jesus christ. Get to work at 7a. Wife calls an hour and a half later "there's water in the basement". All i'm thinking is "son of a bitch, I literally have the new sump and the backup sitting there waiting to go in, was going to do that on Friday". So I'm MF'ing myself the whole way home but whatever.
Rush home, little under an inch of water throughout the entire basement, but the sump is running. So I go out to look at the discharge pipe that I mentioned trenching out a couple weeks ago. Apparently the trench wasn't deep enough because the same shit happened once the ground saturated from the storms yesterday. Water built up on top of the discharge instead of flowing down the yard, and the pressure from the water was great enough that the discharge off the house backed up and just continuously poured water all over the dirt in that corner of the house. Dig the trench out nice and deep, water starts flowing, then it's time to get to work. LUCKILY it's garbage day. We've been meaning to clean the basement out forever, it's not bad but we have goodwill stuff, old stuff, some garbage etc. Take all the garbage out to the street and start moving shit and squeegeeing.
3 hours later i'm done and I'm actually not upset at all. Basement floor looks amazing and I got rid of a lot of shit we didn't need.
2 big fans and a dehumidifier are running right now.
The sump is still cycling on about every 5 minutes as a little water continues to flow in. It ran straight through for HOURS though. Fucking champ. Time to replace, it's done well
Rush home, little under an inch of water throughout the entire basement, but the sump is running. So I go out to look at the discharge pipe that I mentioned trenching out a couple weeks ago. Apparently the trench wasn't deep enough because the same shit happened once the ground saturated from the storms yesterday. Water built up on top of the discharge instead of flowing down the yard, and the pressure from the water was great enough that the discharge off the house backed up and just continuously poured water all over the dirt in that corner of the house. Dig the trench out nice and deep, water starts flowing, then it's time to get to work. LUCKILY it's garbage day. We've been meaning to clean the basement out forever, it's not bad but we have goodwill stuff, old stuff, some garbage etc. Take all the garbage out to the street and start moving shit and squeegeeing.
3 hours later i'm done and I'm actually not upset at all. Basement floor looks amazing and I got rid of a lot of shit we didn't need.
2 big fans and a dehumidifier are running right now.
The sump is still cycling on about every 5 minutes as a little water continues to flow in. It ran straight through for HOURS though. Fucking champ. Time to replace, it's done well