Just about to come home from a Kosovo deployment with my Guard unit. Know I'll have a "honey-do" list like never before, one of which will be finish off a basement. Have to make sure it's dry first and it's currently not. Central Iowa, it was a poured wall buried basement on a hillside. 3 yrs ago we dug out the downhill side and added on enough that it became a walk-out basement. The old basement floor had a floor drain that was just piped out the hillside. As we needed a way to drain the central heat/AC unit condensate and water softener discharge, we put in a sump bucket and pump with a discharge pipe run under the new slab and out the hillside. It used to slow leak a little every hard rain in one place on the uphill side wall where there were 3 hairline cracks. During real wet spring seasons, it would occassionally come up through the floor. Last year I bought a kit that injects sealant into the cracks, it seems to be holding really well through this wet spring. I had hoped that plugging these cracks and relieving head pressure by digging out the hillside to make the walkout would solve the problem, but alas...time for more serious measures. My question is, if I rent a saw, cut a channel through the 'crete around the perimeter of the old basement, and gravel in a perf tile with both ends dumping into the sump bucket, would this have a high likelyhhod of solving my issues, or will there still be significant pressures on the walls? I got one est. a year ago from a well-known, highly advertised basement waterproofing company. Sounds like they'd do the same thing, but with a propietary tile that has a lip which extends up through the newly poured 'crete. They'd then cover the walls with some kind of propietary plastic material, the bottom edge of which sits inside the tile "lip". Any water coming through the walls sheets downward, into the lip, down to the tile, and away to the sump. They don't get out of the truck for less than $3K, wanted $5K to do the entire old half of the basement (24'x48'). What would you do? DIY or leave it to the pros? Anyone have any experience with the type of system they're proposing?
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