Work Begins - Day 1
bye bye basement floor
Today they made a trench around almost the entire basement, including around the old exterior walls since that area was wet too. Here Brian is admiring his busted up basement floor.
I know this isn't the greatest picture but you are looking at the trench along the wall that has given us the most problems. It's all full of water right now.
And here is the wall where all the new leaks were detected yesterday.You can tell it's wet from how dark the concrete is.
It was loud today...an a little unnerving. However, given how much water is coming up through the trench I know that we made the best decision to get this done right now rather than waiting! The two guys that are here are very nice and even thanked us for giving them such a spacious and well organized work space. I'm so glad that our, mostly Brian's, preparation work did not go unnoticed. There was some talk about rerouting our old sump pump to the front of the house, which really made me happy. Right now we have some ridiculous job made out of PBC piping that has never given us any problems, which is why we haven't touched it. This is perhaps the one thing, other than the closet mentioned yesterday, that we haven't touched on this property. However, it is unsightly and generally is a topic of conversation whenever someone comes over and notices it. Unfortunately, Milwaukee county won't let them reroute it because they aren't licensed plumbers. If we lived in Walworth county this wouldn't be a problem. Stupid Milwaukee county. Either way, I think this is something we are going to consider doing...I may have to move it ahead of my Solor Tubes on the home wish list.
Look for Brian's post tomorrow night!
2 comments:
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that it's supposed to thunderstorm after midnight tonight. If it starts raining hard I'm getting up to see if we have a river. I'm not exactly sure where the water would go other than the trench right now, but at least it shouldn't be all over the floor!
Do your sump pumps have battery/generator backup? When I lived in Chicago, our basement would flood any time that it rained and the power was out. Our hearts go out to you both, that has to be a major pain to deal with.
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