damp basement
Humid below-ground room
A damp basement is the lower level of a building where moisture has accumulated, typically from groundwater seepage, poor drainage, or humidity.
The phrase often appears in real estate listings as a warning or in discussions of home repair: The damp basement needed waterproofing before we could finish it.
Damp basements breed mold and musty odors.
- mustyStale from dampness
- moldForm-giving container
- mildewFungus from dampness
- concreteSolid building mixture
- moistureSmall amounts of liquid
humid · dehumidifier · radon gas · sump · pump · sump pump · wet · dank · clammy · crawlspace · pipes · flooding · seepage · walls · drip · puddle · cobwebs · spider webs
- musty smellsdank, fusty, mildew, mold smell, mold spores
- earthy smellspetrichor, mud, clay, humus, compost