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Hello Kntoran! Better late than never! I just wanted to wish you a hearty congrats to you being selected as member of the month. You always manage to make me smile whenever I am reading your posts. Keep up the good work! Hey, one day, I may even over take you in posting! Yeah, yeah, stop laughing! A girl can dream can't she?

Edited: Geenie on 4th Feb, 2009 - 3:09am

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Oh man I fell out of my chair with that post Geenie. I am glad that you can make a person laugh. I have to thank you for that and say thank you for the well wishes. I just hope you do not fall off the top posters list.

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Well I had a nice surprise waiting for me when I got home early this morning. I found that I had all kinds of water rushing into my basement. It was a nice ice cold water that was almost two feet deep. I checked my sump pump and it was running as hard as it could but there was too much water coming in for it to keep up with.

At first I thought it was a water main rupture. I had the city come out and turn the water off to my house. This did not slow the water at all. The water guy, my dad, and my neighbor all did not smell any waste so it was not the sewer line that had ruptured.

We all came to the conclusion that it is the ground water table. Somehow it found a way into my house and now I am stuck with getting it out of my basement. I had a second sump pump that I had on a shelf. I attached a garden hose to it and set it in the water. With the two sump pumps going I was finally making the water leave quicker than it was coming in. It is nearly six hours later and I still have a good foot to 14 inches of water in my basement. It is still pouring in but the sump pumps will get it down to nothing soon I hope. I do not have any hot water since the gas water heater is under water. I am hoping that by the time I head to work today that I am able to restart the water heater.

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That sounds like lots of fun, especially since it is cold in your parts. I hope you did not have anything of significant value in your basement.

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I have items of value in my basement but they are up on concrete ledges that are three and a half feet up. My Main furnace is in the basement but the heating element (burner) is three feet off the floor. The only thing it really effected is the water heater which has a heating element just six inches off the floor. I am just glad I caught it before it got too much deeper. I just love walking around in the ice cold water checking on the pumps as it is.

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Smart of you to put all the stuff on blocks. I have never been fond of basements for this same reason, flooding. I can see a basement if your House is of itself above ground, but even so there must be some way of handling in house flooding.

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Having your basement floor slope to a low spot and putting in a below grade hole to place a sump pump is the best thing for a basement. I do not like basement drains as they can get plugged or back up. Having a sump pump to pump the water up and out of the house is the way to go. For the five + years I have lived there I have had no problem with just one sump pump. I have the feeling that if this continues I will have to rethink my sump pump placement.

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You need to find that source! Though it can seep directly though the concrete when the ground is saturated enough and you sure had your fair of water this year. have you considered digging around the house and putting in a weeping tile system and sealing up the concrete?

I just fear for long term mold issues. DO you spay for that in the basement? If not you might want to.