Ed Pawlowski wrote:
"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.

I hate it when someone here actually makes sense instead of baseless
assumptions.