Questions tagged [flooding]
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Overthinking basement flooding prevention?
I've been recommended by two companies now to install an interior vapor barrier along my basement walls to prevent the water that is shooting out during heavy rains. The vapor barrier will stop water ...
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Need a quick fix for leaking door frame. During flood
We are in the middle of tropical storm and there is flooding on one side of house.
The side door seems to be leaking from under the frame (not the actual door) its too wet to duct tape.
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How can I fix pooling water due to my fence?
I got my fence installed a few months ago on a down sloping part of my yard. I need to resolve the nagging issue I have of water pooling due to it not being able to get through the fence fast enough.
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Will using a flood guard on cellar drain cause excess storm water to go to upper floors?
Just recently has storm backwater flood my basement through the 2 floor drains. A few weeks ago when my neighbor was draining his backyard pool I noticed remnants of slight flooding, but last night ...
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How to safely run power out to pond pump?
I built a pond that is about 50 feet from the house and nearest outlet and need to run a pond pump in it. The pond is too large for the solar-powered pumps I have seen.
I considered simply buying a ...
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Would I have flow issues if I hookup a 1hp sump pump along with a 3/4hp sump pump with a wye?
Backstory. I own a home that has a driveway that slopes towards the garage. The garage has a grill in front of it to catch all the excess water drainage and dump it outside the house, I presume to ...
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Sump pump only turns on when I open the lid - working ok?
I noticed some damp patches and mold in our basement recently after some heavy rain so I opened the sump pump lid. When I opened the lid, the water level was at a very high level:
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Can I dig a foundation below flood elevation outside the Floodplain?
Looking for answers from people building foundations near (not in) the 100 year floodplain. Does this trigger a floodplain build permitting process? Am I basically pigeonholed into a monolithic pour ...
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What are watertight storage solutions to protect objects from flood water?
Our home is prone to occasional flooding during the rainy season. There was only one time in 26 years where our home was devastated by the flood reaching up to half of the 2nd floor. This destroyed so ...
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How can I insulate my porch floor?
I have a wooden screened-in porch on a cabin that I am remodeling, with approximately 30 inches from the ground to the bottom of the porch tongue-and-groove boards. I am considering insulating the ...
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Flood Plain Craziness - Do I really have to listen to the county here?
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Preface - I am NOT building in the flood plain. Is the burden of proof on the county to prove i'm not complying with the rules? What is the worst to happen if I simply build a 100% flood ...
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how to tell if a remote lot ever floods?
Any way to tell if some remote lots I have ever floods? It's 3 hours away and i've been there a few times and even after rains seems not, but I'd like to be sure. would driving some white wood ...
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How to deal with backyard flooding?
So I am finally tired of walking through puddles to get to my garage. I am doing research to find out the best way to deal with my backyard flooding problem. I am in a townhouse with a small backyard ...
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How can I determine the source of a basement flood?
My basement flooded recently and I'm trying to determine why.
The basement has poured foundation walls and a slab. The slab is non-structural, and was poured after the foundation walls. There is a ...
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My house is flooding and I have things plugged into an extension cord that is getting wet what do I do
I'm freaking out because the extension cord that has a lot of things plugged into it is on the floor this whole place is concrete floors and it's flooding or sleeping in and it's right there right ...
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Is it normal to have flooding in basement after radon mitigation system installed?
I have been experiencing flooding in my basement. I think the water is coming from the pipe installed in slab for radon mitigation. I don't believe the basement was flooding before (I just closed on ...
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Foundation flooding caused by new septic line
We've been living in our house for 10 years, and a few years after moving in our sewer line began backing up every 6 months or so. Each time, we'd have to pay a plumber to come in a "roto root" or ...
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Does Homeowner's Insurance Typically Cover A Broken Well?
My well is horizontally fed through a wall in my foundation. It recently rained a lot and I believe the pipe that feeds my well has been cracked. I had to cut the power to my well pump in order to ...
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Should I leave a treeline to mitigate flooding in my backyard?
I have a 1942 colonial near Hartford, CT. It is a corner lot, and one of the streets I am on recently experienced a flash flood. Our house stayed dry, but we saw water up to three feet in the street ...
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How should I address water seeping into basement?
I just bought a house that was built in the early fifties, with an unfinished basement. Recently, after a heavy rainfall, some water leaked into certain parts of the basement (see photos).
This is a ...
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How do I attach gutters to a french drain, does the perforated pipe need to run entire distance?
We have an ongoing problem with water pooling in a pseudo gulley between my house and my neighbors house. We have water that drains from the backyards to this area, along with two gutter roof drainage ...
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Time Frame For Dealing With Flooded Carpet
I hope this question is appropriate to this Stack.
My elderly mother lives alone in a townhouse with a basement, since my father passed about six months ago. This morning, the basement experienced ...
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Adding a indoor concrete ramp to existing concrete
My plan is to build a mold (by building a shallow wooden box, made to support putting a sheet of aluminum inside to create the curve) and fill it (upside down of course) with concrete to create what ...
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rainwater entering doorway below driveway
I have converted garage with door way about 4 inches below the driveway. Previous owner left this issue for me. My questions is i want to cut into concrete to create drainage system, french drain ...
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Is there a type of pump or device that will sit on a flooded floor and quietly suck up a puddle of water?
There is a slow leak in our finished basement - it should be fixed eventually but we are looking for an interim solution to a constant puddle of water in the middle of the floor.
Floor is ceramic ...
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New home owner with water problem
Our house was built in the the 80s, and sometime after that they converted the garage into a new living space, and added a new garage. I live below a flood plain, and have water coming into the house ...
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Flooding In New Construction Building
This weekend, water was observed flowing up, through the floor and through other joints, into the building - making a swimming pool we didn't ask for!
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We currently have a project ...
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Is it safe to enable a service panel that has been recently flooded?
My breaker panel started gushing water during a storm. Is it safe for us to turn it on now that it's over? Does it need to be replaced? Will we get electrocuted if we turn it on while it's still wet ...
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Using sodium polyacrylate to clean flooded homes
In the aftermath of Kerala, India, floods, videos are circulating advising people to buy cheap Sodium Polyacrylate and apply it to the layer of mud or standing water deposited. How good/bad is this ...
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Basement window coverup leaking
This house is in need of a lot of work. The biggest problem I have right now is the basement flooding. Had new gutters put in in the past month which helped a little but my biggest issue now is where ...
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How do I stop water entering from where the stack meets the wall in the basment?
I just bought a house and everything in it is fine. Untill the other day when there was water in the basment. I initially thought it was related to the washer but I found out it was coming from the ...
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How can flood water come in through a toilet?
Video on Facebook
Fredrick Maryland is experiencing severe flooding and one home owner has flood water gushing in the house through the toilet. You can view the video from the Facebook link above. ...
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Building a basement at or below water level?
Is there a method for building a basement that would be at or slightly below water level?
We have a home that is built roughly 50 feet from a creek that's generally dry during spring and summer ...
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Landscaping - How to Correct Heavily Flooded Yard
I live on a fairly small urban lot (~3100sq/ft) and have been having issues with water pooling in my backyard. Recently during a very large rainfall this caused my basement to flood. I'm going to be ...
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Where can I move my electric panel
March 15, 2018 -- I have lived in my tiny, 1 ½ story house in Boston since 1994, and I want to upgrade my electrical panel from 100 amps to 200 amps. The current panel is located in my basement, ...
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Basement Flooding suddenly. It looks like I have a French drain. Why is it still flooding?
I recently bought a house and for the first month+, there was absolutely no water in the basement. All of a sudden one day, I go downstairs and there are puddles! I look and see that the water is ...
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Mystery: Water vanished from flooded basement with no floor drain
I live on a century old home whose unfinished basement got flooded this week. We had heavy rainfall which overwhelmed the city's storm sewer.
At a certain point there were about two inches of water ...
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Elevating a water heater to avoid damage during flooding
I have read another thread concerning the elevation of electric water heaters but nothing seemed to address my particular situation: I live on a barrier island and it floods here every couple of ...
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What to do about water under interlocking floor?
I started a load of laundry and apparently the drain tube had come out and it ran most of the water from the load onto the floor.. We have the interlocking floor tiles but there are gaps and in a ...
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Mold in basement
I recently bought a condo and noticed that there was what appears to be a dark colored mold growing on this gypsum board that is bolted to the cement foundation in my basement. On the top of the ...
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What considerations need to be taken when building a lakefront property?
I'm in the process of evaluating a lake-front lot in my city in hopes of building my next home there. The lot is on a small peninsula as seen on google maps here.
I briefly talked to a friend of mine ...
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Should i remove wainscoting to allow flooded walls to dry out?
We have a bay window with a French Drain just outside. We used to have gutters and a large downspout that drained into the French Drain, but during roof replace in 2002 the workers damaged the gutters ...
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How to shave down or flatten - surface concrete of garage - rain water leaking in under door
I have a garage floor - the floor in the garage has sunken leaving the area at the exterior foundation wall - Entrance - to sit up higher like a nice ramp which makes a perfect Rain Water collection ...
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We're in the middle of a(n epic) flood. Why won't my toilet flush?
Apologies if this isn't exactly on topic, but I found Why will my toilet not flush after it rains or when ground is wet here, and my question is similar, so hopefully I can get a response.
I live in ...
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Can property changes be made to change flood zone determination?
About a year after I originally purchased my home, FEMA sent me a notice that they had updated their maps and decided I was in a flood zone and needed to pay flood insurance. I've been paying ever ...
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Sewage water draining behind home below walk out deck?
At my girlfriend's mom's house she purchased last year. It's an older home built in the 50's. They are having drainage problems and flooding in the walk out area below grade (see pictures). We popped ...
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Increasing grade next to house
Our house is built into a small hill, leaving a section of our basement exposed with both a small garage and a people door leading to the driveway. There are several (3-4) courses of block above the ...
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Washing machine hose backing up and overflowing AFTER septic tank has been emptied
A few months ago, my washer started overflowing from the pvc pipe. A friend who's very well versed at plumbing cut the PVC pipe, snaked it and there was nothing blocking it. He pulled the cap off the ...
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garage flooding [closed]
My house is on a steep hill. When it rains the garage floods. I have a concrete floor that is on a slope so need some way to divert the water that floods from the back of the garage down to the front.
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Sump Pump issues - both died and constant pit filling
Looking for some advice on a very unfortunately timed breakdown.
Came home tonight to see some wet spots on the basement concrete near some cracks and looked over to see the sump put filled right to ...
