If the wall in my basement is leaking very slightly, is the main/only solution to the actual water issue to add grading outside? What else?
It is under a deck, which I can rip up a bit and fill with dirt, but is that likely to solve it?
We noticed from slightly bubbling paint and efflorescence.
If you have brick or concrete down there, make sure the wall isn’t cracking in the wrong way
Is it better for the cracks to go side to side or up and down?
I have just heard that, for brick walls, stairstepping is really bad. Or cracks in a wall that connects to a crack in a floor.