Rod's garage - How do I fix this leak?

[Rod N]

Water was coming in last spring around these wires that go underground to my secondary garage. The other side is 4 ft down at the front of the attached garage.
Do I dig it up old school and use tar?
I was hoping to have someone come in and do the injection thing from the inside, but no one wants such a small job.
Options?

 

[doctordirt]

Can not tell what type of material wires are coming through. If it is concrete, you could try hydraulic cement. I have had excellent results even stopping flowing water.

 

[wnstwolf]

Hi Rod,

A few years back when we built the new house we ran the utilities underground and into the basement. We had a terrible winter and after all the snow melt off and ground thaw we realized something was terribly wrong as a full fledged water fall was coming through our electrical box It was out of control and similar in nature what you have going on. Our foundation is ICF and the feed into the electrical panel was at the very top.

I tried the hydro cement route from the inside and it seemed to help but in the end we had to dig things up from outside and goup the heck out of the hole with the "tar" stuff. I dug back about 6' and dug at least 18-24" deeper than the conduit and backfilled under the pipe with stone and then soil on top to try and let any water that gets inthere a place to go other than my electrial system.

Hope your solution goes well.

 

[Rod N]

Thanks for the tips Gents.

A 2 inch piece of abs and a 220 volt wire is what is coming out of the wall. Yes there is hydro cement on the inside.

I think I will go the goup/tar route, but I would have to do a lot of digging and interlock removal to create any type of drainage.

 

[Rod N]

This is the outside.

 

[wnstwolf]

Ouch are you saying there is concrete over the "trench" That makes your choices a whole lot less. I feel for you I had a terrible time with my leak at least your full panel is not 4" away

 

[Rod N]

Ouch are you saying there is concrete over the "trench" That makes your choices a whole lot less. I feel for you I had a terrible time with my leak at least your full panel is not 4" away

It's interlock brick that has to come up.
4" away! Yikes! Panel is on the other side of the room and luckily there was a floor drain not to far away.