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Post by Meph on Feb 25, 2016 4:52:40 GMT
I would love to be sleeping right now but I have been in a continuous battle for the last 5 hours or so with water. This is my game room currently. Most of my gaming stuff is stacked on the tables and my arcade machines all had to be moved. What's worse is there is about 3 times as much water in my garage right now. THe storm drains are backing up and it's pushing it right into my game room. The second picture was about an hour ago. I was just considering bed until I checked my garage. That was filling back up and the water was just starting to push into my game room again. Gonna be a long night. I know what my projects will be come spring.
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Post by jennifer on Feb 25, 2016 5:10:01 GMT
Sorry you're having to deal with that. That sucks. Hope it all gets resolved soon.
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Post by margaret on Feb 25, 2016 8:12:15 GMT
Sorry you are having to deal with this. Hope all your stuff survived OK.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Feb 25, 2016 8:17:58 GMT
yeah water in the basement is a common thing around here. we got brutal winter/springs everytimes.
i hope you didn't lose anything really important.
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Post by Meph on Feb 25, 2016 11:43:47 GMT
Nah, I didn't lose anything. Since this is the first winter in the house I am prepared for anything. I had everything of importance already up off the ground and the few things I had out from recent use were easily moved. It was just a long night. Went to bed at midnight, back up at 3 to check on it, back up at 6. Supposed to rain more today so we'll see. Probably be snaking the storm drains today.
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Post by curufin on Feb 25, 2016 12:09:13 GMT
I had the same problem at my old house. Roots in the storm drain were only part of the problem. The house was at a low grade and whenever the water table was high (like if it rained two days in a row) the ground water would push through the cracks in the basement floor. I could easily get a couple of inches of standing water if a few hours if is wasn't constantly dealt with. I ended up breaking through floor, digging a 3 foot hole, and dropping a sump pump at the bottom. Basically I was trying to keep the water table lower than the house. It was a constant battle, and if it rained and rained, the pump just couldn't keep up. It makes me feel ill seeing the water you are dealing with. Im very sorry. I know what a harsh mistress mother nature can be.
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Post by Meph on Feb 25, 2016 13:03:17 GMT
Well my father and I are going to do some work today and walk the property to figure out exactly what is going on with the drainage tile. I have a sump hole with twin pumps in it out in the garage. There are 2 drainage tile pipes that run into that pump. You can see on the garage floor where they hammered the floor and put in the drainage tile. It passes right by the garage drain and then straight under the door into my basement. It runs across the whole basement into the game room where that other drain is.
The problem is, when all that water is sitting in those rooms the water is flowing slowly from that drain pipe into the sump pump. Somewhere along the line in the 12 feet from the garage drain to the sump pump, something is blocking it and only letting a little water pass. I need to get that cleared up and hopefully that will alleviate this problem.
On the flip side, there is that other drain pipe running into my sump pump and that sounds like a waterfall it's moving so much water. Problem is I don't know what is feeding that. The gutters all eject out into the yard so I really don't know where that drain pipe is coming from.
It all sucks but it's an easy solution and not too expensive. My father has 2 Kubota tractors both with back buckets. This spring we will be tearing up this yard and putting in new drainage tile all over the place and tying it into the deep ditch that is just on the treeline between me and the neighbor. He dug it when they built the house and it crosses under his driveway and empties into the large stream that runs downhill and away from us.
The more water I move away from the house, the less I have to deal with inside the house. It sucks but I half expected this when I bought the place.
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Post by voodoo on Feb 25, 2016 16:39:11 GMT
Aaaaw man this blows! So sorry to see this. Glad you didn't lose anything too important except sleep. It's good to hear that you have the ability to dig up the yard later. Keep us posted if you have time. Good luck with everything!
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Post by DnDPaladin on Feb 25, 2016 16:48:37 GMT
so many things could be making this happen... at our old house in the other city. we had 2 pumps in the basement, but to no avail when heavy raining wouldhappen, cause we had an underground river passing by the house. used to be an old well the city was using until they closed it to put the city watering onto the new stuff. once that was cloed the water would go up everytimes and everyone in the street had water problems since then. thats one of the reason we moved away 20 years ago.
the new house in the city... heavy rains would have my windws getting full of water and they would have to let water pass at some point. that problem came from the frozen ground not letting water pass by, so the small pits in front of the windows were getting full. that problem was solved by making the water from the outside garage flow elsewhere then near the house. the garage had a french drain, my father was hoping it would be enough, but it seemed not. then came the water from the main door. not finding any problems there my father had to dig up the concrete wall outside to find out his pitch was gone. he had to redo the whole of the exterior foundation walls. lots of work making a house safe.
we've been fine for the last 5 years now.. but every winters we're checking out on heavy rains. just to make sure.
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Post by skunkape on Feb 25, 2016 18:03:53 GMT
I remember when we had a cottage in New York, we only visited during the sprint/summer, but when we first showed up there every year, we had to do work in the crawl space to clear the water that would always collect there. We really didn't have a basement, but I can only imagine what it would have been like if it was. Good luck with your issue, I also hope you don't loose anything to the water!
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Post by michka on Feb 26, 2016 13:51:00 GMT
Seeing these photos is giving me flashbacks. This happens to me almost every year. Our basement floods whenever we have a serious storm with heavy rain fall. We don't have a sump pump so we use a wet/dry vacc and buckets to get the water out. Truly back braking work. I can feel your pain.
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Post by wilmanric on Feb 27, 2016 0:01:38 GMT
Yikes! Sorry to see that! What part of the world are you in?
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Post by Meph on Feb 27, 2016 0:23:52 GMT
Central New York, about 10 minutes outside of Syracuse.
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