I'd be careful on some things having owned a few homes. One, a basement. I'll never buy another house without a basement. Crawl spaces don't get it, neither do slab. We just got heavy rains in northen Indiana that lasted from the time I woke up Saturday morning through Sunday night. I spent most of yesterday helping my sister and brother-in-law bailout the basement of their five or six year old house, ripping up carpet and tossing it, and the water is still seeping in today. In that they have a finshed basement with drywall up everywhere, until that drywall comes down after the water table gets down to where it needs to be, no telling where that water's coming in from, except that you can see it streaming in steadily at the bottom of three of the exterior walls, not the fourth which lines up with a two car attached garage. It could be that they finished the basement soon after buying the house, and not long after it was built...without allowing the poured concrete walls to cure out and now have cracks behind all of that stuff. It could be that the water is coming in where the floor meets the poured walls...behind all of that stuff. But there is now water seeping in the cracks that have formed in the stress cuts that were made in the floor at the time of construction, as well as around the sump pump well, around the fresh water well pipe where it goes through the floor, and around a hallway drain that is piped over to the sump pump in their utility room. Apparently their normal water table is well below the foundation, and as the rain water seeps down into the ground, its looking for places to go. Never in my life have I ever seen stress cuts scored into a basement floor until I ripped up the drenched carpet in this house. I don't know what the bag mix was going into this floor, but I'm not guessing that it is what I've seen over the years. They've had problems with the wells of their egress windows filling with rain water and leaking in the past, so if you have egress windows make sure that the gravel below them goes plenty deep, I'm guessing at least as deep as the foundation, and make sure that the price includes egress covers to keep rain out in the first place. Make sure that the exterior walls are seal coated real well, I can see from looking into the egress wells of this house that the seal stops about four feet below the ground level. I'd have brought the coating up to at least the ground level, waited a couple of days for it to dry and crack, and then coated it a second time before filling in. And if you are going to have a finshed basement, make sure that your interior walls are cured out and sealed (drylok) before finishing the basement. I haven't seen it yet, but my brother-in-law says that there's insulation batting (BATTING, not Foam) between the drywall and the poured walls. Batting absorbs moisture and poured concrete butted up against moist dirt and then not allowed to breath because of drywall can draw moisture. Insulation batting? Their basement is a disaster, its not the first time its leaked, and hear that other neighbors out in that same subdivision are having similar problems. I've never had that problem in any home I've ever owned, except one that had a crawl space with a dirt floor. Heavy rains had to go somewhere, and guess where?
You're doing the right thing. Learn from other folks experiences and/or mistakes. Much good luck.
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