[mongocanfly]

Ogre I agree with what you are saying but I have a buddy that has spent a small fortune on a leaking basement.. his block walls are poured solid with concrete, the outside walls are coated with tar and even have tar paper stuck to it on outside, french drain around the outside at the bottom, backfilled with gravel and another french drain just below ground level and the inside walls painted with damtite. All this was done when the house was built..I couldn't believe it but he had water spraying between the blocks like it was under pressure. He had several reputable companys "fix" the problem. No luck still did the same thing. Finally they came in redid french drain around the outside, he now has 4 runs of drains around outside.on inside they sandblasted the walls and sprayed some kind of rubber coating on it and then put fiberglass sheeting on that with a glued down rubber baseboard about an inch from the wall that goes around to a sump pump that runs about all the time..his house is on top of a red dirt hill that's never had water running out of it..he's just one.. I know of a bunch more that have similar problems..may just be our area..