Well, all hell broke loose again today with our little water problem that we had on Tuesday of this week. I got up early this morning to go into work (in the nice ice storm that we had) because I was all but told that I had to be there regardless of the weather. Went in to work and had the meeting that was scheduled and my phone rang in the middle of it. After Karen called back within a minute, I answered it only to find out that she was not going into work because we had a flood in our basement. Again! This time though it was both of the window wells that were filled with water and it was pooring in the basement from both sides. Her parents came up and brought a wet/dry vac as well as a pump that Larry uses to drain the pool.
I ended up leaving work to come home and see what I could do to keep the water from completely flooding our basement. The pump worked really well, except for the fact that there was only a 10' hose on it so we coudn't get the water far enough away from the house, so it just ran right back into the window well. So after fighting with our frozen hose that's been in the garage since the fall, I ended up running to K-Mart to buy a hose so what we could get the water directed away from the house.
Well, that didn't work too well either :) Either the hose was too small or something else, but the pump was actually loosing ground with this hooked up. So I ened up removing the new hose and digging out a path way in the snow/ice through our yard that the water could run through. What fun! Right now it is under control, but we'll see what happens this weekend when it warms up and everything starts to melt.
And to think, none of this would have happened if our builder had graded our yard properly in the first place.
Posted by doug at February 6, 2004 05:27 PMTake more pictures!
How much water was in the basement?
Posted by: stacey at February 6, 2004 05:42 PMI have more pictures that I just need to put up online. I'll get around to that eventually. As for how much water we actually had in our basement, we were lucky. It pretty much contained itself to the two corners where the windows are. No damage to anything we have down there, but there was still a lot of water.
Our builder came out to look at it and pretty much laughed us off. We told him that we wanted it fixed and he said there was nothing he could do until spring. Ok, so the ground is frozen, I understand that. But there has to be something he can do. He said he would talk to the owner and call me a half hour later. That was yesterday at about 2:45 PM and it's now Saturday at 3:45 PM. So much for a half hour!
Posted by: doug at February 7, 2004 03:32 PM