|
I've found that many such problems can be aleviated by treating the outside perimeter of the house. Check all you downspouts and make sure they run the water well away from the wall, at least a few feet; sometimes you have to add an extender to the spout to dump the water far enough away from the house. Make sure that the base of every outside wall has dirt that slopes away from the house, I'd say the slop should drop about 6" or more from the wall to where it is level with the outside ground. If you go outside and look around during a heavy downpour, you might find that water is pooling near the house or maybe even that water forms a shallow stream while flowing downhill - if this water flows too close to the house, you will have to find a way to route it elsewhere, maybe using a shallow trench or even a buried french drain (buried pipe with lots of 1/2" holes in it buried a foot or so underground and laying on a bed of gravel covered by sandy dirt or surrounded by something that allows the water to drain into the pipe (not clay soil), the end of the pipe should be downhill away from the house. If none of that works, cover your whole house with a plastic bubble and get millions in government funding for a biosphere experiment.
|