While we were walking out of the door to go to church yesterday morning we found that water had come in downstairs and that saw that there was a puddle in the bathroom floor. The problem had become worse when we got back home that afternoon and water had moved to a couple of other rooms.
We didn’t know where the water was coming from. At first we thought that there was a leak behind the shower..drywall is dry…maybe the drain overflowed….water originated from a different place in the basement..toilet leaking…toilet is completely dry. It’s been raining at our house for a few days and the ground is completely saturated, so we figured that the rain had something to do with the problem.
We almost never have a problem with water coming into our basement, but like 85% of other homeowners it does happen at some point.
We hadn’t cleaned out the gutters yet this year, so Mom and I got on the roof and found that the guttering was very clogged up and probably played a role in the mischief. Being up on the roof in work clothes in the rain wasn’t in our plans for Easter, but you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.
Benjamin worked for hours and hours yesterday and today running the Shop Vac to suck up the water. He’s already emptied 100 gallons of water, but the water would just re-appear up to a certain level. Mom did some research this morning and found that probably what we have going on is a water table below our foundation that has filled up and can’t be absorbed into the very over-saturated ground. Benjamin found that the water was seeping up through a crack in the basement floor.
A sump pump should ensure that this never happens again, so in the near future we will be using a jackhammer to bust up the concrete to make way for the new pump.
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Water in the basement is no fun. Especially with the work and nice carpet you've done. Dad had to put a sump pump in the ground outside our house several years ago. It has helped a lot in keeping our basement dry. Hope you get it fixed soon.
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