On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 08:28:20 PM Jon Elson did opine: > gene heskett wrote: > > This house, with a full basement, has I believe shifted upwards, > > floating if you will, at least 2" in the 22 years I've been here. > > Well, I guess we have been real lucky here. The shop is in my basement, > totally uninsulated > except by earth berm. I put exterior foam with stucco on the exposed > concrete a few years > ago, makes the shop a lot more comfortable to work in. Strangely, it > seems to have done > nothing for the heating bills. (Although we have never had another $400 > bill, so maybe > it really IS helping.) > > There's one water leak where one of those wires that holds the concrete > forms through > the concrete has rusted out, one of these days I will drill a hole and > pack it with JB Weld. > It only leaks once a year or so after a big deluge. > > Jon
I have a similar problem in my basement, Jon. Seems whomever installed the divider walls, put them into the paper thin poured floor with a Remington nailer. But the nails have long since rusted away, so when it rains a real gully washer, we flood via the miniature geysers spitting up from the nail holes. I haven't run into an injector that could drive the holes full of hydraulic cement yet, and of course now after 35 years, the blocks in the wall are slowly being dissolved away at floor level & up about 4 feet. Since the only cure for that is to call for a hoe, replace as needed & recoat with tar, and backfill again, (bring lots of cash) I believe I'll leave that to whomever the kids sell it to when I'm done with it... In the meantime there are a pair of 72 quart rated dehumidifiers that seem to have actually dried out the dirt a bit as its taking a bigger gully washer to flood us than it used to. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. -- Woody Allen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
