Flooded basement

[mikespenturningz]

Well got up this morning to find almost two inches of water in my basement. I have been battling it all day long. I have never had water like this before and it isn't fun at all. Well back to in the hole for me..

 

[winterwood]

That is not good, I hope your basement was not finished.

 

[SteveJ]

Hope you have found and fixed the leak!

 

[Edward Cypher]

That sucks!! Hope you do not get mold.

 

[mikespenturningz]

My basement is not finished but I do make my pens there. I have of course dried that area up. The water table here is so high it is just coming up through the floor no leak just water table.

 

[tim self]

When I moved into my house 10 yrs ago, there was a large hole in the basement floor. I figured it had been an old well as it was rock lined and about 10 ft down. After finding about 3-4" of water in the floor one day I found out the real use for it. It is a relief well to allow ground water to be removed before the basement could flood. I had to remove all that water with a wet/dry vac. Now it's equipped with a sump pump just for that purpose.

Good luck with the labor.

 

[kovalcik]

Sorry to hear that. Luckily, our sump pump has been working, otherwise I would be in your shoes.

 

[Band Saw Box]

We'll keep you in our prayers Mike. Hope none of your pens were effected. Is there any thing you and do to keep the water out?

 

[mikespenturningz]

I am not sure Dan if there is anything I can do. This is the first time it has done this. I am thinking about getting someone to come look but who. Is this a plumber thing or a mason thing? I think a recess in the floor would be a great start then I can keep a sump pump in it?

 

[carlmorrell]

We had one on the house we grew up in. At first we just had a small hole. And the pump sat over the hole with a pipe dropping down. Years later, we put a much larger hole in, like 2 feet x 2 feet x 2 feet. and lined it with bricks. Then we kept a sump pump in the hole permanently with a float switch. It keep the basement from flooding every time it rained. But we still got overrun a few times in the 60 years they lived there. :frown:

 

[bobjackson]

I've had over 12 inches twice. Keep everything over a foot from the floor. Good luck, I know what you're going through.