Dale, I am tired just reading about your progress. Makes my basement door thing seem pathetically small in comparison.
I dug a hole in the bottom of the pit on Sunday. I sunk a large plastic sump into the hole. I dumped a bunch of gravel at the bottom of this secondary hole, punched a bunch of holes in the bottom of the plastic sump and placed the sump into the hole and dumped a bit more gravel into the sump to weight it down a bit and keep it from shifting too much. There is a lid on the sump and there will be a drain passing through the cement slab and draining into the sump. There will also be some of that 4 inch perforated pipe running around the outside of the pit and dumping into the sump. This will hopefully keep the pit reasonably dry except in the case of continuous rain for several days. Now I just have to haul all the cement up the stairs and I can pour the slab. Then I'll just have to haul all the cement blocks up the stairs and build the walls of the pit. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081
