>bought a house
>basement walls looked clean at the time, nothing in inspection
>move in two months later basement looks like this
how fricked am I?
>bought a house. >basement walls looked clean at the time, nothing in inspection
>bought a house
>basement walls looked clean at the time, nothing in inspection
>move in two months later basement looks like this
how fricked am I?
>how fricked am I?
Very
Is that mold?
Iirc in most places the have to disclose this, and not telling you and covering it up are fraud
You can get your money back and sue them.
That's efflorescence if I'm not mistaken. Time to dig your perimeter to the footings and re waterproof it. I did one entire side of my house myself with a friend, please do yourself a favor and rent a backhoe. Put tarp down where you dump your dirt or you'll never get it right again. I used blueskin and pimple board cus I'm insane but check your local codes. While you are down there, also look for cracks and grind them out and fill them.
On the other end of the spectrum, look for illegal additions to your neighbors house and see if it's fricking up the water table, they may be on the hook for some of this.
Don't know the english name, but it's essentially salts coming through with moisture through the concrete. You can waterproof it in various ways, but it's not a big problem if you don't care about moisture.
Better question is why is his soil so fricking salty? Does this affect vegetation or the plumbing in the yard?
salts could have been in the fill, in the aggregate for the concrete, heavy salting of a sidewalk/road, a old septic tank was there, there was a animal stale with manure decades ago etc.
Animal manure can cause the mortar to break down if it seeps from nearby deposits towards the wall. My parents house had that problem as a long toren down barn was once right next door. Causing saltpeter blooming through the wall tile joints. It can even heave them off off it as it builds up under them.
It’s not just sodium chloride, there is calcium and potassium chloride (etc.) as “salts”
A lot of new bricks generate a lot of efflorescence in their first few years, if it’s ugly (as it is on facing bricks) you have to come by every year or two and dissolve-off the efflorescence. We use like Nitric/Phosphoric acid.
>Just blast your foundation with acid bro
Holy shit
>all acid is the same
lol
>calls people morons
>doesn’t know what a question mark is for
Many such cases
>potassium chloride
potasium nitrate actually, op can make blackpowder with it.
fun fact in the middle ages there was a trade called salpeter boiler which dad the right to enter every house and remove stones and beams containing nitrate salts, which he took home and extractet the nitrate.
needless to say he was not a liked person,
It's in the cement.
>efflorescence
it's a nothing burger as long as it's not super damp and causing mold.
salt will straight up dissolve concrete duh
>two months
call an inspector then call your mortgage broker.
your wifes been cheating anon i am sorry
checked
this is just calcium and other minerals filtering through the cement/brick and drying out on the inside. its nothing bad, i had the same issue in an old apartment with exposed brick. we would vacuum it off twice a year. i had no drips, or other moisture issues.
if you see puddles, you will need to install a sump discharge system.
its about $200 a foot if you pay a professional
>how fricked am I?
uh.. not at all, moron ? Thats water from the ground, going through the wall. Your wall is breathing. Thats good. Wanna know what would be bad, moron? If you covered it up with a thick vinyl wallpaper.
Let the shit BREATHE like George floyd. Also the white shit on the wall are salts that come out with the water when it breaths with the inside walls.
How you fricking morons cant figure this shit out by yourselves and get your panties twisted, is says pretty much about this board of losers.
Put a dehumidifier in your basement btw.
problem is if there is a lot salt the salts will eventually clog the pores of the concrete, and the concrete will become wet,
it could be advisable to op to put a cheap lime plaster onto the basement walls, the salts will now cristalize in the plaster which falls of after a few years then you bust it off and put new plaster on the wall, this is how you remove the salts over time.
If theres water wanting to come in best way to do it would be give that water somewhere to go. Thatll be a lot of work. Backhoe, french drain, waterproof foundation from exterior
Get the carpet out of there, duh
Yes to dehumidifier
Yes to caring less
Put a dehumidifier down there.
Do not build out the space.
Put in shelving and store shit down there.
You can address moisture from inside or outside if you want to finish the space, but outside is infinitely better.
efflorescence. make sure you have proper gutters and grading to push the water away from the house. then dig & waterproof.
if the seller knew about this and tried to hide it then sue them.
It looks like house leprosy from Leviticus 14:33-57
house don't have leprosy bible man.
Hurr durr muh israelite translated kjv lies
Ya need gawd and jayzus
pretty sure they were scared of something like this
if you have this you are fricked, since it does destroy wood but it can also grow throught concrete and bricks,
even if you fix the leak in the attic it could be to late and the thing already draws water from under the foundation.
you need to cut out every infected beam a few meters into good wood, drill hundreds of holes into infected concrete and bricks and inject chemicals
and i forgot to say there is no fungicide that kills this shit, every fungicide not banned can only stop the fungus to infect new wood,
Methylbromide suposedly works but thats not so practical to apply in your house.
my dad claims that muritatc acid will work, but you need lab grade which is controlled access