On Friday 25 December 2015 18:06:27 Jon Elson wrote: > On 12/25/2015 03:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > No white Christmas here, steady rain, long enough my > > basement floor is getting wet. Darnit! I need to deepen > > the sump pump pit another 6 feet I guess. Or get a hoe in > > here with a 15 foot arm and put in a french drain that deep. > > The glue job I did on the two cracks in our basement is > still holding, and we've had enough rain on a couple > occasions that we would have had major puddles before the > fix. So, that is really good news! I've got stuff piled > all over the place, often in cardboard boxes, so flooded > floors really made a mess. > I've been gradually, as I can catch stuff dry, transfering it to plastic tub containers. Still need another dozen or so to get it all protected.
Dee must have 10 grand in copyrighted sheet music from her teaching days in cardboard boxes yet. Not to mention old family pix and such that go back 100+ years. And a few hundred lbs of old records, some even hill & dale recordings for a windup Victrola that hasn't had a windup key ever on my watch for the last 26 years. The rocker/crib she was a baby in, 75+ yo now just like her. Heck, my reloading bench dates from about 1960-61 when Annie & I moved to the Black Hill's & we had deer standing around waiting for a dinner invite from a 30-06. We ate well even when the cash was thin. ;-) > Our last house had a foundation that leaked literally like a > sieve, there were thousands of leaks, no hope of ever fixing it. > Thats this one, the only way to fix it is bring in a crane, disconnect it, and set it down all cockeyed nearly blocking the street, demolish this basement, dig and pour a new one all in one piece, no damned blocks, with lots of wire mesh re-enforcement, & set the house back on it, raising the house about a foot in the process because the basement ceiling is a good foot too low. As if thats going to happen on whats left of my watch... It might be the last thing I start, and we don't have THAT kind of money by a factor of at least 2. > Jon Looking at your place, it does look like a comfortable place, level ground even. That sort of dirt starts at 100k an acre here in WV, with nothing on it but a few scraggly trees. Or you spend it in diesel fuel making it flat... Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year everybody. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
