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Message: [QUOTE="Watchdog, post: 4016463, member: 10325"] Have you removed any of the paneling to see if the walls are damp or if there is seepage? How about the flooring? Is there dampness anywhere coming up from beneath the floor? From friends, family, and personal experience there are several issues to check. It's possible they didn't waterproof the outside of the foundation properly or, if they did, they might not have gone high enough. If it's a wet area and they didn't put in foundation drains around the outside of the foundation that could lead to seepage through the walls or the floor. If the lot wasn't graded properly to keep standing water away from the foundation that can be a problem. When we built our house we found seeping water along the back wall of one end of the foundation after heavy rain a month or two after we moved in. We had foundation drains installed around the foundation when the house was built so I was concerned they hadn't been installed correctly. As I looked at the area outside at the spot where the seepage was occurring I realized that area of the lot hadn't been graded properly so I had the contractor come back (for free) to regrade the area and create a swail a few yards away from the foundation so standing or pooling water during heavy rains could no longer get near the foundation. Problem solved. My parents house was damp in the basement and they had to have "french drains" installed inside to drain the water to a sump pump. The water table was high and the clay soil complicated that. [/QUOTE]

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