Hi there, We have a patio slab behind the house and the basement wall directly below it is getting water stains when it rains.. The patio is sloped away from the house and has been mudjacked by the previous owner. The drain tile directly below the wall has been redone when we first bought the house because we got water in the same area when we lost power and drain tiles backed up, but the water came up from the floor where it meets the walll. We haven’t had a power outage since, it’s been more than 2 years. What could be the issue? We've been here for little over 2 years and it just started happening. Sump pump works. Thanks for any advice!

Hi, All -- Not sure if I'm posting this in the right spot, but here goes: My wife and I bought a house a month and a half ago and have since weathered a few rain storms without issue. This past week, however, has brought more rain and some snow, and there's now water seeping rather quickly into the basement. The water is coming in from multiple parts of the stone foundation along the walls, and quickly from a pinpoint hole in middle of the basement where a cement post meets the ground. The cement covers the chimney, but the water doesn't appear to be coming down the chimney, as it has a cap and the old ash and inner brick walls inside the clean out are dry. The water continues to flow for more than a day after the rain stops. I'm not sure yet how melted snow will exacerbate the issue. At the same time the water is coming in, it appears the issue is somehow connected to our mainline getting backed up from the street. We've had two plumbers and the city over to snake the mainline (102 feet to the street), so I know for sure at this point there's no blockage. The plumbers doubted the two issues could be connected, but the back up only happens during rain, so I'm having a difficult time discerning to two issues. I have a sump pump, which is keeping the water down, which is my only saving grace at the moment. The house is old (1910-ish) with an irregular unfinished basement. We're on a hill set back from a somewhat densely populated city street. The odd this is that when we visited the house multiple times before moving in (and once while it was raining) there was no evidence of water issues in the basement, which makes me fear this is all somehow self-inflicted. (I have reached out to the former owners to see if this is something they dealt with, but haven't heard back yet). Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Eli - At wit's end