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03-29-2009, 08:57 PM | #2 |
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Is your water meter spinning like Clark Griswold's electric meter on Christmas Eve?
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03-29-2009, 08:57 PM | #3 |
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Dry Basement installed my sump pump system. I'll probably start there with a call in the morning. Man this is going to suck.
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03-29-2009, 08:58 PM | #4 |
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03-29-2009, 09:22 PM | #5 |
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Water doesn't flow up unless it has saturated everything and exhausted all paths of lesser resistance. You've got problems and you're right. It's not generally my thing.
Is it clean water or stinky? Check with the water dept to find out your usage first. If that's normal check with a plumber who owns a scope to check your main stack out. Those steps are comparably cheap before calling out the foundation guys. I'm guessing your tile system is compromised. |
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03-29-2009, 09:52 PM | #7 |
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03-29-2009, 09:55 PM | #8 |
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03-29-2009, 10:01 PM | #9 |
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Just "accidentally" leave a space heater too close to the curtains, that'll fix it for sure.
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03-29-2009, 10:09 PM | #11 |
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If you have a nearby river, lake, or canal that is running high you could be getting hydrostatic pressure from below. But this is probably something that you would've noticed before.
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03-29-2009, 10:24 PM | #12 |
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Yeah, nothing like that. The worst I have is that my neighbors behind me live elevated relative to my position, and I get all their runoff. I put in the sump pump system and a huge concrete patio in the backyard (when I moved in, there was a patio made of bricks), along with a plastic drainage pipe that I laid down that runs around to the front yard. Since the sump pump, I've had zero problems with water in the basement until now.
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03-30-2009, 06:07 AM | #13 |
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How much water are we talking about?
Another possible situation, is that the ground water from rain/snow has oversaturated the soil below the floor slab. The pressure has thus been relieved itself by going through the concrete if an improper vapor reeruner was installed. (Most likely it was because in most residential units they use sub-par vapor reeruners or it is installed incorrectly.) |
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Do the smart thing.....move.
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