Re: plywood for basement walls vs. other

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Felice,

I would never use anything on basement walls as it may hide problems

developing behind it. Paint the concrete walls with something like

DryLock or if you can find a low VOCs version of it or just paint

will lessen the porosity of concrete. If there is musty smell you

don't want to block it, hide it or cover it up, you want to find

where it is coming from and CLEAN or REPAIR it.

Locate any porosed surfaced and make them non poroused with paint

like wood beams, bare concrete walls.

Do you have wood beams in ceiling of basement, if so it could be

musty dust up there or in places you haven't been able to reach.

Wood beams should be vaccumed, clean, spritzed with ammonia or other

detoxification method and painted with low VOC paint and then they

are easier to keep clean and if smell is coming from there, that

should solve.

Denshield I think is good product and would be good for porch or

even inside interior of house but I wouldn't put it up in basement.

Are the basement walls cinderblock. If so, even if you have stopped

wall instrusion problem, there could still be mold inside the cinder

block and further work may be necessary. You can inject holes in

cinder block with something that fills holes up so they aren't

hollow and cannot hold water. This might help. Do you have

something like Drylock paint on walls?

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> Think it's ok to use PLYWOOD in basement to build walls to help

someto keep musty smell down there?? A contractor suggested this

might help a bit.

> Ever hear on DENSHIELD?

> It's the newer version of Greenaboard, better for moisture. It's

acrylic coated glassmat faced treated gypsum board. (i looked it up.)

> My basement is feeling very dry now with the dehumidifier. felice

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