Garage leaking from pavement - suggestions?

Snozzle

Hi - we have just bought a new property which came with a garage which is separate to the house. It is in a row of garages all of which have a pavement running above them. The garage is concrete.



Now the garage is empty we can see that it is leaking from the ceiling - not seriously but enough that I wouldn't want to store household items in it. Can anyone recommend anything that we can paint onto the ceiling that would stop the water ingress?


I have spent a fair amount of time on research and came up with Arcacem Basement Cellar but on the French Amazon website it doesn't get the best reviews.


Thanks for any help.

vw100

Painting some sort of roofing liquid such as Bitumen containing products may help, but it depends on the size of the hole. Painting sort of products is ok for small-ish repairs. When you mean painting the ceiling, you mean repairing the area from the inside?

maninthestreet

Pavement??

TheBanker

When you say new property, do you mean newly built? If so I'd get the builders back rather than attempt a DIY repair.

Fire_Fox

Report the leak to whoever is responsible for maintaining the pavement.

Snozzle

Hi - sorry to clarify, we have recently just bought the house (it's not new just new to us (probably fairly old)) and it comes with the garage. The pavement is directly above the garages - there are steps down to the garages periodically. The properties are all accessed off the pavement above (so slightly recessed from the garages).



We are thinking we will need to coat the whole concreted ceiling with something so stop water seeping in - the problem is what to use?



Thanks again.

Snozzle

I am guessing the Council would be responsible for the pavement - we thought it would take forever to get a response from them that if there was something we could paint on we would try that first - almost as if we are trying to waterproof a basement cellar.

neilmcl

Snozzle wrote: »

I am guessing the Council would be responsible for the pavement - we thought it would take forever to get a response from them that if there was something we could paint on we would try that first - almost as if we are trying to waterproof a basement cellar.

Don't guess, find out for sure. If it is the council's responsibility then it may not take as long as you may think to get a resolution, especially if you tell them you will be holding them liable for any future damage to your garage and contents.

Snozzle

Will phone the Council on Monday - thanks.

getmore4less

What's the roof of the garage made of?

Is it a single concrete slab or something else?

cyclonebri1

Fairly simple but messy job to fibreglass over the whole roof. Di it right and you will never have a leak again, maybe £300 but better than bodging.

Post a picture of the layout, it's difficult imagine without. The pavement should have a raised kerb or similar prevent the water flowing into properties, I assume there are railings or similar to prevent stepping/falling onto the roofs?

As others have said talk to the council, but if the roof leaks as you say, it will still do that from heavy rainfall even if the council do their bit.;)