"Basement known to take on water in heavy rain"

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Anonymous wrote:The level of ignorance in here is astounding. Most of the water issues in Del Ray are from ground water coming up, not rain water falling. The entire area is flat as a pancake so there is no where for the water to go.

Most people put in a french drain with a pump and either a battery back up or a municipal water powered pump. This is 100% fixible and I question the Realtor's logic in not fixing it first hand.

-guy who has been in Del Ray with a 1919 Bungalow with a basement since 2001. The only time my basement flooded was when we lost power for 3 days during the derecho and the battery was drained on the back up. I installed a muniicpal water powered one and it's been bone dry.

Twenty four years in the house and I had exactly one, 1 inch flood in my basement. I got air handlers and dehumidifers in there and took out the carpet. Total repair cost was about $3000, or less than most people spend on Tolls in this area per year.

This is not true. I am glad your house in Del Ray has been fine, and also seems like you live on a flat street but have you been anywhere else in Del Ray/ Rosemont/ Braddock Heights/ North Ridge???? It’s flat?! What?

The house in question is in Del Ray, about 3 blocks from me. We aren't talking about Beverly Hills or Rosemont. We are talking about Del Ray.

That's great you are 3 blocks from this house. I am about 5. You are still wrong. I hope your basement stays dry (I am sincere about that). But to make statements that the flooding is from water "coming up" and not from the sky, and that Del Ray is flat are not true statements. At all. That may be your experience, and I am jealous that it is, but you're wrong.

I've been in my current house for about 20 years. We have 2 sump pumps and drains and 1000 sq ft basement. We had never had water in the basement until 2021, and the water was definitely from the sky (not water coming up, what even is that)? I have video footage. The water was coming down from Braddock Heights, crossing over Russell and just down to Commonwealth because all of that is coming downhill. The water had no where to go, so it started coming down our basement stairs into our basement through the door. We had had a similar storm in 2019 but the water didn't breach the basement stairs but in 2021 it did.Water everywhere. Then it happened again in 2023. So please stop. If this particular seller feels it is necessary to make a declaration re water in the basement (esp in Virginia when it is a buyer beware state), then something is up.

It's called water table and is 100% different than your inability to keep a stairwell drain clear.

My stairwell drain is clean, but it can only drain so much at a time if the volume of rain coming down is too heavy. I am not sure what kind of odd rigidity you have with defending water tables and denying your neighbors' experiences with flooding in the area. You are oddly aggressive and dismissive. I have photos, videos, and insurance bills, so do plenty of my neighbors with similar issues. And to say Del Ray is as flat as a pancake is pure comedy gold. I was just driving to CVS on Monroe (another known street to flood between Commonwealth and Mt. Vernon, because you've got run off coming from High Street/Braddock and in from higher elevation of Monroe by CVS). It's flat? GTFOH. Are you the agent for this house?

I’m not that PP, but I think there’s an important distinction between water intrusion through the walls and a flood that comes in through the door. Yes, you can’t fix the latter. But I don’t think we have reason to think this house has that problem. What it does clearly have is water intrusion in an unfinished basement that should be fixable with checking the gutters and installing drains and a sump pump. It won’t be that disruptive, because it’s unfinished. This house doesn’t even have basement stairs.

I would totally buy this house if it were otherwise right for me. I would budget $25k for the basement. Install the drains and sump pump and use what’s left for paint, cabinets/shelving, and maybe cheerful vinyl flooring. Bam, dry laundry room.