Re: Water detection probes?

Your local sheetrocker, builder, siding contractor and/or lumber yard may
have a moisture meter you can borrow.


"Bob Marencin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Your local home store should (may) have moisture dectors but
> they are expensive especialy if you are only using them once.
> arround $150 but there are cheaper ones.
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> they have 2 metal probes that stick into wood or concrete
> and send a current between the probes . by measuring the
> resistance they give you an aproximate value of the moisture.
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> you can also check Ebay  and you can always sell it on ebay
> after you are done with it.
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> flooring contractors and building inspectors use them.
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> to cure your problem you wont be cutting into the wall
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> you may just need to raise the grade arround the house to
> make sure water runs away from the house or
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> you will be excavating arround the house and installing a
> drain tile / perferated pipe  covering it with a silt sock and
> then a foot or so of gravel.
> over the gravel you use garden fabric or plain (not asfault)
> construction paper then dirt.
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> you hook the drain tile tube into aditional tubes that you run
> out into your yard underground and inside gravel
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> This is probably overkill though since you say it was not a
> normal rain that caused this.
> the ground is probably very saturated and time will cure it.
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> bob marencin
> www.yourepair.com
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> "John Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Looking for a way to detect or measure the water
> > behind a wall, or if a water spot is indeed wet,
> > or all dried up.
> >
> > I'm trying to avoid cutting holes where there is not
> > an issue (small spot after tornado a few weeks ago).
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> > Or ... is there a cheap camera/scope I can stick into
> > a wall and hook up to a small monitor?
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> > Thanks!
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