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Posted by on July 12, 2005, 12:08 pm
We did look carefully at the basement before we closed - we walked away
from a house closing a few weeks earlier due to concerns over extensive
cracking in the basement (and that house was only 11 months old!).
There was no apparent problem at the time of closing.
But then it started raining, seemingly every day now for several weeks
straight. While it could just be due to excessive rain, none the less
we feel there shouldn't be water coming in no matter the amount of
rain, at least not if they did the job right. Since the subdivision is
still under construction, we've walked through other basement homes and
haven't seen anything like this, even in the houses literally right
next door to ours.
If the houses on either side of us don't have this problem, it seems to
me like the problem is with the construction itself. I could be wrong,
but that's my first impulse.
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Posted by on July 13, 2005, 12:35 am
> After the last one had me going, I can't wait to see how this one
> transpires..
> Searcher
>
The last one In retrospect dumping the salt OUT OF the bags into wheel
barrow ( clean) spreading around the pool with shovel might of been a better
idea, to bad I didn't think of that.
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Posted by on July 13, 2005, 10:01 am
It's a daylight basement, however, exposed in the back of the house, so
I would expect if there was a rising water table the backyard would
also be flooded? Only it isn't. In fact, the back yard seems to drain
pretty well.
*blink*
I better check that it isn't draining back into the basement...
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Posted by on July 14, 2005, 10:27 am
>> It's a daylight basement, however, exposed in the back of the house, so
>> I would expect if there was a rising water table the backyard would
>> also be flooded? Only it isn't. In fact, the back yard seems to drain
>> pretty well.
Not necessarily, surface water can dissipate pretty quickly if there is
no blockage or pooling on the grade. Water that soaks into the ground
from the surface has travel through, obviously, the ground: clay, soil,
rock, etc. Clay is especially bad because it takes a long time to
saturate and then a long time to dry out. Now consider the crushed
stone underneath your basement slab. Water can travel through that
pretty easily and most likely collects there if it cannot get out fast
enough through the surrounding soil conditions. It's not intentional
but the stone located below subterranean basement slabs acts like a
drywell in wet locations. Therefore a sump pump is required to keep
the water level below the slab.
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