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Nice thing is the whole time I've lived in my house >4 years. My sump has never filled with water. I've had 3 1/2 feet of snow melt here in 4 days and then get 2 1/2 inches of rain in those four days. There was flooding everywhere. My crock for the sump, still dry. Basement , still dry. I love sandy soil and living on top of a hill.
 
When I built the new garage last year the basement started flooding shortly after and I could not figure out why...well a few weeks back I was digging up a hydrant and came across the drain for the basement....it was going a completly different direction then we had originally thought and what had happened was the dozers crushed the drain when they were filling/leveling the site. I have since had the Amish come out and cut a new drain into the basement floor and I am awaiting a track hoe to show up to dig the drain tile from the house to the outlet in the field. Not exactly the way I wanted to spend $3000.

Cheese "sumping till the drain is fixed" Man
 
Jeepm@n said:
I love sandy soil and living on top of a hill.
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This, for sure. Okay, I don't live on top of a hill, but my house is the highest elevation in the neighborhood. 6+ inches of rain in under 24 hours, and no water in the basement at all.
 
With out a basement, i don't have to worry about water in it :D
 
the idiots that poured our concrete patio did not pitch it away from the house, so when it rains it has a tendency to puddle water against the foundation and eventually it all comes down the inside of the basement wall and into the floor. Our basement is a utility room basement that houses the A/C unit and has shelves for storage, but it is worthless for anything other then that...or being a storm shelter. We have installed an electronic air cleaner in our HVAC to help with any musty smells coming from the unit being in the basement..and we use a shit load of bleach and disinfectant to keep mold/mildew from getting started down there.

Cheese "will be glad to have this project tied up with" Man
 
I'd be breaking up that patio and repouring it. If it's not poured up to the foundation, you might be able to mud-jack it a bit.

Wait..... did you contract to have it poured, or was it done by a previous owner?
 
The PO had it done...if I paid to have it done I would have their sorry ass out there redoing it! I thought about haviong it mudjacked, but I was told that since it is agains that old block foundation that the foundation may shift due to the hydraulic force.
 
cabjeepster said:
Does this help?
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Thanks Craig, I saw that yesterday and yes it did help. I was trying to find pictures on my phone but that wasn't going too well. Got the shackles popped back into the right position and hauled 3 more vehicles out. Still have two more to go though...

New house has a manual transfer switch, and the PO offered to leave his 7kW generator for $300... starts and runs fine so I figured what the hell. No sump pump to worry about but it will at least keep the lights on.
 
A 7kW genset for $300, already wired in? Score.

Tyler, that's what I figured. Rip it out and start over.
 
Rev Den said:
I'll go you one farther.....get an automatic transfer switch and matching genset....2 mins, and I don't even need to be there.

Rev
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Just add a natural gas generator to that and that's the dream set up.

$300 for a 7k generator is a good buy.

Tho I wasn't posting about my dreams, I was posting what I had...which is a transfer switch and a 6500 watt generator. My dad and I wired a plug on the outside of the house to the transfer switch and made a jumper to go from the plug to the generator.

mac 'its as easy as abc, 123...' gyvr
 
Check the chapter staging area for Bachelor party weekend at the Badlands.

mac 'if you can't get married there, having the bachelor party there is a good second' gyvr
 
macgyvr said:
Just add a natural gas generator to that and that's the dream set up.

$300 for a 7k generator is a good buy.

Tho I wasn't posting about my dreams, I was posting what I had...which is a transfer switch and a 6500 watt generator. My dad and I wired a plug on the outside of the house to the transfer switch and made a jumper to go from the plug to the generator.

mac 'its as easy as abc, 123...' gyvr
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There's a major concern with a manual transfer switch. Make damned sure that it's thrown BEFORE you connect the genset. The last thing that you want to do is to shoot juice down the line and zap a line worker.
 
My switch is one that there is no way to juice the line the other way.

mac 'hot' gyvr
 
also every time i have someone over to my house, they say they smell natural gas
:shocked:..:smoker:..:fuse:..:explosion..:flame:...........................:angel:
 
Rev Den said:
Whole house unit with natural gas and auto switch was the best money I ever spent. It will run everything, but the AC.


Rev "Got yard lights on in a power outage" Den
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my hvac guy told me not to run the a/c or the washer off the generator...

mac 'two things i might need the most in a power outage :) 'gyvr
 
XJ&CHZ4ME said:
The PO had it done...if I paid to have it done I would have their sorry ass out there redoing it! I thought about haviong it mudjacked, but I was told that since it is agains that old block foundation that the foundation may shift due to the hydraulic force.
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Yes, you could blow a hole in the block if they pump the grout too fast. and contractors NEVER try and hurry a job through...
 
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