I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
We did just that a few months ago but the flexible addition leading 10' away was screwed on but not sealed and I think some water still comes out at the join if the rain is heavy. Doing this has cut down the amount of water seeping in by a long shot so R, who has done this in a house in Edmonton, says he will redirect the downspout over to the fence and then along there to empty where the ground is lower and slopes down to the street.
We can't bury here because of the ground freezing. I had suggested that and R said it brings lots of problems in the spring when the frozen ice in the spout and addition is thawing and blocking the flow. I get that.
It is a very deep basement. The basement windows are below ground level with very deep window wells. Just badly done by the builders. For years we didn't have any problems, but since the forest fire and our encounter with the water bomber, we have had seeping/flooding in heavy rains in that corner only. it definitely shook something up. That's why I have wondered if the weeping tile was disturbed/blocked.
I think it has been worse since the back yard was dug up last year to repair the drains. Hard to say but part of the lawn in that corner sank a couple of inches after the repairs were done though the digging was at the bottom of the garden away from the house. All that soil disturbance didn't help!
We are not actually getting standing water in that area, thankfully. Last year too an additional complication is that the neighbour on that side raised the strip of his land along his house with gravel and concrete blocks right by our fence and that corner of the house so we get his drainage from that. That extra drainage doesn't help either.
It is much improved since we put in that flexible addition so we are hoping that redirecting the downspout 10 ' away from that corner with all joints sealed will do it. Possibly caulking the windows as well. I know that is where it is coming in.
2016, the year this all started, the restorers had pulled off the wet dry wall and there was a heavy rain. I saw it seeping in under the windows. That's why I thought French drains in that area might help. It is only in that corner. The window in the room next door is fine. We've never had a problem there.
My understanding is that French drains or replaced weeping tile can be done from the outside with digging - considerable in our case. We have foundation/ waterproofing people here who can do it from the outside. It would likely be expensive as a backhoe or something like that would be needed.
Anyway thank so much for your information. We can't repair that room until we know it is waterproof and I can't put the house up for sale until then and the repairs have been done. So the next step is the downspout and window caulking and wait for a heavy rain.
Any more wisdom/experience is most welcome.
Will this ever be over so I can get out of here???
bearied or buried?
i'm kidding. golden ❤️, i really hope it all gets fixed soon.
Riverdale, thx for your info. It's a full basement and the leaking is in one bedroom when it rains heavily. It seeps down through the windows though I had new windows installed in 2016. The windows wells are very deep and R suspects that the weeping tile wasn't done well. The floor is concrete and we have laminate over top.
The house is over 40 years old so from my reading I gather that the weeping tile could be plugged by now. The backfill on these houses is honestly garbage and the lawn wasn't sloped away from the house.
In addition after last years sewer pipe fiasco, the lawn right by that corner of the house has sunk so water is flowing towards the house. As well the downspout needs to be directed totally away from there b/c the ground at the corner gets so soggy.
R will redo the downspout and then we will wait for another rain and see if that works. The rest of the basement is fine. If that isn't enough I think we are looking at French drains or weeping tile replacement. I guess the French drain are cheaper?
Superstorm Sandy must have been awful!!!
sorry I don’t know anything about French drains or weeping tile
Does anyone have any experience with replacing weeping tile or installing French drains?
MD - it's always some thing.
First the fires , then the bear, now fraud.
Hopefully that’s it , you’ve hit the trifecta .
In all of this he had contacted the fraud dept. and received a phone call from a guy would claimed to be in the fraud dept. but asked some questions that R found suspicious. R was downtown close to the bank branch so kept this guy talking and walked over and got ahold of the bank manager and signalled her. She checked it out and said it was not their fraud dept.
They think it must be someone within their system who is accessing the account as the money R deposited after the bank making changes and R getting a new card happened so quickly. My other accounts are fine. The "fraud" guy has had the nerve to call R back since and has been told off. The bank are making some changes that they say will work, He will get his money back eventually.
The bank manager said she had only heard of this sort of thing once before.
Pretty nasty stuff.
I have more chin hairs too. I hate it!
I hope you’re successful in getting your mom placed in the same place as your dad.
It’s stressful to deal with all of this.
Hang in there.
I happily left my mother's house last week and am now home (thank God). I learned yesterday that my sister (whose birthday was yesterday and had wonderful plans to celebrate it) had to deal with my mother's freaking hot water heater flooding the basement and having to get a plumber in to replace the damn thing. She had to clean up the mess and get someone in right away to install a new one. I felt terrible for her and felt guilty that she had to deal with it alone.
My sister was said my mother sat in her chair complaining that she was so stressed about this. Never mind how we, her daughters, are just living one crisis to another crisis. Either it is some health thing or some house thing or both. It is always something and it's never good.
Between all this and hoping that my father's Medicaid application for his nursing home is finally reviewed and approved, I am a total basket case.
Thank goodness for alcohol, it's the only thing that takes the edge off.
I don’t get why people wish to own reptiles, especially snakes!
I have always wanted to pet a large cat! I wouldn’t ever try though. I just think that they are absolutely beautiful!
I’m not one of those crazy people like Tiger King. That’s insane! And cruel, honestly. Wild beasts are meant to live in their natural habitat and have humans leave them alone.
I am not fond of zoos. Animals should be free. I am very glad that circuses with animals are not popular anymore. The animals were mistreated, to make the almighty dollar!
They have a trap a number of blocks away and they think the same bear has been causing trouble over there too. I hope they catch it and we will be bear-free. bear-safe, bear-less for a while.
None near the condo further south, where I am moving to, as far as I know! 😊
right, it's bearied not buried: sometimes i make spelling errors, typing fast.
i should have paw-sed and edited.
"Waiting to see if they put out a bear trap."
i hope they won't bear arms.
i hope the problem is solved soon, i don't think it'll last furever.
Md and boj - that's "bearied"
Need - that was scary. You could have become that bear's next meal. The bear Betty White hugged was undoubtedly well trained and very well fed. The ones here are wild and hungry.
Way - That was scary for your friend too. I didn't know that bears responded so well to things they see. They are pretty smart animals. Their drive in life is to feed and for the sows also to look after their young. I will avoid Lake Tahoe. lol Thankfully no bear can see my fridge!
Called the fish cops again and told them I wanted that bear out of here. I pulled the 85 yo and been a resident for 40+ years and never seen one so bold. No one here was heard of a bear coming looking for food by the house in the daytime. I think the dry spring may mean there is less food n the bush for them or this is an old or sick bear that needs easy meals. Dd made the point that she wouldn't want her kids playing outside if there was a bear wandering around and she posted it on her gals group on face book.
Waiting to see if they put out a bear trap.