Hi Jeff, Here we don't usually run drainage tile under the basement floor but we lay weeping tile around the perimeter of the footing usually at time of construction. It is bedded in crushed rock, these days it is usually vinyl with perforations and we usually have it "in a sock" which is to say in a sleeve of fabric. In some places this can be fed directly into a storm sewer system, others require a sump. Sometimes the weeping tile fails or more usually fills with very fine silt and requires replacement. I did that when I rebuilt this old house several years ago, replacing clay tiles and including the addition. I also scrubbed off the cement walls and stuck two layers of extruded Styrofoam insulation to the exterior walls to both insulate and help waterproof the walls. You slope the tile to the lowest point, in your case the sump and in your case probably to a point just below the bottom of the footing so you can punch a hole just big enough to carry a pipe under the footing into the sump.
If sewers are low enough you might like to penetrate that and drain it directly there but it may be illegal and you run the risk of back-up. In my case this is a problem so I installed a one way trap and so far, over 16 years there hasn't been a problem. Your municipality may have a storm sewer for the purpose but as you already have a sump pump which pushes water somewhere you may be happy to leave it like that. If you can keep the periphery dry then water won't get under the floor and it too should stay dry so long as the tile is operating. I had a chap with a back hoe excavate and it took him maybe a day then another day to fine tune the grade. I laid in quite a lot of crushed rock and then sand to near grade. Then try to arrange your land scape to also direct water away from the building. I hope this gives you a few ideas. The point is to try to keep the water from getting to that area under the floor by diverting surface water and collecting water around the footing.The water will take the easiest route which you are contriving to be the weeping tile and sump. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Kisecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Handiman Blind" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 5:42 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] water in basement > Hey list: > > We have received three inches of rain over the past three days, and more > to > come. I have a sump pump, but the dumb ass who put it in when I had my > house built was really stupid and didn't put any drain tile underneath the > concrete floor. Short of cutting up my floor to put some drain tile in, > is > there any way I can stop the water from seeping up through the floor? > > Thanks for any responses, I have vacuumed about 100 gallons of water over > the past two days. > > Thanks again, Jeff > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
