"m Ransley" wrote in message
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16% in all wood , or different in areas , wood take a Long time to dry
when wet, new and green. House is not heated or dehumidified. I have a
good Delmhorst Moisture meter, it took a frame sill 1 yr to dry after
being soaked. It measured maybe 15% after the leak was fixed 6 months
later. Today years later it is 0% 1%, a humid basement.
Jack a house you are kidding , you dont even know its bad. Its not
even your house.

French drain probably necessary . French drains usualy use pumps.

Its their house , they can see the floor and leaks , it passed
inspection Right. So you are going to new home owners scaring the ****
out of them and being a nosy body telling people their new floors are
bad , that Somebody may have heard their foundation Crack in the Real
cold winter , when you suspect they did it wrong anyway. and their
foundation may fail their house is on a lake and full of extremely high
wood moisture. Its a good thing you werent allowed in the house while
it was being built, you would condem the whole place

Did you ever stop to think it aint your business, it may be normal, and
you are an intrusive , disruptive pest ruining peoples privacy and new
home and scaring the **** out of them. What you hate the builder ?
this is your revenge. You should worry about your life and house not
people that you dont know or didnt ask for your two cents worth of
doughtfull fears.

I met the new - well potentially new - neighbors yesterday. They asked if we
had water in our cellar and I said never. They asked me to look at theirs. I
have installed lots of hardwood flooring and when walking towards the cellar
I saw the cupping of 2 month old hardwood already. And 2 steps downstairs
into basement a musty odor. There is standing water on 75 percent of entire
foundation where it meets the floor. And one spot in the middle of the
foundation. Last shower here was about 5 days ago.

What seems to have happened here is the foundation was poured, the forms
were removed around 16 hours later, and there was never any attempt to keep
it at 50 degrees. It was below freezing those nights. For the next 10 days
it never got over 50 degrees and every night it was below freezing. I have
nothing against the builder at all. He subbed it out and he should have been
watching his project. I just feel bad when someone gets ripped off by shoddy
construction. And in this case the new people want to finish the cellar off
into a playroom - not a damp sauna.