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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][QUOTE]the water is coming through the wall and from below the foundation. I've talked to three companies and they all agree with the problem. The differ on the solutions and the price.[/QUOTE]

Many of these water remediation companies are a racket.

For water coming through the wall, start simple.  Make sure the ground is graded away from your house, and not directing surface water toward your foundation.  Next, make sure your gutter downspouts are routing water away from your foundation.
 
If those simple things don't work, then it's often best to deal with the issue outside the house, not dig up your basement to add an interior drain.  [b]Usually this involves trenching down to the footers on the retaining wall sides, installing a drainage system (usually comprised of landscape fabric, washed stone, and 4" perforated PVC pipe that exits to daylight), applying a waterproof coating to the outside of the foundation wall, and backfilling with grade of course away from the house.[/b]

If there's STILL water coming up through the slab, then you could demo the basement slab, add a base of washed stone and sump pump which pumps to daylight, and repour a new slab on top.  This is pretty extreme however. Good luck![/quote]You're describing about $100,000 worth of work and no company who does that work will even offer a lifetime warranty.  Trenching down to the footers?  That will involve the demo of anything within about ten feet out front he house including, concrete walkways, driveway, patios, removing any decks, sun porches, etc., removing the A/C unit outside and anything else that will be in the way of excavating all the way down and about ten feet out from the house foundations walls.  Then that dirt will be piled about 15-25 feet out from the house before that work can begin.  Seriously, are you high?  Take a look at most any home in the demographic area of this forum and tell me how that is possible.  And just for fun, tell me what you would charge if it were and what your warranty is for this work?  Ill give you an example of a common brick home built int he 40s that measures 25 feet by 30 feet deep.

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That’s not true at all. We did it in 3 days and we have lots of stonework [/quote]

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