[stealthn]

We had our basement looked at when we started to build it in. We used a company called basement systems, the options were dig around the outside a refinish the walls properly, or do it on the inside. Basically they said water will get in travel down the walls then into a slotted trough that goes around the basement and is channeled to the sump. They also drilled through the walls at the window wells (below the ground surface) and put a pipe in that goes inside the house then in vertically troughed to the channel in the floor.

Framing in moved out an inched and plyed on both sides. We put in a suspended floor.

Our basement is guaranteed not to leak for the life of the house.