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Even a basement with no seepage
problems during a heavy rain does
not guaranty the basement will
remain permanently dry. A single
rain may or may not result in
seepage. A heavy rain may not raise
the groundwater level sufficiently
to cause water to seep through the
foundation walls.
Moisture problems are also
intermittent. In some houses, water
penetration will occur after
virtually every rain. In other
houses, it will occur only after
periods of prolonged rain, and in
still others, it will only happen
with wind driven rain or during a
spring thaw.
Since reasonably all basements will
leak at some point, the question is
probably not, "Will the basement
leak?" but, "When and How often it
will leak?"
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