped driveway.

I am curious if I can use ice and water shield on the wall to better keep the water out. I will be using closed cell foam insulation on the inside.

Thoughts?

 

[CNGsaves]

Jack up that side of building, and install concrete block stem-wall to prevent your rotten wall problems from happening again. Depending on your climate, now would be good time to upgrade insulation gameplan as well.

Search around GJ as there is great write-up where guy did this very thing.

Let's SEE pictures of this problem wall . . . . . pics tell a thousand words.

Now would be good time to Update GJ Profile with LOCATION. Good luck.

 

[Daniel Dudley]

Yes.

 

[tdkkart]

Fix the driveway/slab issues first or your problems will never go away.

 

[Stefan S]

Here are the pictures. Right now the Cedar siding goes all the way to the ground. I will be ripping the whole wall out and rebuilding with a water table.

Pouring concrete is an option but it would still be pretty short so the house wouldn't look stupid.

 

[Pluribus]

...install concrete block stem-wall to prevent your rotten wall problems from happening again. Depending on your climate, now would be good time to upgrade insulation gameplan as well...Good luck.

Fix the driveway/slab issues first or your problems will never go away.

If I'm interpreting the pictures correctly, you only have an issue on the 2-1/2 to 3' wide section to the side of the garage door, then it looks like it runs into a poured foundation wall at the corner. Is that correct? If so, I'd go the route CNGSaves mentioned and put in a couple/few courses of block, then frame that wall section on top of that. I'd also address the drainage.

Ice & Water shield is great stuff, but I think using it that way almost amounts to expecting it to perform like a submersible dam and would be asking too much.

 

[jlckmj]

It would probably help IF you are sure you can keep the water on the outside of the ice and water shield.

If you fail to do that, it would be an even larger issue by trapping the moisture inside the wall cavity and the I&W shield, the wall would not be able o breath, making the wall rot even sooner.

I vote with taking care of the problem by raising the lower wall with block doing it right, then fix the drainage issues.

jim

 

[77thor]

I would also use pressure treated wood when rebuilding.