Our first project with our refi money is to waterproof the basement. Generally, we have little puddles along the rear of our house about half the time. Since it is a work area its not too big of a deal, but once in a while we'll get days and days of rain and those little puddles become huge puddles and the garage and our finished side of the basement start wet which, well, it sucks. We've done as much work outside with grading and underground pipes as we can, but it still didn't fix the problem. So we had to call in the professionals.
Our before pictures after we moved all of our stuff to the center wall.
Above is the garage area... hmmm, got mold?
Below is the work room/laundry area. Notice the customary standing puddles with ghost rings of heavy rains past.
Here's how it looks after day one.
They took a jackhammer and drilled our floor until they reached the footer. They will grade the trenches toward our (three!) sump pumps, drill holes to the exterior of the house to give the water a way in. Then they will fill the trench with a perforated pipe and stone and then they will cement over top. Yes, all this in two and half days! Its hard to believe.
Since it has been raining for two straight days this couldn't have been started at a better time! We could actually see the water already flowing down the partially dug trench. YAY!
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