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[quote=Anonymous]Echo 13:48.  If you have a sump pump, then you have a risk of water issues.  I would ask the contractor to use an infra-red camera and go around the perimeter walls checking for evidence of dampness.

I would also consider using tile throughout the floor and then just putting an extremely large carpet on top.  If your basement floods---better to replace an extremely large area rug for several hundred dollars than to recarpet the entire basement for thousands.  My neighbors did a heated tile floor in their basement and loved it.  I would also build out walls to create lots of closets.

Also make sure you put lights in the shower.  Our basement shower does not have a light directly over the shower and it is always dark in there.

Finally, depending upon where you live, I would renovate the basement in such a way that it could be easily upgraded to be a legal rental unit.  You may never use it that way, but having it done to code with that possibility increases the value of your house (again---depending upon where you live)

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