Originally Posted by
Rick Hurst
We don't have basements here in the Dallas area or anywhere much in Texas that I'm aware of. Just looking at your photos' though I have a question or observation. Why is there no moisture on the backside of the carpeting tackstrip and only on the front side. Sure appears to be evenly distributed looks like.
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No basements here either, but from the looks of it, like Rick said, it appears to be seeping through up from inside the tackless strips.
I'm guessing that the footing was poured, the basement foundation walls placed and poured on top of the footing, then the basement slab poured inside the inside perimeter of the footing, leaving a cold joint, and an unsealed joint, all the way around the basement inside edge of the footing where the slab was poured to.