Water in basement help!!

[vineyardblues]

Thanks for all the advice guys,
And yes it's a very high water table, the rest of the homes were build on slab's.
VB

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by vineyardblues

Thanks for all the advice guys,
And yes it's a very high water table, the rest of the homes were build on slab's.
VB

Sounds familiar. The house I bought during my first marraige had the same problem. I realized after we moved in that we had the only house on the block with a basement and found out why very shortly thereafter

The only permanent fix was a sump pump and a French drain.

This time of the year is especially bad. I stayed there over the weekend while visitng my kids and the pump kicks in like clockwork every 5-7 minutes.

You also want an auxiliary battery powered pump.

[spence]

The entire slope on the Tiverton side of the Sakonnet river bridge has a very high water table, and in many places open springs that flood basements and roads. It makes for some wicked ice in the winter.

Our cottage is built on a very steep slope, with a stone rubble foundation (original) and dirt cellar at a higher grade (around 12") than our finished basement (addition).

Needless to say, this configuration sucks big time. We have a sump in the cellar, but during very heavy rain, or worse when we had that slush followed by rain the system gets overloaded...and the water has nowhere to go but into the finished side.

I need to dig a drain system throughout the entire cellar, but what PITA

-spence

[Raven]

Originally Posted by vineyardblues

Thanks for all the advice guys,
And yes it's a very high water table, the rest of the homes were build on slab's.
VB

forgot to mention...sometimes you can cut off a piece of romex cable
for running 110 circuits ....and remove all the inner wiring so you have just the flat white shell left over...
you can slide that on the end of your gray goop caulking nipple and then you'll have a flat insertion tool
if that'll get the caulking in deeper in the crack.

[daceman63]

Crack-X

I think it is $595.00 per crack (floor to ceiling) and they guarantee it for 10 years. I had it done to my last house in 2005 and then we got all that heavy rain and not one drop of water came through. To watch them you could probably do it yourself but it would cost you a couple of hundred in materials I would think.....

The waranty is transferrable.....

www.crackx.com

[Chris in Mass]

Originally Posted by daceman63

Crack-X

I think it is $595.00 per crack (floor to ceiling) and they guarantee it for 10 years. I had it done to my last house in 2005 and then we got all that heavy rain and not one drop of water came through. To watch them you could probably do it yourself but it would cost you a couple of hundred in materials I would think.....

The waranty is transferrable.....

www.crackx.com

I second CrackX. Had a floor to cieling crack and water leaking throuh where the septic pipe leaves the house. They fixed them both and never looked back.

[Fishpart]

My belief is to siphon the water off the outside of the house. Looking at the puddle, you could do yourself a lot of good if you could dig a shallow ditch and get rid of the water. Don't underestimate how much scratching a trench with a garden hoe will dry your cellar..


I am tempted to dig down to the footing on the low side of my house and run some drain pipes to carry the water away. Year round there is standing water in my sump pit that is just below the slab. Since I did my first repair, the sup pump hasn't run once (12 years) so there isn't really a rush to get it done...

[Raven]

build a swale.... its a sloping trench that funnels the water away

[vineyardblues]

Originally Posted by Raven

build a swale.... its a sloping trench that funnels the water away

Hey Raven,,,,, How wide should that swale be? lol
VB