On Feb 14, 10:37*am, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
"Mikepier" wrote in message

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On Feb 14, 9:09 am, N8N wrote:

On Feb 14, 9:05 am, "desgnr" wrote:

I have wall to wall carpeting in my basement on a concrete floor.
Water comes up through the concrete about once or twice a year when we
have
steady rain.
Is there any solution for this problem,since i don't see any cracks in
the
concrete, just the water seems to appear.

French drain. Not cheap.

nate

I would try to avoid carpet altogether. It sounds like you have a high
water table. If you put down linolueum or ceramic tile, at least you
know water would not affect it that much.

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Wanna bet?

My laundry room disagrees with you. (just spent a lovely weekend
scraping up the old linoleum tiles, which were all lifting, curling,
had nasty dirt underneath them, etc.)

Fortunately in my case, all of the water in the basement came from
inside; I had a leaking water heater, furnace condensate drain, deep
sink faucet, etc. etc. etc... girlie says she's even caught the
washing machine leaking although I haven't seen that yet. I swear if
there's something down there that uses/produces water, some niggly
little bit of it is/was leaking. I don't know how the previous owners
put up with it.

My parents had a similar issue as the OP's at their house; we'd tiled
the basement (actually I did a lot of it myself, and I think I did a
pretty good job for an 8th grader who'd never done same before) which
was previously unfinished. The water did loosen the vinyl tiles and
generally made a mess. Investigation revealed that the house had been
built without any French drain whatsoever, installation of same has
resulted in a reassuringly dry basement ever since.

nate

(dreaming of a dry basement)