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Posted by Toller on June 29, 2006, 8:49 pm
>I have lived in my house for 4 years now, however the house is 14 years
> old, and haven't had any flooding problems until this week. There
> has been several inches of rain dropped on our area the past 5 days.
> Well of course our sump pump stopped working. I went into the
> basement one day and found that it was starting to get wet. Within 1
> hour I had 2 inches of water covering the floor. Then we realized the
> sump pump was not working. When we called insurance they sent over an
> engineer who looked around for 10 minutes and left. The next day I
> got a call saying that our water came up from the cement and we
> wouldn't be covered. They then told me that there wouldn't be that
> much water from a sump pump not working. Could this be true??? It
> really came so fast and there are not wet walls to indicate it came in
> from the walls and now that the carpet is up there are no cracks in the
> cement. Can it really come up throught the pores of the cement that
> fast to cause that type of damage?? And does a not working sump pump
> truly cause no damage??? They told me that the sump pump not working
> wouldn't cause that type of damage. HELP!!!
>
The sump pump removes water from beneath the floor. If it is isn't working,
and the water table is higher than the floor, water will pour in from
between the floor and walls. No significant water comes in through the
floor or the walls, just the space between them. Does that make sense?
Insurance normally doesn't cover stuff like that, but read through the
policy to be sure. Then get a battery powered back up for next time.
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