is it possible that your cellar floor might have been poured that way incase of incoming water which will run to one side or one corner? this current basement/ cellar floor is angled such and I did not know that until we had ur first flood and a new pump ran for a couple of days until we finally heard the water rushing into the sump pump hole. Lee
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:09:16AM -0400, Dan Rossi wrote: > I need to call in NASA to investigate my basement. Apparently, my > basement is a very special place where Euclidian geometry goes right out > the window. > > I have two parallel beams that are nice and level. The level beeps > continuously as I move it along the beams. I lay a 2X4 across the two > beams and that 2X4 shows level. So, if the two beams are level, and they > are level to each other, then a 2X4 placed across them at any point will > be level. > > Here is where it gets interesting. At one end, the 2X4 is level and all > is happy. At the far end, if I level the 2X4 it is well above the one > beam. And I don't mean like a quarter of an inch, I mean like an inch and > a quarter or a bit more. > > This is actually impossible. But that is why my basement must be > declared a non-euclidian zone. > > I think it has to do with the fact that even if the level is off a tiny > bit, like 0.1 of a degree, over 15 feet, that is actually 5/16 of an inch. > Do that three times and you get nearly an inch. Plus the middle beam that > I was trying to level wasn't fully supported yet, so is bending and > flexing, and so was the 2X4 I was using. Add all that up and you get a > lot of error creep. > > I need an 8 foot level, but not sure I can get that one passed SWMBO. I > might try using my saw guide on edge which should be pretty stiff. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [email protected] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 -- "It's a summons." "What's a summons?" "It means summon's in trouble." -- Rocky and Bullwinkle .
