We have an old end terraced house. With the heavy rain we have water coming through our concrete floor.?
Can anyone please help? The outside level is slightly higher than the living room floor level. The house is about 100 years old and we've lived here for 6 mths. When it rains heavy we get about half a bucket of water coming from cracks in the concrete living room floor especially around where the stairs banister has been put into the floor? Is there a cheap DIY solution? Can I stop the water coming in by painting the outside wall with some waterproofer? Can I seal the floor with waterproof concrete, etc?
Pretty desperate and the wife thinks it's the end of the world and civilisation?
You are going to have to put in some sort of drainage system against the house. It sounds like you will need to do some grading to make the outside level lower than the house.
You really need to hire technical engineer to design a system that will work with your soils and situation.
You say that the stair banister is embedded into the concrete? Did the previous owners pour another slab on top of the original trying to stop the water? If they did I would remove the second slab because your sills are going to rot from the concrete to wood contact.