State of the Cox House and environs.
We have somehow (amazingly, based on what happened last year) avoided any major water into our basement through these MILLION DAYS of rain. We have a teeny seepage in through a hairline crack in the front of the house, but my nifty sump-pump setup outside the back door has remained mostly untested. I think it filled up ONCE Friday night, and emptied, because the next morning when I checked it, it was still partially filled, but lower than it had been before. I was secure enough in our dryness that I loaned poor ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
technoluddite (See his blog for the tale) our pump, hand-delivering it to Revere last night, and spending some time with him getting the generator and pump running for a while. He reports this morning he is down to a foot of water, from the 29 inches he had last night when I arrived. By his math, 29 inches of water in 2200 sq. ft of space is approximately 40 THOUSAND gallons of water. We were over there until about 1:30 this morning doing what we could, and I was up again this morning to go to Lowes at 7:15am, and I scored him a pretty LARGE sewage sump, the last sump pump in the entire store, which will pump out water, sewage, "solids" (yuck) and other yummy things in a basement soup at the rate of 7000 gal/hr. Pretty spiffy. I'll trade him for the little pump back (and a lot of money) and he should be much happier.
I also (oops) managed to create my own little puddle with our dehumidifier (craigslist find) when I mis-seated the drain bucket last night after rigging up the outflow to pump out through the furnace-drain pump. I'm CLEVAH. (I'll also probably need a replacement furnace pump into another year, but they're cheap.)
In the meantime, our basement is staying dry, and I'm working on the same for a friend.
technoluddite (See his blog for the tale) our pump, hand-delivering it to Revere last night, and spending some time with him getting the generator and pump running for a while. He reports this morning he is down to a foot of water, from the 29 inches he had last night when I arrived. By his math, 29 inches of water in 2200 sq. ft of space is approximately 40 THOUSAND gallons of water. We were over there until about 1:30 this morning doing what we could, and I was up again this morning to go to Lowes at 7:15am, and I scored him a pretty LARGE sewage sump, the last sump pump in the entire store, which will pump out water, sewage, "solids" (yuck) and other yummy things in a basement soup at the rate of 7000 gal/hr. Pretty spiffy. I'll trade him for the little pump back (and a lot of money) and he should be much happier.I also (oops) managed to create my own little puddle with our dehumidifier (craigslist find) when I mis-seated the drain bucket last night after rigging up the outflow to pump out through the furnace-drain pump. I'm CLEVAH. (I'll also probably need a replacement furnace pump into another year, but they're cheap.)
In the meantime, our basement is staying dry, and I'm working on the same for a friend.
