Our neighbors have been complaining that their wet basement is caused by some problem in our house. There was indeed a fair amount of water that flowed in big rainstorms from our side, under the fence to their side, as the land slopes down toward them. We consulted a contractor and had a French drain built at the edge of our property to drain away the water, as well as a stone curb to keep any pooling water from flowing to their side. <\/p>\n
Today I get this email from him–which implies we’ve been ignoring his entries and have done nothing:<\/p>\n
“We got a fair amount of water in our basement last night through our adjoining wall, enough to cause damage and have the corner of our basement begin to powder. <\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our neighbors have been complaining that their wet basement is caused by some problem in our house. There was indeed a fair amount of water that flowed in big rainstorms from our side, under the fence to their side, as the land slopes down toward them. We consulted a contractor and had a French drain…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26061,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-51586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellar"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/12\/neighbors-wet-b\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Neighbor’s Wet Basement: My Fault?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/12\/neighbors-wet-b\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/12\/neighbors-wet-b\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Cellar","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"frabjousday"}],"creator":["frabjousday"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-12-02T10:45:40Z","datePublished":"2010-12-02T10:45:40Z","dateModified":"2010-12-02T10:51:59Z"},"rendered":"