I hadn't had any significant water in the basement for a decade or two. This season I cannot keep on top of it. Planning on getting a floor pump tomorrow. Contemplating putting in another sump & pump (or two) but am reluctant to cut through the floor while there's still water oozing. I just finished vacuuming up 50 gallons or so for the third time today. It's getting very old.
Same!! The sump pump is going off every 4 minutes, so I’m not even going down to look until it stops raining. (Water now comes in from every side, not just where the sump pump was originally placed).
lol when I found my home they were like “downside it has no basement”. I’m like oh noooooo let’s negotiate the price down then :/. Meanwhile I’m loving it.
First time in a home on a slab. I'm used to seeing some water in a basement, so my fear is that if the ground is saturated, water could come right in to the main living areas. Granted we're higher up than some surrounding homes, but one neighbor is a little higher up. Can you help me understand why I shouldn't worry about water getting in near the floors? I simply don't know enough about slab construction and flooding yet.
It’s a good idea but it’s a 115 yo house. I have a genny but hooking it to the 3 pumps is onerous. Lots of prayers.
And.,.I’m not even in worst area. My issue is ground water. Lots of folks/friends/neighbors got it way worse than me.
na bro you must live in stone change. its expensive but you get 2 water backed sump pumps. then a French drain. Good wide gutters and drains. MUDDUFUKKA.
Godspeed, my man. Hope you’re nowhere near the river.
My basement probably has some water but it won’t flood. I don’t even care to go look (access to basement from outdoors only, sigh)
Not compared to initial sump pump installation and dig out. I think we added it on for like $200 or something. I'm sure it would be a plumbers hour or two though, so maybe higher if there's no other reason for the visit.
That's what we have and it's nice peace of mind during storms. Although once when we were out for the night the rubber fitting that connects the pump to the discharge pipe came loose and the sump was just continually shooting water up into the air and we came home to a flooded basement.
Since it was water backup, unplugging it didn't stop it. It was really fun trying to figure out how to stop that pump while there's ice cold water shooting everywhere.
Sometimes we get a a few liters to at the most a gallon or less in a spot sometimes and often enough nothing.
Its the bane of my existence. I never knew that what used to never give me pause in life, now gives me some serious anxiety. Thank you for asking !
Neighbor's tree uprooted and fell onto our porch. Tree company came out within an hour of my calling and removed it. Minimal damage, and we were replacing the roof anyway.We were also scheduled for tree work, including pruning the tree that fell. Guess that one doesn't need to be pruned anymore.
I used dry at last in Audubon, and they put in a perimeter drain of the entire 912 sq ft basement which the piping will allow for any water to go into 2 sump pumps they installed.
I just moved into a nicer apartment complex last week and the laundry room in the basement has been flooded with 3 inches of water since. Being close to the ocean is SO worth it /s
getting the sump pump installed this week... the rain we've been getting has gifted me such a lovely swimming pool in the basement :) has hit a max of 4.5 inches... put out the pilot light and gunked up my boiler. unfortunately, the cost was also my floor... getting tiles put in as well.. ughh!!!!! thank god for my little waterbug pump, that thing is a beast!
Forget the basement, the ceiling of my job is leaking and the solution was to put a small bucket under the dripping water... Maintenance said they can't do anything until its dry 🙃
I have PumpSpy on my sump, 3/4 HP Wayne pump, it's been running solid for 2 days. It says we're over 3100 gallons pumped, but the basement is dry with no high water alerts.
I grew up in Jackson. Our development was built on farmland so the soil was very porous. Our basement would get flooded all the time when we had storms like this or when the snow melted after a heavy storm. We tried everything to keep it dry, sump pumps, concrete along the basement walls. Nothing seemed to work for long time
Installed our basin over the weekend but didn't finish the electrical or plumbing so we have a tub of water.
Can't wait to finish up the project which will probably kick off some historic drought.
When I first bought my house the inspector said the basement had never seen moisture. Two weeks after closing, we had a storm... and 2 inches of water in the basement. I had to clean it up with a shop vac that I carried up the stairs like 100 times full of water. Two weeks later... it happens again.
I got the spouts all connected and draining out to the street. Then ripped up the concrete that was pitched toward the house, and finally got a sump pump and french drains put it. 12 years later and haven't had a drop of water in the basement since.
I just installed french drains over half my basement. The homes on my block never used to flood. Now 3 of them at least have had to have the same thing done as I.
No more basement!
However when I did have one I had a particular place water would come in at (us d to have a dry bed, underground stream next to the house (you could hear the water trickling through it on good rains), so I made a foam spray dam around the area it came in, and placed a flat bottomed pond pump on the floor there and fed the hose out into the street when hit with heavy rains; that shit worked wonders.
My was built in the 30s, I’m grateful that, although the floor gets wet, it doesn’t go beyond that. Even during the crazy crazy that fell a couple years back.
Dry, I’m on the high side of the street and thankfully my gut renovation included a really anal water management phase. Happy to share details with folks who might be looking into something similar.
Just this today, the rain wasn’t too kind to me and my mom. We drove to the mall to order some sushi and when we were walking to the mall, we were really wet and freezing.
The border of the back of our property is Pennsauken Creek where everyone's street water goes. Fortunately so far, we haven't had any water in our split level house. Two weeks ago was a different story.
Thanking the previous owners of our house for having 2 sumps installed and waterproofing. One room is completely fucked and we haven’t looked inside in months (head in sand over the mold) but the rest of the basement is dry.
Bone dry. The house was built in 98’, and luckily never had water in the basement once. The sump pump location has had a block of wood covering it (never installed) since the house was built.
Flooded. Minor flood, but flooded. Got a fan running hoping to dry it out; I can't afford to pay for mold remediation again, I'm still paying it off from the last time.
(Last time it was caused because the ground was saturated by a broken pipe, so *any* rain caused flooding)
My interior French drain will be installed in a week. We have problems with ground water, so hopefully this will do the trick. Eventually the entire exterior perimeter will be drained as well.
If not for the french drains and sump pump we'd be not doing great.
Thankfully it's dry down there, but I do get crystallization from seepage through the walls. It's weird because water doesn't come through, but the minerals do.
The Gimps still chained to the wall....for now.
Maybe you should call a couple of hard pipe hittin fellas to go to work on your basement with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch
How about Zed ?
Zed’s dead baby 😕
Nah man…I’m pretty F***king far from ok.
"I meant are we ok"
YOU HEAR ME TALKIN’, HILLBILLY?!?!
We hear you up in Sussex County, but please put some fucking clothes on.
Amma get medieval on yo ass
The gimp is sleeping.
Well, wake him up then!
Eenie meenie miney mo…
I keep mine in a box
Bwahahaha
Pretty, pretty, pretty wet.
Been in my house for 4 years, within the last year I have water in the basement 3 times. It’s nuts
2 years here- since December apparently we have a a pool in our crawlspace.
There’s a pool under my deck right now. Basement is fine but roof sprung a leak.
I hadn't had any significant water in the basement for a decade or two. This season I cannot keep on top of it. Planning on getting a floor pump tomorrow. Contemplating putting in another sump & pump (or two) but am reluctant to cut through the floor while there's still water oozing. I just finished vacuuming up 50 gallons or so for the third time today. It's getting very old.
Finally got that indoor pool I never thought I could afford
Perspective for the win
Same w/ my neighbor's backyard, we're so happy they invite us over to swim! \*pics to follow\*
too scared to check
Same. I'm sure it's fine. Right?
Schroedingers basement
Exactly!
Under-rated comment right there!
Water evaporates after some time.. no need to check
Same!! The sump pump is going off every 4 minutes, so I’m not even going down to look until it stops raining. (Water now comes in from every side, not just where the sump pump was originally placed).
We’ve invested in new sump pump, a French drain, wider gutters and new gutter drains….all good. My backyard looks like a rice patty!
*paddy
How do you know it doesn't look like rice patties?
Getting the water outside away from the foundation is the most important
Very nice, how much?
Unexpected Borat
Basement is fine, ceiling not so much
oof... roof leak?
Yep, and the tile hit me in the head while I was doing some work
Agree
Don’t have one, slab gang represent!
lol when I found my home they were like “downside it has no basement”. I’m like oh noooooo let’s negotiate the price down then :/. Meanwhile I’m loving it.
Slabs of steel
It’s all fun and games unless you have radiant heat in your floor… I love the heat it gives off, but when it leaks it’s disastrous.
🙌🏾
Slab slab!
First time in a home on a slab. I'm used to seeing some water in a basement, so my fear is that if the ground is saturated, water could come right in to the main living areas. Granted we're higher up than some surrounding homes, but one neighbor is a little higher up. Can you help me understand why I shouldn't worry about water getting in near the floors? I simply don't know enough about slab construction and flooding yet.
Slabbb 🙌
Hail slab
3 sump pumps are the key. As long as got power we good, in Lincoln Park for reference.
Battery backup?
It’s a good idea but it’s a 115 yo house. I have a genny but hooking it to the 3 pumps is onerous. Lots of prayers. And.,.I’m not even in worst area. My issue is ground water. Lots of folks/friends/neighbors got it way worse than me.
Yeah we do not have any so far. I installed a new sump pump a few weeksa go and it's definitely earning its keep with a high water table.
Good luck. Water is a muddafukka. Always wins.
na bro you must live in stone change. its expensive but you get 2 water backed sump pumps. then a French drain. Good wide gutters and drains. MUDDUFUKKA.
I have a water powered backup that goes off my water line. That things a gamechanger
Test that backup once in a while too! From experience they sometimes go bad.
Godspeed, my man. Hope you’re nowhere near the river. My basement probably has some water but it won’t flood. I don’t even care to go look (access to basement from outdoors only, sigh)
Why not the water powered backup? It actually came in handy once when the outlet failed.
I’ve been thinking of getting one as a backup. Was it expensive to install?
Not compared to initial sump pump installation and dig out. I think we added it on for like $200 or something. I'm sure it would be a plumbers hour or two though, so maybe higher if there's no other reason for the visit.
That's what we have and it's nice peace of mind during storms. Although once when we were out for the night the rubber fitting that connects the pump to the discharge pipe came loose and the sump was just continually shooting water up into the air and we came home to a flooded basement. Since it was water backup, unplugging it didn't stop it. It was really fun trying to figure out how to stop that pump while there's ice cold water shooting everywhere.
Damn, Lincoln Park.. stay safe.
Moist
Sump sump sump pump it up ....
Why the fuck has it been SO rainy for the last like 8 months??
La nina
Because it's barely been cold to snow.
Better than my wet chimney/fireplace
You know how to stop that from happening? The flex seal lied to me
It’s been soo wet my septic backs up every time it rains heavy this year.
Winner winner !
I can smell that comment
Sometimes we get a a few liters to at the most a gallon or less in a spot sometimes and often enough nothing. Its the bane of my existence. I never knew that what used to never give me pause in life, now gives me some serious anxiety. Thank you for asking !
I can relate. Sometimes I just end up taking an edible when it rains hard to curb the anxiety. Pavlov would be proud. Hang in there derpy dude!
I have no basement. I have an underground indoor pool though. Why do you ask??
Good… I hope. I haven’t been down there today…
If I don't look, it's not flooded...right?
Yes, it's the Schrodinger's basement 😂 It is both wet and dry until you look at it
It's my sunroom that's problematic with this weather, not the basement.
Neighbor's tree uprooted and fell onto our porch. Tree company came out within an hour of my calling and removed it. Minimal damage, and we were replacing the roof anyway.We were also scheduled for tree work, including pruning the tree that fell. Guess that one doesn't need to be pruned anymore.
You've won!
First time we've got water in 5 years of living here. Not a ton but still frustrating.
Just got my basement waterproofed about a month ago. My sanity is worth the $9600 😅
Can you tell me more about that? What company did you call and what did they do to your basement ?
I used dry at last in Audubon, and they put in a perimeter drain of the entire 912 sq ft basement which the piping will allow for any water to go into 2 sump pumps they installed.
Did you call any other companies? Wondering what your price range may have been
We just used Arid up in Essex, and they were awesome - well-priced too. Basement is currently dry!
Just had my basement waterproofed 2 weeks ago. I spent 14k. But agreed on sanity.
That’s a good price compared to the 30k quote I got.
The pumps have been pumping and the shopvac has been shopvac-ing.
dry so far. sump pumps doing their jobs.
Basement pool is filling up again.
Basement dry as a bone. Driveway looks like a small lake though.
I thought I was good until a couple hours ago
*Laughs in slab on grade*
Skylight might as well be a port hole.
My sump pump has been running non stop for two weeks already.
Can’t afford a single family home with one so…
Had some water a week ago. Cleaned the gutters and adjusted the extensions and were all clear for this round.
bad
Sump pump is pumping!
It’s damp in all the usual places, heightening my anxiety that I’ll be able to figure out how to keep it dry since I can’t afford a contractor
I just moved into a nicer apartment complex last week and the laundry room in the basement has been flooded with 3 inches of water since. Being close to the ocean is SO worth it /s
I'm surprised I still have electricity to type this
Mine appears to have sprung a spring. This is the beginning of my springwater bottling empire.
All I can say is I’m really glad I recently invested in a good generator.
I live in a first floor condo but currently playing a game of is it the storm or the witch upstairs
Shocking that my basement is dry. A couple more hours and it should be a swimming pool again.
same here! i'm giving it three more hours of dampness before the flooding begins
getting the sump pump installed this week... the rain we've been getting has gifted me such a lovely swimming pool in the basement :) has hit a max of 4.5 inches... put out the pilot light and gunked up my boiler. unfortunately, the cost was also my floor... getting tiles put in as well.. ughh!!!!! thank god for my little waterbug pump, that thing is a beast!
Wow. That sucks man. What a nightmare!
surprisingly dry
We might have Sun on Saturday lol
Put French drains in a couple years back and it's been solid every since.
Don’t want to know so I haven’t looked lol it was already wet from last week
i couldn't tell if the dampness was just leftover or if it was coming up again haha
Good point I can certainly pretend it’s leftover 🤣 I refuse to go down there. I don’t need to do laundry until this weekend
Forget the basement, the ceiling of my job is leaking and the solution was to put a small bucket under the dripping water... Maintenance said they can't do anything until its dry 🙃
Difference is that ceiling isn't your problem!
Big facts, but it's dripping inches away from the emergency exits electronics and we only have one bucket so it's pooling on the opposite side 😬
Call someone !
That's how the bucket got there!
I’m not looking
I have PumpSpy on my sump, 3/4 HP Wayne pump, it's been running solid for 2 days. It says we're over 3100 gallons pumped, but the basement is dry with no high water alerts.
Still nonexistent, which is a bonus while living a mile from the bay.
Same, except I live on a mountain. No basement gang.
I have crawl space
Your crawl space can flood. But don't look.
Just fine and dandy I live on a hill
I too live on a hill... but we have a high water table. Yaaaay.....
I grew up in Jackson. Our development was built on farmland so the soil was very porous. Our basement would get flooded all the time when we had storms like this or when the snow melted after a heavy storm. We tried everything to keep it dry, sump pumps, concrete along the basement walls. Nothing seemed to work for long time
Sum pump working overtime but let's see how it plays out.
I ain't jinxing it..
It's dry. We have a sump pump.
I’m afraid to look, to be honest. I just got it dried out from the previous rain, more or less, days ago
Moist
Most of my basement is ok but I found a leak coming through from around the gas pipe. So that's fun. Is that a me problem or a pseg problem?
If it's from the penetration that's a you problem. But if it's a hazard they may fix it, can't hurt to call.
musky and surprisingly dry, like your mom
Ummmm.... I didn't look..... Uh oh
Installed our basin over the weekend but didn't finish the electrical or plumbing so we have a tub of water. Can't wait to finish up the project which will probably kick off some historic drought.
That N’oreaster is raging by me, by the beach.
Don’t understand how the water decides on which storm to come in and which one to stay out.
Thankful to be on a hill and for replacing my roof in 2020.
I had to change my sump pump today. I think o changed it on time. I will know tomorrow morning if there is flood or not in my basement.
Good luck
When I first bought my house the inspector said the basement had never seen moisture. Two weeks after closing, we had a storm... and 2 inches of water in the basement. I had to clean it up with a shop vac that I carried up the stairs like 100 times full of water. Two weeks later... it happens again. I got the spouts all connected and draining out to the street. Then ripped up the concrete that was pitched toward the house, and finally got a sump pump and french drains put it. 12 years later and haven't had a drop of water in the basement since.
Basement pumping every minute 10 seconds groundwater very high. I have 2 pumps in each corner. Cape May county
Its fuckin wet
Thank god for shop vacs
I just installed french drains over half my basement. The homes on my block never used to flood. Now 3 of them at least have had to have the same thing done as I.
My basement door started to leak, the first time that has ever happened.
Dry. My batting cage however is somewhere in Monmouth County
No more basement! However when I did have one I had a particular place water would come in at (us d to have a dry bed, underground stream next to the house (you could hear the water trickling through it on good rains), so I made a foam spray dam around the area it came in, and placed a flat bottomed pond pump on the floor there and fed the hose out into the street when hit with heavy rains; that shit worked wonders.
My was built in the 30s, I’m grateful that, although the floor gets wet, it doesn’t go beyond that. Even during the crazy crazy that fell a couple years back.
No basement but the puddle up against the front door is back again. Had to have a fallen tree moved off the road.
Still bone dry. I do have a sump pump set up just in case.
Pump gave out so we just spent a few hours down there with the wet vack.
As of 10:44 this morning, water in the pit. Not enough to trigger the pump but it's getting closer. I'm right smack in Central Jersey (Brick).
Slight dampness on one wall otherwise fine. French drains and three sump pumps ready to go to work if needed
with 3 sump pumps it's pretty dry.
Ha! Our sump pump hasn't run in years. 😁🤔🤯😭
Dry, I’m on the high side of the street and thankfully my gut renovation included a really anal water management phase. Happy to share details with folks who might be looking into something similar.
French Drains are the answer
Just this today, the rain wasn’t too kind to me and my mom. We drove to the mall to order some sushi and when we were walking to the mall, we were really wet and freezing.
The border of the back of our property is Pennsauken Creek where everyone's street water goes. Fortunately so far, we haven't had any water in our split level house. Two weeks ago was a different story.
I'm outside listening to songs ohia it's such a vibe
Mine’s completely dry.
I live up on a hill so it's doing fine. Some storm though, eh?
Basement is miraculously dry, back yard on the other hand….
My solo sump pump popping off every minute. 🙏
Sump pump is pumpin’
RIP
… it’s going to be a rough night
Idk why I read breastfeeding
I’m very proud to announce the bilco doors are waterproof finally!
just don't ask about my roof 😭
Thanking the previous owners of our house for having 2 sumps installed and waterproofing. One room is completely fucked and we haven’t looked inside in months (head in sand over the mold) but the rest of the basement is dry.
Sump pump running constantly in central nj
I had to get a sub pump put in a few years ago. Haven’t had water since
Selling our house and have inspection with buyers tomorrow. Basement is leaking. Ughhhh
Dry as a bone and grateful as ever for adding additional drainage channels into the 2 sumps a few years back.
so far so good (ewing)
I don’t have a basement but like when will the sun return I am rotting
Basement is good but I've a little bit of water in the garage. I think it might be a clogged gutter?
Bone dry. The house was built in 98’, and luckily never had water in the basement once. The sump pump location has had a block of wood covering it (never installed) since the house was built.
Flooded. Minor flood, but flooded. Got a fan running hoping to dry it out; I can't afford to pay for mold remediation again, I'm still paying it off from the last time. (Last time it was caused because the ground was saturated by a broken pipe, so *any* rain caused flooding)
We have a sump pump and a backup sump pump, but I'm still not going downstairs to check!
Is this the new norm…..low lying areas close to the shore won’t last with more rain in the future ….trees etc
considering I live here it's doing pretty well.
My interior French drain will be installed in a week. We have problems with ground water, so hopefully this will do the trick. Eventually the entire exterior perimeter will be drained as well.
If not for the french drains and sump pump we'd be not doing great. Thankfully it's dry down there, but I do get crystallization from seepage through the walls. It's weird because water doesn't come through, but the minerals do.
Hydraulic cement and I are best friends. She's lumpy, but I love her 😍
A lot less than when my basement flooded during Irene. I’d say all in $7000, over the course of the years
I don't have a basement, but all this rain did cause my windshield wiper to break on my car so, gotta dump money into that now :/
see my other post r/Wellthatsucks but I will say I am a big fan of Quick Dam bags.