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I swore by a 6 mil vapor barrier for years, but a wet slab in Tacoma changed my mind
Had a job there last fall, concrete felt dry but the meter read 85%. Old me would have rolled out the thin stuff and hoped. New me uses a 10 mil reinforced sheet with taped seams every time now. That Tacoma house would have been a callback nightmare. What's your go-to for a high reading on a slab?
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vera_johnson94d ago
Oh man, that hits home... I used to be the king of "it'll probably be fine" with the cheap stuff. Learned my lesson the hard way too, but with a basement that smelled like a swamp a year later. Now if the meter even blinks funny, I'm grabbing the thick stuff and enough tape to wrap a bus. That extra time and material is nothing compared to fixing a failed floor.
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elizabethmason4d ago
Wait, you actually had a basement that smelled like a swamp? That's wild, I can't even imagine dealing with that. What did you even do, just start over completely? I get being careful now, because that sounds like a total nightmare to fix. Once you've been through something that bad, you never want to cut corners again.
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sethm464d ago
Remember that musty smell after a heavy rain?
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