With all the recent rain, we have had problems with water seeping into our downstairs room. We have considered several ideas like sealing the bottomplate, adding a concrete berm to divert the water and chipping out a channel so the water gets channeled away. Any new and hopefully inexpensive ideas are certainly welcome...thanks in advance!!...hk
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Our house was built around 1975 and I built up the front yard beds. We eventually got mold in our 2 sunken rooms. Our neighbors had the same problem and they had to put in a drainage system. We did the same. We had seepage under our concrete front landing. A trench or concrete dam would not work. We were hoping for a easy way to fix the problem ,also - ha. You need to get a drainage company to check it in order to get to the source of the problem . GOOD LUCKGEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.
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On my bayhouse, I get water in downstairs room from heavy rains, so I dug a channel around the side of the house and that worked-the yard is crowned so that it is higher than the downstairs floor, so in heavy rains the runoff heads towards house. I dug a 4" trench along side of house to divert water from flowing into lowest structure/floor."Hey Hillary, regarding the Benghazi Attack on 9/11-we'll just blame it on that movie, not my total lack of security. By the way, what's so significant about 9/11 anyway-was that a date my buddy Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground blew up a government building?" asked Obama to Hillary. BEAUTIFY AMERICA, RUN OVER A LIBERAL, THEN BACK UP AND SEE IF HE'S DEAD.
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Yeah, the above may work. But, like LUREFISHER said, we had to put in a french drain- PVC pipe with holes in it and a " sock " covering it to capture water and drain it away from your house- and we had to put in grated drains for hard rain runoff. Like I said, it depends on the complexity of your situation. If it's not a sraight forward , simple cause you can figure out yourself, a knowlegeable drainage company will be needed.GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.
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Thanks for all the suggestions!!!...this is a bay house that once did not have a concrete driveway. Once the concrete driveway was poured/laid, it started draining/pooling in towards the downstairs room(existing slab). There is only concrete expansion seams. Flooding from sides where there is grass/dirt is not the problem...only where new slab meets old slab. When it really rains hard, we are in trouble and don't want to lose what we redid after Ike. So...french drain would help only if we completely chip out a drain in the slab to divert water. Thanks again for any more suggestions.
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Originally posted by HarryK View PostThanks for all the suggestions!!!...this is a bay house that once did not have a concrete driveway. Once the concrete driveway was poured/laid, it started draining/pooling in towards the downstairs room(existing slab). There is only concrete expansion seams. Flooding from sides where there is grass/dirt is not the problem...only where new slab meets old slab. When it really rains hard, we are in trouble and don't want to lose what we redid after Ike. So...french drain would help only if we completely chip out a drain in the slab to divert water. Thanks again for any more suggestions.I work just enough to pay for my fishing habit.
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