Any advice for dealing with repeated flooding of our brownstone basement because of water problems next door? Three times since this neighbor bought the house next door, we have had significant (inches) of water come through from this neighbor’s brownstone into our basement. Tonight I detected a smell at the top of our basement stairs (even with door closed) and when I investigated (going into my basement) I found again there had been water only on that neighbor’s side of our basement, clearly coming through the wall from his house. This has happened twice before, and after the second time we installed a pump in our basement adjacent to the wall we share with him. I’m sure that pump saved us from even more water damage this time around, but one pump was not really enough to handle water coming in up and down most of the length of wall. We went next door to talk to him and learned his flood was actually several days ago (he never bothered to tell us). We have our dehumidifier on now and that should help things dry out, but in general, what can one do about water coming from a neighbor who seems not to be able to stop flooding his own basement (and therefore ours too).Is there a way to waterproof our shared wall (at least on our side)? I’m still fairly new to brownstone home ownership and I have no idea if there is anything we can do on our side to protect our property. This time he claimed the inches of water somehow came up from underground (he says there was no pipe leak). Maybe he has faulty drainage from his back garden, who knows. Previously he flooded us (twice) when he forgot to empty out and shut off the garden faucet for the winter. Both times the resulting inches of water on his side caused a smaller number of inches of water in our basement too, which took weeks to dry out properly. Any advice much appreciated. Is there a way to waterproof the walls to keep water out when neighbors have repeated floods? This is our third flood and I’m guessing it won’t be the last coming from this neighbor’s property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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