Home alone with baby and the basement is flooding.

[daisybuchannan]

Close the door and crack open a beer?

FML. 

I filled the shop vac 3 times with water and nearly threw out my back while lifting the barrel to the basement sink. This furthers my belief that we will go freaking poor fixing this old house with "character" before moving. 

Ahhh

[cleo29]

Time for a sump pump.

[Deleted]

Yeah. Close the door and have a beer.

Sorry

[julez]

Oh no.

Shut the door and crack a bottle of wine. Or vodka.

[daisybuchannan]

Jun 7, 2013 11:08:18 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

Time for a sump pump.

We have one! 

A freaking new one!

WHY ISN"T IT TURNING ON!!!!!!??

[daisybuchannan]

Jun 7, 2013 11:08:40 GMT -5 Loco Coco said:

Oh no! That sucks! Where is it coming from? If you shut off water to the house will it stop? I know we have a water shut off on the street in the front of our house.

It's like monsoon rains right now, or else I would turn it off, lol. 

[Deleted]

We had to spend $10k to fix our flooding basement with drains and some type of water proofing on the walls. The sump pump wasn't enough.

[cuddlyevil]

Call the company that installed it and have them get someone out there ASAFP.

[daisybuchannan]

Jun 7, 2013 11:20:27 GMT -5 @godawgs said:

We had to spend $10k to fix our flooding basement with drains and some type of water proofing on the walls. The sump pump wasn't enough.

This is what we're trying to avoid. 

It's going really well for us, clearly.

[Deleted]

Jun 7, 2013 11:32:01 GMT -5 daisybuchannan said:

Jun 7, 2013 11:20:27 GMT -5 @godawgs said:

We had to spend $10k to fix our flooding basement with drains and some type of water proofing on the walls. The sump pump wasn't enough.

This is what we're trying to avoid. 

It's going really well for us, clearly.

Yeah, it sucked big time.  Right after we did this, our air conditioning went out and we had to buy a whole new unit.  Being a grown up can really suck! 

[cleo29]

Jun 7, 2013 11:19:23 GMT -5 daisybuchannan said:

Jun 7, 2013 11:08:18 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

Time for a sump pump.

We have one! 

A freaking new one!

WHY ISN"T IT TURNING ON!!!!!!??

You need to call them back and figure out what is going on. With a sump pump, this should not be happening.

where was the water coming in? we had a sump put in, but then needed to do an outside drainage system and they sealed the area where our water was coming in with this tar like substance that seals but can flex with the settling of a house.

[daisybuchannan]

My H is on his way home to help figure this shit out.

GoDawgs- being an adult sucks in soooo many ways.

[cleo29]

Jun 7, 2013 11:39:37 GMT -5 daisybuchannan said:

My H is on his way home to help figure this shit out.

GoDawgs- being an adult sucks in soooo many ways.

Water problem are awful. I bet something like a French drain outside will help and then sealing the walls.

[jaylea]

This is just what happens up here in the land of high water tables. Most people have wet basements. Our sump died last summer and we ended up with an inch or so on one side of the basement. How deep is the water? Did the sump stop because it's too high or is it just that the sump fried? They don't last all that long.

[daisybuchannan]

So, he came home and apparently the outlet the sump pump was plugged into just wasn't working.

Pump is back on, he got most of the water up with the shop vac, and we're on top of it now. Ugh.

[cleo29]

Jun 7, 2013 12:40:57 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Jun 7, 2013 11:37:25 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

You need to call them back and figure out what is going on. With a sump pump, this should not be happening.

where was the water coming in? we had a sump put in, but then needed to do an outside drainage system and they sealed the area where our water was coming in with this tar like substance that seals but can flex with the settling of a house.

Sump pumps have an auto shut-off for when water gets above a certain height (volume? Not sure how to best describe) because its too much for them to function safely.

So when it's down pouring like today, sometimes it's just too much water.

She made it sound like it had not even turned on. I know how they work, as we had one at our old house, but if her pump is not even turning on, there could be other issues.

[MixedBerryJam]

Jun 7, 2013 12:40:57 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Jun 7, 2013 11:37:25 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

You need to call them back and figure out what is going on. With a sump pump, this should not be happening.

where was the water coming in? we had a sump put in, but then needed to do an outside drainage system and they sealed the area where our water was coming in with this tar like substance that seals but can flex with the settling of a house.

Sump pumps have an auto shut-off for when water gets above a certain height (volume? Not sure how to best describe) because its too much for them to function safely.

So when it's down pouring like today, sometimes it's just too much water.

I never knew this, and actually I haven't needed my sump since I had it installed in 2010, but I do know that it's really easy for the float to get jammed and not signal the pump to start. Is it safe for you to check that? If not, I'd suggest cracking open TWO beers so that your backup is ready! Good luck!

[snickers]

Oh shit,
That really sucks.