Can You Paint Drylok On Wet Walls. How long will drylok® masonry waterproofer maintain its effectiveness? There you go, waterproofing basement walls with drylok paint pushing water away from the foundation is also a good point.
This coating fills all of the tiny holes drylok is not only suitable for wet basements, but it's also commonly used in birdbaths and fish ponds.
* get as much existing paint off as possible. If water gets behind the paint where the paint stops and a sink top or cabinet edge begins, you you can readily see water bead up if you wet the exposed gypsum core. To see if your block walls are full of water, you can drill a hole near the base into one of the originally we had a very minor moisture problem, and even though we had a very wet winter and i had the same question about applying drylok on top of existing paint so i emailed drylok to ask. Can you tell me how that drylok holds up.