water

[low_delta]

Torrential rains again, and running water in my basement again. I've lived here for three and a half years, and never had the problem before this summer. It's getting old. I couldn't even enjoy the storm.

I went out to take the trash to the curb, and there was constant lightning coming over the northwestern horizon. It was nearly half an hour before the rain started. It was coming down pretty hard, with a thirty mile an hour wind. It lasted about thirty minutes.

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[vlinker.livejournal.com]

sump pumps have this tendancy to fail when needed........and i think it a poor idea to hold any water close to the foundation......are their contractors available to mud-jack (prolly with sand and a little portland cement) a sidewalk cost effectively?.......

in my biz, there are three causes for a foundation to go bad.......water, water, and water.....

uphill from my house, about 1/4 mile, there is a house being built on a spring.......the naive owner-builder is making a mess that will never really "go away" until they spend some serious $$ and get that subsurface drainage routed appropriately.....i see a musty moldy crawlspace/basement in those people's future.....and should we be subject to a bit of strong ground motion........and EQ in the 7 range, i foresee a bit of unplanned home movement relative to the yard......there hasn't been work on the site for a few weeks.........i'm hoping the city has shut them down and requiring that they get a plan for dealing with the water........the little sump pump they have is not an effective solution.......

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Actually, I was thinking of a pump that I could take outside when it storms and pump the water over a rise, so it makes it into the back yard, instead of pooling up right there.

And I'm onyl half serious about it.

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[vlinker.livejournal.com]

that means you always have to be home in a storm......not a good passive solution

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

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[vlinker.livejournal.com]

of course, it might just be what gets ya by until a permanent fix can be done........