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Sorry, my bad,
I will update you now.
we had/have a lot of snow. well, it decided to warm up and rain for a couple of days.
being as the ground is still frozen about 4 feet down, the water cannot soak in.
this has never happened to us in out 50+ years in this house: the water decided to fill in the two window wells on the west end of the house. and during the night, it seeped into the basement. we have a full 12oo sq ft basement. the water covered the whole floor 4 inches deep. since we had that ice dam in the septic system, we could not just push the water down the floor drain..
so we bought a transfer pump, 1 HP, and sucked the water off of the floor and up the stairs and outside. this went very well for a couple of hours until the pump burned out.
actually it did not burn out, one of the brushes slipped and jammed the armature.
I did everything short of tearing the pump apart to get that brush out. finally gave up and took the pump back to Menard's. Of course , due to all the water problems in the area, they and nobody else in town had a pump left..
so we used the shop vac, mop and squeeze bucket and carpet cleaner..
things are quite dry now except for the carpet in my office. we have fans , heaters and dehumidifiers running 24/7. gradually gaining on it..
I didn't post all this because I didn't want to bore anyone. but since you asked:
btw , I did get rid of the ice dam in the septic and put in a new lift pump..
Now we could use the floor drain if needed.
.........jiminwisc.......
 
jvls1942 said:
Sorry, my bad,
I will update you now.
we had/have a lot of snow. well, it decided to warm up and rain for a couple of days.
being as the ground is still frozen about 4 feet down, the water cannot soak in.
this has never happened to us in out 50+ years in this house: the water decided to fill in the two window wells on the west end of the house. and during the night, it seeped into the basement. we have a full 12oo sq ft basement. the water covered the whole floor 4 inches deep. since we had that ice dam in the septic system, we could not just push the water down the floor drain..
so we bought a transfer pump, 1 HP, and sucked the water off of the floor and up the stairs and outside. this went very well for a couple of hours until the pump burned out.
actually it did not burn out, one of the brushes slipped and jammed the armature.
I did everything short of tearing the pump apart to get that brush out. finally gave up and took the pump back to Menard's. Of course , due to all the water problems in the area, they and nobody else in town had a pump left..
so we used the shop vac, mop and squeeze bucket and carpet cleaner..
things are quite dry now except for the carpet in my office. we have fans , heaters and dehumidifiers running 24/7. gradually gaining on it..
I didn't post all this because I didn't want to bore anyone. but since you asked:
btw , I did get rid of the ice dam in the septic and put in a new lift pump..
Now we could use the floor drain if needed.
.........jiminwisc.......
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Oh man, i bet that was cold water! What a pain for you!
 
Annie just got finished moving a dehumidifier and an electric heater into my office/computer room. plus a fan.. going to raise the temp into the 80F range to get the water to evaporate better.. with the door closed this shouldn't take too long..
this summer I am going to fill the window openings with concrete and fill in the window wells with dirt. we don't need them for light or ventilation anyway..
 
jvls1942 said:
Sorry, my bad,
I will update you now.
we had/have a lot of snow. well, it decided to warm up and rain for a couple of days.
being as the ground is still frozen about 4 feet down, the water cannot soak in.
this has never happened to us in out 50+ years in this house: the water decided to fill in the two window wells on the west end of the house. and during the night, it seeped into the basement. we have a full 12oo sq ft basement. the water covered the whole floor 4 inches deep. since we had that ice dam in the septic system, we could not just push the water down the floor drain..
so we bought a transfer pump, 1 HP, and sucked the water off of the floor and up the stairs and outside. this went very well for a couple of hours until the pump burned out.
actually it did not burn out, one of the brushes slipped and jammed the armature.
I did everything short of tearing the pump apart to get that brush out. finally gave up and took the pump back to Menard's. Of course , due to all the water problems in the area, they and nobody else in town had a pump left..
so we used the shop vac, mop and squeeze bucket and carpet cleaner..
things are quite dry now except for the carpet in my office. we have fans , heaters and dehumidifiers running 24/7. gradually gaining on it..
I didn't post all this because I didn't want to bore anyone. but since you asked:
btw , I did get rid of the ice dam in the septic and put in a new lift pump..
Now we could use the floor drain if needed.
.........jiminwisc.......
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I feel for you
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and this is why I don't have carpet in the basement and most things are on shelves and pallets. My walls tend to leak in situations like this... no window wells and a walk out door to the outside.. if the sump fails it just goes out the door
 
CapricornFarm said:
Oh man, i bet that was cold water! What a pain for you!
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sure was cold.
with all that water the dog still prefers to drink out of the toilet.. LOL
yesterday Annie and I were talking about how we would do things differently if we could live our lives over..
NO window wells was one of the first things that came up..
My friend lives in a marshy area. He doesn't have a basement, but does have a crawl space. two sump pumps going.
and the water still came up to touch the bottom of his floor boards..He has to tear out all the subfloor. today he is moving all of his furniture into his garage..
as long as he is at it, he is going to put in sister joists and level the floors. updating his electrical and some plumbing..
the worst thing about his project, it will keep him from going fishing as much as he likes..
 

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