no Zan, i'm estimating clean-up to take @ least a week initially and reorganization another 3....i have to take my time after i get the 'wet' out, otherwise you'll know me as 'blownbackNJ'
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no Zan, i'm estimating clean-up to take @ least a week initially and reorganization another 3....i have to take my time after i get the 'wet' out, otherwise you'll know me as 'blownbackNJ'
no Zan, i'm estimating clean-up to take @ least a week initially and reorganization another 3....i have to take my time after i get the 'wet' out, otherwise you'll know me as 'blownbackNJ'
Sorry to hear of your mess, AnnamariaNJ. I can sympathize...I've got a house with a cinderblock basement that will occasionally leak if we get enough rain. Still trying to decide the best way to seal the leaky part up.
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Who has a sump with an on off switch? What is the point? Get an automatic sump.
you're ab-so-toot-ley right, but i had no clue that's what the deal was...now, i can tell you that the brand new pump was in there, but----never hooked up!
ok, here we go again...
I've got a raised ranch (garage and basement are half down and upstairs is half up), the garage is about 3 inches lower, and has the sump pump hole,
I've got an automatic sump pump (water sensing switch) and a backup sump pump (uses the same output PVC and is slightly above the regular sump pump and has a battery to run on if power goes out).
The stuff in the garage is mostly off the floor (shelves on the wall - not standing on the floor, bikes on a rack on the wall).
Good luck with the clean up,
our floods have not really gotten anything damaged, just water that needed to get pumped out that got ahead of the sump pump.
FWIW, if you are concerned about flooding and power-outages you can also get a water-powered backup sump-pump. (Needs city water though, as if you have a well it's pump won't work without power either).
As for preventing the water from getting it at all.... the best fix is from the outside:
Make sure the ground is sloping away from the house. Depending where the house is situation (bottom of a hill for example) that may not be enough. In not, prefered fix is to dig out all around the foundation, install new weeping tile, waterproof membrane on the outside of the foundation, backfill. Coatings on the inside tend to fail, as the hydraulic pressure that forces the water through the foundation will pop the coating right off (they do work for minor leaks). Second best solution is to cut through the basement floor around the perimeter, install weeping tile, a sump pit and sump pump.
He's right, those are all pretty good plans. If you were to dig around the perimiter of your basement and just put in a healthy layer of gravel it would do wonders for basically draining before it got to your basement walls. Unfortunately there isn't much you can do in a flood situation, even with the weeping tile and all, besides getting your stuff of the ground and cleaning up afterwords.
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