My neighbors has the same problem about 1 1/2 years ago. Their problem was compounded by some one who shouldn't be allow to own a tool of any kind. They built a curb about 6 inches up the vinyl siding, which allowed the water to seep between the siding and the exterior walls. The first thing I did, was to knock this wall of concrete down. Than I took off the siding and put slashing on the walls. Than dug a ditch, laying down drain pipe and gravel, allowing the slashing to drain the water into the drainage ditch. The water problem was solved. I would suggest you install drains around the troubled areas. RJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Mycell Armington To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:03 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Help--my floor is leaking upwards!
Hello All, I joined this list several months ago and have just been lurking and reading and learning. A lot of the things I don't know about personally and I probably will never use, but I thought it would be good just to have a source to go to when needing home repair questions answered. Well, I have a problem and I need your counsel, please read this out and lend me your multitude of counsel. First of all I'll try and explain my subject line. I live in a home that was built in 1962. It was added on to at one end by closing in the car port-/garage. Well that's another problem for another day. My immediate problem is when it rains in massive quantities like for 2 or 3 days and I mean heavy rain 10 inches or more in a 12 to 24 hour time frame the concrete foundation gets wet and this is only in certain areas of the house that water soaks up through ceramic tile. It's happened in the same places 3 times this year and totally saturated my carpets that are on top of the tiling. The room that this phenomenon is occurring in is my bedroom and it's only happening in two corners those corners are on the outside of the house and they are on the same side. The house is made of concrete block and brick and some wood siding. Sorry to belabor the description but the better I describe the better you may be able to help me. I am a single mother of adult children who are scattered over different parts of the world. My son is a United States Marine and is currently preparing to go to Iraq so he can't really do anything. I've asked a few people and they're saying there may be a sealant that can be painted on or poured on. Please help because I'm truly tired of calling for help to move heavy furniture around and pulling up nasty stinky carpet and padding and then running box fans directly through the carpet to get it to dry to prevent it from mildew and mold. I had someone the last time to cut the padding in sections and I ran the padding through the dryer. I didn't think of that one someone else did. Please, please , lend me your wisdom, counsel and advice. It took about 30 hours the last time to finally get things back together. Warm regards and much thanks in advance for any workable solutions. Mycell Armington in Tallahassee Florida. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
