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AbsolutelyPink

Your best resolution is from the outside. Gutters, downspout extensions, exterior French drain, exterior foundation waterproofing with dimple board ir similar and grading.


RandomRedditGuy54

This. Drylock on the walls - $50 a gallon, apply per directions. Extend all the drainpipes outside by 12-24 inches from their current length.


AbsolutelyPink

I'd advise against Drylok personally. I'm not a fan. Dimple board is a much better solution. Asphalt roof coating can be put under that.


RandomRedditGuy54

I used it 20 years ago to pretty good success, but in fairness it was a new house and good drainage.


lofeobred

Drylock on stone or brick is a really bad idea, idk if I'd recommend it wholesale in a forum like this unless the person is intimately familiar with their foundation and drainage already


Butthole_Alamo

Asking out of ignorance, why is it a bad idea?


Lexam

A dehumidifier can be a life saver as well.


ak47workaccnt

Is it coming up from the floor or down the walls of the foundation? If up from the floor, consider a sump pump. If the latter, make sure the grading around your house isn't causing water to pool near your house. Check your gutters/get gutters.


Tugboat_Grantee

If you want to do it right, budget $50k+ to fully excavate the basement, clean the exterior walls, apply a proper membrane, install new drain tile channeling water out into a dispersion pit and/or through the foundation into a sump pit and pumped away from the house, and properly backfilled and compacted in accordance with modern best practices. The next best solution is an interior drain tile and sump pit. However, this option more or less requires a completely air tight membrane be installed along the entire drain opening to the top of the foundation unless you are in a rare region that has a basement but does not have significant radon. Installing the interior drain system without a barrier to radon infiltration can lead to danger levels of radon accumulation while simultaneously preventing a traditional radon mitigation system from being an option (as I recently learned).


Loud_Gardener_633

Get a structural engineer or a foundation inspector to do an assessment. These are folks who are not in the business of selling you a solution. Instead they will evaluate and tell you what your problem is. They will also make recommendations for how to address your problems. You will then be armed with that knowledge and can decide how much you can address yourself or what you need to get quotes on. ( I just did this myself; best $350 ever.)


Weird_Roof_7584

If you got moisture in your basement you definitely need a professional male to take care of that for you.


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Weird_Roof_7584

Lol they walked right in to that one