waterproofing travertine? Help!

04/24/2011 - 16:15

We have a number of external walls about a metre high, cement rendered on both sides and made of tufo blocks. Sadly the rendering keeps getting spalled off after the winter due to, I think water in the walls freezing and expanding. Iam thinking of sealing the joint between walls and terrace with silicone rubber and what I think may be the main problem - a one and a half inch thixk capping stone complete with drip groove but having joints about every four feet and which I strongly suspect is porous, coupled with the fact that this is flat is allowing water to penetrate to the tufo underneath which we all know is like blotting paper. Can you get some kind of solution which will make the travertino waterproof? (possibly silicone based? )

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Renovating

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There must be a product as we have travertine tiles in our shower which have been coated with a water repellant and it works very effectively. Am over there end of week and will try to get name of product

Cement render (and lime mortar etc.) will not adhere for any length of time to tufo. Tufo is porous and absorbs water when breached. If you want to seal from the outside, the product you require is "fissativio". €5-6 for a litre which will cover around 12 m2. However, unless you have perfect adhesion, all you will be doing is sealing the water in. Unfortunately, I don't think that there is too much that you can do. If its any help, we have the same problem.

waterproofing travertine? Help!

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There must be a product as we

Cement render (and lime

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