On 7/25/2011 3:07 PM, Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:29:03 -0700 (PDT), bob
wrote:
have you considered a interior french drain with sump pump?
Nah.
I've got a sump with 2 half hp sump pumps, plus a lift system with a
1/2 hp pump.
This one.
http://www.tramcopump.com/Residentia....cfm?ProdID=26
The water nearly got to that motor.
I've got to get a new circuit there as all 3 running will trip the
breaker. Might beef up the sump with higher capacity pumps then.
And hope the power doesn't go out.
The poured foundation and floor are all dry even during heavy rains,
but this was a deluge.
The only thing that would keep the water from coming in during these
huge and highly unusual storms would be maybe a 10 hp pump.
Hell, 7 inches of rain in a few hours!
There was so much ground water pressure I actually had a geyser
squirting from a crack in the floor that I can't even find now.
My attitude is just prevent whatever damage I can when this ****
happens. I never look at a basement around these parts as something
you can keep water from getting in during odd events, so I just try to
protect what I can when this happens.
Might not ever happen again in my lifetime
--Vic
Is this the Vic Smith that used to work for Lucent/Bell Labs/Western
Electric/old AT&T? I know about those gully washers in the area. When
I lived in Bolingbrook we had 23" of rain in 36 hours, in, I think it
was 1985 or there about. And that was actually measured by a nearby
friend. Much of it came at the end of the period in the wee hours of
the morning. Funny thing was, the north side and the city had very
little rain, comparatively. My pump barely kept up, but it did. The
big problem by me was sewer backup. I had the floor drain plugged and a
check valve on the basement sink drain. As the backup comes on slowly,
the check valve really didn't work, so the sink filled almost to the
top. Once I siphoned the water out of the sink, into the sump pit,
there was enough pressure difference to keep the check valve's gate
tightly shut ... end of problem. After complaining the Village
official, they had a whole house anti-backup system installed not at my
expense.