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[quote]  It's the same guy, now posting as a happy homeowner/customer with a ridiculous story. You certainly don't need an Architect, or a Structural Engineer, PE to solve a simple water intrusion problem and it's highly unlikely anyone would hire one, or both just to issue an opinion on how to repair this problem.[/quote]

Actually, a different person and we did hire a PE.

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No, you're the same person who posted the reply above at the same time.[/quote]

I have to agree with this.  I'm a homeowner and a PE.  Can't imagine why you'd need one for this issue, and half of what's posted is either not effective or practical.  (The Bithuthene membrane works, but is not practical for an existing house as a PP pointed out, unless you can easily expose the foundation--not likely)[/quote]

Lazy cheap sobs like you think maintenance is not practical[/quote]

Is this part of your sales pitch? Oh, I can see it now.[/quote]  That's not all.  He also tells them about the electrostatic activity and how sump pumps are smelly.  It must suck to be him when the homeowner lives in a townhouse, row house, or where the houses are close together and digging down from the outside is not an option.  Or where they have the room but it involves tearing up their patios, decks, landscaping, walkways, gardens, etc.  But yeah, you gotta love that Bithuthene.  Great stuff for sure.  Seals the outside of those walls real good.  Does nothing for groundwater at the footer level but nothing another plastic pip in the mud won't solve.[/quote]

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