Water sucks!
 

Friday evening, rain pours into our window wells. Leaves me with 1 1/2 feet of water in my wells before I realize. 2 inches of water in my - luckily unfinished - basement. Makes me clean up until 1:30am and makes me miss drinking beer.

Last night, God thinks I haven't had enough. Now, rain leaking in through the damn basement walls. I catch it early. But I'm have to go out in the pouring freakin' rain, with a broken shovel - damn dad took my good one - and dig trenches away from the house. 1 1/2 hours later, I made a little progress and the water leak is down to a dribble.


DAMN YOU WATER!!! DAMN YOU!

Wow. I didn't think it had rained that much. Sorry to hear about your troubles.

"AWWWWWWW... "

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Water sucks! It really really sucks!


GAAAAATORADE!

H2O

GAAAAAAAAAATORADE!

Geez, not you too.

build a berm(hope that is the right term for a hump of dirt) around the foundation. Looks better than a ditch and the wife gets a new flower bed

I don't actually live in Springfield. South Central Kansas. It rain like a mutha fugger here.

I happen to like water.

What a n00b :p


btw sorry to hear about your problems plow.

Subpump?

Most ran directly to the sump pump. But some I had to force there.

n00b.

I had the same problem about 4 years ago. Water came from all the neighbors into our backyard and went over the top of our window wells. Ended up putting a berm on the west side of our back yard and a waterway on the east side. We have a storm drain under our east fence and when we dug the waterway there just happened ;) to be a hole in the storm drain pipe at the end of the waterway.

Time to build a french drain.

http://www.askthebuilder.com/B70_Lin..._Systems.shtml

Darn it. I'm busy that day.

Thanks for the link.

YOU'WE DRINKIN' THE WRONG WATAAAAAAAA

What started out as "Ha ha - the parking lot is flooded", ended with 4 inches of water through out our office and me working a 15 hour day.

Plus, my basement flooded - AGAIN! Not nearly as bad this time. Had a guy come out and seal the foundation....which stopped a lot of the water. BUT, water started coming in through the new escape windows I put in. Not really a big deal at home. It's all still unfinished.

The office however was a complete mess. I had brand new - I just got it today - that now has damage on it. Computers messed up. Luckily, only 1 or 2 were actually on the ground, the rest sit on the desks for this very reason.

I've never seen a rain like this. Started about 3:30pm and rained heavy until 7:30pm. Stopped for 10 minutes, and started again. Didn't stop until nearly 9pm.

I like to remind myself and everyone else......WATER SUCKS!

No doubt, Mr. Plow. I can figure out most anything electical or structural, but water is unrelenting.

Screw gravity and the path of least resistance. I'm just tired of it.

I'm thinking of building a large bubble over my home.

Build it under your home as well. You might have something then.

I could be known as "Bubble Boy". Cool.

I just read on the news it already surrendered and is now the "German Drain".

ROFL

Good luck with that. Water is poopy. Stay on top of it as much as you can though, I hear that mold gets in the walls of your house, even the top floors, and is horrible for your health, especially if you have asthma. Best of luck!

It's BAAAAAAACK!

I think God is trying to drown the Phelps but he's about 2 1/2 hours SW of them.

We came within .5" of breaking the May rainfall record that was set in 1883.

Beat me to it! :banghead:

Like your not already! :)

Sorry to hear your problems. Here in Atlanta we are over 10 inches short for the year so far. We have fires and you have the water.

Good luck.

We're drowning and you're burning? Doesn't seem fair.

I'd guess that I've seen less rain in the two months since you started this thread than you have in the last hour alone. We do need some rain but it's been really dry and sunny here; perfect weather to be outside...

Well, I'm sure this knowledge makes you feel a lot better now.

I had that problem so I called Chuck Norris. Water does what Chuck TELLS it to do!!

Freezing water sucks as well.

All hell is supposed to break loose tonight. Predictions of 1-2 inches of ice. Freezing rain from 2p today until sometime Tuesday night or Wednesday.

I reiterate.....all forms of water suck.

my wife just wrecked my car. Women can't drive, especially in this shit. What a ****ing idiot.

Women have trouble driving on dry pavement let alone ice. Just use antifreeze.

They make window well hard clear plastic covers for this problem :)

That works......for the water coming down into the well. But when the water seeps down through the dirt and then up into the well, it really doesn't help.


I'm going to start a petition to ban water from Earth.

And in regards to the freezing rain......it'll never happen here in Hutch. I'm MUCH too prepared for it. Food. Baby food. Diapers. Generator. Firewood. Condoms. Lube. DVD copy of Debbie does Dallas. Salt for the driveway. Snow shovel. It's never gonna happen.

Have you ever hand dug a 6 inch deep, 30 foot long trench? I have and it sucks. Ya, I'm sure someone out there is going to say "you should have used a trencher." Let me save you the time and say it wouldn't of worked.

After the last damn rain, we dug that damn thing, laid a 4 inch pipe in it, and ran my down spouts into that pipe which empties WAAAAAAAAAY away from the house. Guess what happened.....IT HASN'T RAINED SINCE!

Fugg you Rain! I hope you.....errrr.....uhhh....I'm not sure what bad to wish upon rain, but whatever bad there is for rain, I'm for it.

Damn I wish we still had tags.

You should wish for evaporation. That'll show that damn rain!

3 years later, water still sucks ass.

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Ha, so now we know why you're selling.

I understand completely. My basement walls leak water when it rains a lot. It sucks.

We had a ton of water wednesday, then thursday we had 2 1/2 inches in 45 minutes, for a total of 4 inches that night alone, with several more inches on friday...

it misted all weekend, and now it's raining again....



awesome....

“The shingles on the roof blister, buckle, curl, and the rain comes through and collects on top of the ceiling plaster and drips down through the light fixtures. When it’s raining, we have to pull the fuses. You don’ dare turn on the lights. The house that Tyler rents, it has three stories and a basement. We carry around candles. It has pantries and screened sleeping porches and stained-glass windows on the stairway landing. There are bay windows with window seats in the parlor. The baseboard moldings are carved and varnished and eighteen inches high. The rain trickles down through the house, and everything wooden swells and shrinks, and the nails in everything wooden, the floors and baseboards and window casings, the nails inch out and rust.”

Gonzo and I have had the exact same problem w/ our basement since we bought our house. Water was filling up in our window well and coming in around the window. I finally had enough of the bs and corrected the problem for less than $100.

I installed a basic sump pump and hose attachment kit into the window well a couple of weeks ago and it works great! The only downside to doing this is when you try to sell your home, the buyers might be put-off by it. However, it can be explained WHY it was done and, depending on the buyer, you might not have a problem selling your home.

So here's what I did... First I took a pole digger and dug approx. 2 ft down into the window well. Put down landscape fabric, (this helps keep mud and debris from being sucked into the pump). Placed 3 layers of bricks in the well to form a "border" around the pump area, (in my case, I had leftover Dakota bricks from when I installed a new patio). Then I placed river rock on the outside of the brick border and up along the wall of mud, (this helps filter the water as well). Next, I took a square, plastic container and drilled several holes in the top half of all 4 walls.

Now for the sump pump: I placed it into the plastic container, (making damn sure that the float wouldn't hit anything!). Lastly... the "test"... I placed a garden hose in the plastic container and filled up the window well. I had to do some additional digging to drop the pump down so that the float would begin before the water got to the window. After a few adjustments to the float, BOOYAH! No water has entered our basement since, (and we have had some major downpours).

Btw, prior to this, I did install a "dry" French Drain. It works fairly well for moving the water away from the foundation, but if rain is directly hitting your window well area, it is full of fail.

So, if you plan on doing the sump pump installation... be prepared to get dirty. ;)

Best of luck to ya! :thumb:

I always thought that window wells are constructed with perimeter drain pipe extending up the wall vertically into the well to drain the well? Is this not the case on all homes? Only newer homes....:shrug:

I think it depends on when the house was built. I believe they do that standard now w/ new home construction. But, as far as older homes, (like ours... built in '65), we don't have any perimeter drain pipes. We do, however, have a sump pump in the lowest area of our basement, but that SOB doesn't kick on unless the water table is extremely high.

was up until 4 a.m. bailing water out of my basement

started even leaking through the seams in the basement foundation :(

have double sump pumps and they could barely keep up. Backup battery went dead ... if power had gone out for even an hour the basement would of been a swimming pool.

As it was i had about an inch of water with me bailing like i was in a row boat during a monsoon. :cuss:

i'm tired and bitchy

How is that different from any other day? :p

not much ... i need to kick someone around.

where's Billay?



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Grandpa was smart enough to make the basement floor concave so that everythings runs to a big drain.

Why didn't you just dig the trench with your plow, Mr. Plow?

I pulled 6 gallons of water out of our carpet this morning. I'm hoping fans and a dehumidifier can take care of the rest. I'll tell our landlord, but there probably isn't much he can do.

Thankfully we don't live in Oklahoma City.

YEah, I'm dealing with this shit too. SUCKS.

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Water still sucks.

2 inches of water in the basement of our soon to be new house. Luckily, unfinished basement. Of course I have all the drywall purchased through the contractor sitting down there....oh well....his problem, not mine. He should of gotten the house all sealed up 3 weeks ago.

3 offices at work with water in them.

Been extracting water all morning and I'm already tired.


Well played water.....well played.

Have you ever considered moving to a drier climate?

Its dry down here in the Ozarks.

Oh yeah, but the wife wants to come with me.

I fixed all the drainage problems on my yard ( 1 acre) by going out side during the rain storm and tracking the flow of ground water. Diverting the water is the best way to fix the problem but there are times where this can't be done.

You do know that you can dig your sump pump hole deeper and add another pump if you want.

We've got a walk out pit which has a 2nd sump in it....they just haven't put it in yet. Luckily, it is unfinished and we haven't taken possession yet....so it's really not my problem - yet...

We had a couple basement windows with window wells in my parents' house growing up and they were a never-ending problem. That was actually one of my disqualifiers when looking for houses a few years ago. Good luck with your basement.

Okay, I know you guys aren't trying to be mean, but I should let you know that I'm 53 percent water.

Waters absolutely sucks.

I can't believe that fat outta shape slow **** is still on the roster.

I blame Mr. Chow.