"Evan" wrote
Hello,
Lots of water in the basement due to the NE floods. RI got creamed. I
ripped down the sheetrock, took up the subfloor and laminate. All in a
dumpster now. Fans and dehumidifier are running. I am going to
rebuild
the basement.


I'd give it a couple of months. I'd also spray either a bleach solution
or
some sort of mold preventer before sealing it up in case thee are some
spores around. Then, depending on the water source, I'd look at
prevention.
If it was a rising river, you are SOL, but if it was groundwater seeping,
youy may be able to seal it better or divert it.

We had a lower level room at work get wet a few years back. We removed
the
sheetrock, repaired gutters, pave the driveway next to the building, etc.
It was dry for three years. We put up sheetrock a week before the rains.
Fortunately, it was not taped and we took it down and watch the water
come
in along the edge of the floor and wall. Consider leaving a place you
can
open up and peek in case of water, if it was coming in behind the wall.


Ummm yeah... Ed...

Think of a river whose flood stage is at 9 Feet...

Then think of how far said river will spread beyond
its normal boundaries when it rises to 21 Feet...

No amount of "diversion" or "water sealing" will
be effective when you have 5 feet of standing/flowing
river water in your yard... That is just plain old
FLOOD...

~~ Evan

A lot of people have been talking about "the flood" but have had ground
water, not rising rivers in the basement. I'm not going to ASSume
anything unless the OP specifically says what the source is. I know
plenty of people that pumped there "flooded" basements that were nowhere
near the rising banks of anything. When you get 10" of rain, water travels
through every fissure in saturated ground. Houses that never had water in
the basement in 100 years have had it this rainfall.

There is also quite a bit of difference in the cleanup needed for river
water than with relatively clean ground water.

Meantime, lets find out for sure what the OP had.