Basement sealing suggestions

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2. A couple things....

"nicely painted, no leaks and no mold" sometimes raises a red flag for me if it is "freshly painted"........ the sellers might be hiding something. But I am a suspicious person.


That said, the best way to keep water out is to keep water away from the house. The is especially true with block foundations (don't know what you are looking at). If there are no problems, keep it that way by maintaining/cleaning gutters and ensuring the ground slopes away from the house (i.e during landscaping projects).

Recently, I had occasion to visit a friend's family home that she inherited some 20 years ago. She doesn't live in it full-time and she doesn't really have money to keep it up. A couple years ago she was bemoaning the fact that she had to have part of the foundation repaired at substantial cost. Fast forward a couple years when I visited, the OTHER side of the foundation was about to collapse because the gutters on that side were either missing or completely clogged. Water was pooling in one spot on that side of the house. The block in the basement is seriously deteriorated.