On Saturday 26 December 2015 03:50:00 EBo wrote: > On Dec 25 2015 7:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > 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. > > Still not ideal, but have you thought of digging out around the stem > wall and pouring an external wrap around it? That does not fix the 1' > to low basement, but at least it fixes the intrusion problem. > > EBo --
"stem wall"? Not a term I am familiar with, sorry. The front wall in particular, has the roots of a row of burning bush we planted too close pushing it inward, and that has caused a slight inward bulge halfway up the wall, crack width less than 1/16", but no water appears to be coming it from that. Its all around the base of the wall, up to 3, maybe 4" above the poured floor. In any event, if we can keep the water pumped out, it will outlast us, at which point my kids can do whatever with it. Dee never had any of her own. Its paid for & has been for nearly 20 years now. One of the boys, recently remarried to a great woman, has been looking for a place in WV, and has even explored the possibility of getting a transfer to here as his employer has a terminal here in WV too. However, that may have taken 2nd place as they, about a year ago, bought a whole, roughly 8 acre, un-incorporated town in central Kansas. A foreclosed Fanny Mae property, a 3 bedroom house with attached 2 bedroom apartment, a 4 stall and workspace heated garage, and several other smaller houses and outbuildings including what was once the post office, and got it for the price of enough paint to paint it all twice! Your tax dollars, hardly at work. 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
