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Kevin G. Kevin G. is offline
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Default Crack in Basement Floor Seeping Water

On Apr 4, 3:00 pm, "BETA-33" wrote:
I think you will find that the crack is from water pressure under the
concrete that is due to a high water table (or possibly, from not a good
enough runoff of water away from the house on the outside).

The solution will probably be a sump pump which will operate as the water
table rises. If you do an Internet search on sump pumps, you'll probably
find some explanations of this.

"Kevin G." wrote in message

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On Apr 3, 3:59 pm, zzyzzx wrote:
Pictures always help, but I'm more inclined to think that maybe the
water table is rising in that area after a heavy rain, etc.
Of course, maybe you live in Arizona, or something and you already
know for a fact that's not the case.


I live in Northwest Ohio. I have posted some pictures he


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Thanks, everyone, for your replies. I have found that most of the
water is actually not leaking from this crack in my basement floor,
but from where the floor and the wall meet close to that area. The
larger crack that I've talked about in previous posts is also leaking
water, but is doing so at a slow pace.

Also nearer to where most of the water is coming through, there also
appears to be some hairline cracks that are allowing water to come
through. There is one other location where water appears to be coming
in from where the floor and wall meet, and there are several other
locations where water is coming up through small, hairline cracks in
the floor.

With regards to the big crack that I've talked about in previous
posts, within the next couple of days, I'm planning on patching up
this crack. It looks like the previous homeowner(s) already tried to
patch the crack, but they did not create any dovetail grooves in the
crack. Any idea how far apart to space these grooves along the length
of the crack?

Also, I do have a sump pump already in place, and it kicks on every
2-3 minutes. Not sure why this is not removing most or all of the
water from around/beneath my foundation.

Thanks for any and all replies.

Kevin