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Need temporary solution to flooding problem.
Hello,
I need a quick temporary solution to help my parents with a flooding problem. They are both disabled and basically depend on others when things go wrong and right now they are. Houses in the area are all built on a hill. Our house is about halfway on the hill. Flooding has never been a real problem until the last couple of years. Now it doesnt really have rain that hard for it to flood. Water comes down the hill right to their backdoor and comes right in. They have had several landscapers attempt to fix the problem and if anything they made things much worse (like making concrete paths on the hill that only makes it easier for the water to come down even faster). My dad has also had 3 sump pumps installed but they just dont have the flow rated needed. They had a concrete step put in front of the door so the water has to rise to about 1 inch or so before it floods I put up a small damm a few feet from the door and that improved things but still not good enough for heavy downfall like we had last night. Wet dry vac just was a waste of time it was coming in so fast. Within a couple of minutes the whole house had flooded with the one exception being the bathroom. Out of desperation I grabbed some plywood and put it in front of the door. At first it did not work because the concrete is porous and leaked like crazy. The concrete step has a pvc pipe embeded for added strenght and placing the plywood on this surface and then sitting on the board for 30 min for the rain to die down worked pretty good. Water came up about 2 inches on the board (probably 3 + inches total because the wood was on top of the step as well. Anyway they have some help coming but they are backed up and I want to use this board as a shield into this other company does thier thing. I am wonderig if there is some sort of rubber seal I could glue on the pvc and then up along the door frame to get a water tight seal. Doesnt need to be pernament but just good enough to work for a few weeks till they get something better (a drainage ditch from what I understand). Any ideas if some sort of rubber seal is availble or any suggestions? Thanks, Fletch |
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