On Dec 26 2015 4:27 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 26 December 2015 03:50:00 EBo wrote: > >> On Dec 25 2015 7:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > On Friday 25 December 2015 18:06:27 Jon Elson wrote: >> >> On 12/25/2015 03:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> > No white Christmas here, steady rain, long enough my >> >> > basement floor is getting wet. Darnit! I need to deepen >> >> > the sump pump pit another 6 feet I guess. Or get a hoe in >> >> > here with a 15 foot arm and put in a french drain that deep. >> >> >> >> The glue job I did on the two cracks in our basement is >> >> still holding, and we've had enough rain on a couple >> >> occasions that we would have had major puddles before the >> >> fix. So, that is really good news! I've got stuff piled >> >> all over the place, often in cardboard boxes, so flooded >> >> floors really made a mess. >> > >> > I've been gradually, as I can catch stuff dry, transfering it to >> > plastic >> > tub containers. Still need another dozen or so to get it all >> > protected. >> > >> > Dee must have 10 grand in copyrighted sheet music from her >> teaching >> > days >> > in cardboard boxes yet. >> > >> > Not to mention old family pix and such that go back 100+ years. >> And >> > a few >> > hundred lbs of old records, some even hill & dale recordings for a >> > windup Victrola that hasn't had a windup key ever on my watch for >> > the last 26 years. The rocker/crib she was a baby in, 75+ yo now >> > just like >> > her. Heck, my reloading bench dates from about 1960-61 when Annie >> & >> > I moved to the Black Hill's & we had deer standing around waiting >> > for a dinner invite from a 30-06. We ate well even when the cash >> > was thin. ;-) >> > >> >> Our last house had a foundation that leaked literally like a >> >> sieve, there were thousands of leaks, no hope of ever fixing it. >> > >> > Thats this one, the only way to fix it is bring in a crane, >> > disconnect >> > it, and set it down all cockeyed nearly blocking the street, >> > demolish this basement, dig and pour a new one all in one piece, >> no >> > damned blocks, with lots of wire mesh re-enforcement, & set the >> > house back on >> > it, raising the house about a foot in the process because the >> > basement >> > ceiling is a good foot too low. As if thats going to happen on >> whats >> > left of my watch... It might be the last thing I start, and we >> > don't have THAT kind of money by a factor of at least 2. >> >> Still not ideal, but have you thought of digging out around the stem >> wall and pouring an external wrap around it? That does not fix the >> 1' >> to low basement, but at least it fixes the intrusion problem. >> >> EBo -- > > "stem wall"? Not a term I am familiar with, sorry. The front wall in > particular, has the roots of a row of burning bush we planted too > close > pushing it inward, and that has caused a slight inward bulge halfway > up > the wall, crack width less than 1/16", but no water appears to be > coming > it from that. Its all around the base of the wall, up to 3, maybe 4" > above the poured floor. In any event, if we can keep the water pumped > out, it will outlast us, at which point my kids can do whatever with > it. > Dee never had any of her own. Its paid for & has been for nearly 20 > years now. One of the boys, recently remarried to a great woman, has > been looking for a place in WV, and has even explored the possibility > of > getting a transfer to here as his employer has a terminal here in WV > too.
Stem walls go below the floor slab, and foundation walls go above the slab. I am used to having stem walls even with basements, but that might just be the building codes back in NM. (see http://www.infoforbuilding.com/types-of-house-foundations.html) This is what I was talking about with the perimeter drain field: http://www.aquaguardinjection.com/residential/concrete-block-foundation-waterproofing/interior-weeping-tile-system http://www.foundationprosfl.com/exterior-basement-waterproofing.html I have also known people to install rain gutter pipes that go a LONG way from the house to move the water as far away as possible. There was also one story I heard of a family that installed a wall up slope from their house to divert overland flow when they got a good rain. I think that helped them some. This might also be helpful: https://www.ndspro.com/images/stories/pdfs/drainage/principles-of-exterior-drainage.pdf > However, that may have taken 2nd place as they, about a year ago, > bought > a whole, roughly 8 acre, un-incorporated town in central Kansas. A > foreclosed Fanny Mae property, a 3 bedroom house with attached 2 > bedroom > apartment, a 4 stall and workspace heated garage, and several other > smaller houses and outbuildings including what was once the post > office, > and got it for the price of enough paint to paint it all twice! Your > tax > dollars, hardly at work. I've seen a number of places like this come up. I would not blame that on our tax dollars, but you might be right. EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
