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So we have a walk-out basement which means about 2/3 of it is buried. When we first moved here we had some water in the basement, we decided it was a malfunctioning buried drain spout, we had it sealed. No more issues in that area.
I have always noticed lines on the foundation walls (Old house, rock foundation, not concrete) like water ran down the walls but have never actually seen it and we haven't had any more water in the basement (that we know of).
Fast forward to yesterday. There was about 8-12 feet of wall where you could tell the floor under it had been wet recently and a box that had been pushed up under that section was still wet on the bottom. So I pushed everything away from the wall and drew a chalk line where the dark spots already were because its supposed to rain over the next few days.
Got home this morning about an hour ago and in a small area the water had seeped over the line, there was a VERY fine line of water running out of the wall, like the wall is seeping. So I went outside and raked all of the leaves back that had settled in the outside flower bed, the soil was dry. So now I'm really confused...so the water from the outside soil is seeping into the foundation walls...this can't be normal (or GOOD! ACK!) luckily only one room and one bathroom have walls (and only 3 small ones at that) that are finished but what is the fix??
Anyone have experience with this? Off to start calling companies off of Angies List...
I have always noticed lines on the foundation walls (Old house, rock foundation, not concrete) like water ran down the walls but have never actually seen it and we haven't had any more water in the basement (that we know of).
Fast forward to yesterday. There was about 8-12 feet of wall where you could tell the floor under it had been wet recently and a box that had been pushed up under that section was still wet on the bottom. So I pushed everything away from the wall and drew a chalk line where the dark spots already were because its supposed to rain over the next few days.
Got home this morning about an hour ago and in a small area the water had seeped over the line, there was a VERY fine line of water running out of the wall, like the wall is seeping. So I went outside and raked all of the leaves back that had settled in the outside flower bed, the soil was dry. So now I'm really confused...so the water from the outside soil is seeping into the foundation walls...this can't be normal (or GOOD! ACK!) luckily only one room and one bathroom have walls (and only 3 small ones at that) that are finished but what is the fix??
Anyone have experience with this? Off to start calling companies off of Angies List...
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