Least expensive usually translates to least effective. The cheapest choice for damp-proofing a basement is usually a coating of waterproofing paint, like Drylok sealer on the interior masonry walls.
Use card board and reinforce with wood strips
This is called efflorescence and is the result of water moving through the concrete and depositing dissolved calcium salts. The best and most expensive way to solve it is to dig alongside and expose your basement walls so they can be waterproofed with membranes, french drains and perhaps insulated. However there are products you can apply on the inside which form a waterproof membrane on the inside, such as UGL's Drylok. It definitely improves your basement and prevents moldy, musty smells etc. Follow the directions for the product you choose.
Working your passage.
Prevention is better than treatment Waterproofing is the best way to prevent basement water seepage. Ensuring your basement is dry at all times is the best way to safeguard the integrity of your structure. Additionally, you'll protect your family's health from diseases that come because of cold. At Zavza Seal, we use high-quality material from leading manufacturers when waterproofing your basement. Our work process follows strict control measures.
It could be very expensive depending on the extent. The price could be $500 all the way into thousands. Let me know what you want to do exactly and I will give you better estimate.
There are some exotic woods that are water 'resistant' but all are way too expensive for common use anyway. Teak is about the most practical.
The Type of plastic that they use is one way that made it waterproof
Well, walking is probably the cheapest.
Hitch Hike
Well it is a basement designed (and finished) any way you want it to be.
probably bus or amtrak
The basement is the level in your house below ground level. To say it another way, you would be below the ground if you were in a basement.