On Wed, Jan 18, 2017, at 12:25 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > > Paul Stenquist wrote: > > I expected to see a masculine-leaning lady hiding in your closet. > > That would have been a much better flavor of interesting than having > water bubble up through the floor. I managed to seal the crack between > the floor and the retaining wall, and then water started coming in under > the sill plate for the short section of wall to the right of the frame. > By drilling the hole where I did, and making that dyke, I was at least > able to confine the product of my little spring to a place a bit easier > to clean up. > > Most of my time the next few days were spent cutting a one foot square > hole in some concrete outside the downstairs, and digging a five foot > deep hole with my PHD so that I could put a sump pump at the bottom. > With luck, when the next heavy rains come tomorrow, the water will go > into the new sump to be pumped into the garden, rather than creating a > lazy little stream across the downstairs living room floor. > > Like I said, things have been interesting lately.
Rain? You have rain in California? Who knew? Send some our way if there's any to spare. Cheers Brian > > > > > Paul via phone > > > >> On Jan 17, 2017, at 8:04 PM, Larry Colen<[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Here's a photo of a closeted dyke that's been at my house for almost a > >> week: > >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/31533480844 > >> > >> -- > >> Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
