Do You Need To Finish The Basement After It's Been Water Proofed?

Do you need to finish the basement after it's been water proofed? After waterproofing your basement, it is up to you as to whether or not you refinish it. If you've got the full solution put in the basement,...

If you've got the full solution put in the basement, you have this very nice white substance on the walls. Some people leave that up, compared to what it was, it can look amazingly different. But if you want to, you can put a flow out valve and build a wall around it. A lot of people leave it because it is very nice and clean looking. It's very bright and it will stay that way; it's very durable stuff. The floor is put back to its original condition in concrete and then the white walls. So you could come back and put carpet down. You should feel great comfort in being able to put carpet down, because the system is going to catch all the moisture. You can use a lot of other things and hope that it will catch the water and work; but if it doesn't, then everything you put in there, carpet and baseboard, and even the treatment on the walls has to be replaced.

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