Water in basement help!!

[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

[Fishpart]

Originally Posted by vineyardblues

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

Couple feet wide, 6" below the grade level at the lowest point. The trick is to blend it in so it doesn't look like a trench but carrys the water off. Looks low in the back right corner of the photo, chances are if you could get the water flowing downhill under the stone wall you'd be home free......

I looks worse than it is, because the swale starts working whne the first drop of water falls, now you see an accumulation......

[Skitterpop]

Originally Posted by vineyardblues

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

Peter.... if you need temporary storage for all your goodies let me know.... I would have to blindfold you though

[MAC]

Originally Posted by vineyardblues

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

Better get some giant powder to get rid of that stone dam.