Before Finishing Your Basement
Tips and advice for homeowners in Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, Fairborn Ohio
 Finishing your basement can increase the living space and value of your home. Before starting to finish your basement, you must ensure the area is dry, will stay dry all the time, and the foundation is solid and doesn't have any uncorrected bowed or cracked foundation walls.
The Basement Doctor is the basement authority!
Key factors to the long term success of a finished basement:
- Stopping moisture or water aka waterproofing
- Repairing any existing foundation wall problems
- Using materials resistant to mold
- Installing a dependable battery back-up sump pump
The Basement Doctor has seen tens of thousands of finished and unfinished basements with basement waterproofing problems ranging from dampness, to mold, to all-out flooding. If you are going to finish your basement, this is what we recommend to prepare it properly. If you already have finished your basement, the majority of these precautions can still be made.
The links below provide great info regarding prepping a basement for finishing:
- Install an effective waterproofing system.
- Install a reliable sump pump with alarm and back-up system.
- Guard against floods from frozen sump discharge lines.
- Seal and finish walls.
- Keep the floor warm, dry and comfortable.
- Protect against common plumbing leaks from ruining your finished basement.
- Inspect your basement windows.
- Dehumidify the space.
- Perform some basic exterior maintenance.
- Install safety egress windows so a finished basement has another point of escape.
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Learn why it is important to start any basement finishing job with a dry and structurally sound foundation!
Mold can become a major problem.
Call The Basement Doctor first!
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We perform basement finishing in Ohio communities such as Columbus (serving Worthington, Westerville, Reynoldsburg, Gahanna, Dublin, Powell, Pickerington, Grove City, Bexley, Grandview, Hilliard, Whitehall, New Albany, Upper Arlington, Marysville, Delaware, Marion, Delaware county, Franklin county), Cincinnati (servicing Dayton, Beavercreek, Xenia, Norwood, Wilmington, Fairfield, Hamilton, Kettering, Lexington and Louisville Kentucky).
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