Prepare yourself for one of the ugliest posts ever to grace this blog.  Sometimes when you’re renovating an older home, things are ugly.  It’s almost unavoidable.  When we first looked at this house and considered buying it, the basement was the obvious sore thumb.  It clearly had water issues because it felt humid, smelled dank and musty, and it was evident that carpeting had been removed (presumably after getting wet.)  With the carpet gone, the floor was a concrete slab with remnants of carpet glue and foam padding covering the entire surface.  But, I am the eternal optimist when it comes to homes, so I could look past that. We were informed that the basement flooding was not a regular occurrence, but it happened during a particularly heavy rain when the gutters were clogged.  We dealt with pretty significant water issues in our PA basement, so we were familiar with