I have a wet basement problem in this exceptionally wet summer. The lower part of one wall is wet along with the floor for about 1 foot from the wall. I have read all the threads about wet basement solutions. The wall happens to be in the front of the house. I planned on adding a covered front porch that would be the length of the house. Will this take care of the wet basement problem?

I have a nightmare situation in my basement. The first section of my house was built in the thrities in Boise, Idaho. This is the section that contains the basement. Needless to say the walls are spalling. I don't think that I have a moisture problem Boise only gets 25" of precip a year. The problem is that over the years there has been many jobs done to "improve" the basement. the walls are a mess I started to try and clean them last night by chipping out the spalling concrete (with white chalky powder in them) then wire brushing them to accept the concrete patching material. What I found was this. There are old patches with rocktite or similar then there are places that look as if they had used plaster or spackling to fill in rough areas. On top of this there has been numerous layers of paint the last two look like they were put on top of an unacceptable base as they are peeling quite easily from the other layers. The room was preiously poorly finished with one drywalled interior wall the other three walls are as described above. I just had the wall cut and have the egress window on order with a new window well etc. I tend to think in extremes and home depot etc is uselss for ideas. Q: Do I sand blast the entire room to get to bare concrete walls again? do I hang sheet rock on top of 2x2's to hide the ugly concrete walls? is there a good chemical cleaner / primer that will let new paint go on?