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Wet Basements

sparky-2007
16 years ago

I live in the country and have a gravity fed drainage line into a deep ditch. Last fall and this spring was very wet. I had water coming in at three places where the poured wall meets the footing. A friend and myself dug it all up and found the drainage tile ( big O ) all plugged with silt . I put in new big O , tarred the walls and put in lots of stone. Two days ago it rained very heavy for two days and guess what, water back in basement . It took 9 days to do the work and I have to landscape. Seems I wasted my time and money.Would it help to put in a sump hole somewhere in floor toi try and get access water? It would be too much work to put the new line into sump. I was thinking of just putting im a sump hole with a pump. If so where would I dig sump hole. Hope someone can help.

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