Well, I should have said they will look clean. When in fact all the sand and salt have been blasted all over your car.

The only wash my beater has gotten since I removed my hose in October was the rains the other day.

 

it's acutally an old cesspool and since i live on wetlands all the rain might fill it - so if i keep a sump pump in it and drain it by the tracks i should be ok

 

Well, no doubt if the water table rises youcould have trouble, but my old system never flooded out. Does yours flood out now? You might want to get some sump pumps now for your basement and septic because they sell out fast once the rains start. Get a puddle sucker attachment for the basement if you do not have a pit dug already. The puddle sucker will pull down to about 3/16 of an inch, which isn't bad at all.

 

municipal sewer system here

 

In the area I live all the houses have sump pumps. In my situation the pump is active in the spring, fall and winter. In the spring and fall it kicks on several times per hour, in the winter maybe once or twice a day. Because of this situation I also have a backup system that runs by water pressure, not electricity, so even if I loose power, I can keep the sump pump activated if needed.

The strangest thing is, I have a very, very dry basement. It amazes me, the walls are bone dry, the floor is bone dry, but below that floor there is indeed plenty of moisture.

And, the weird thing, because of this, I have no drains in the basement floor. The water that runs out of the laundry tubs, the washing machine, and the furnace humidifyer, all go into a grey water pump, that pumps the water up and over the concrete wall and sends it out into my septic system.

 

I have the same deal here, Dry as a bone basement but wow do I have water under the house. The previous owner jack-hammered the entire perimeter of my basement on the inside and installed drainage than refilled with cement, on the outside of the home he excavated down to the footer installed drainage and back-filled. He than tied all of this into a large junction box buried outside the front of the home that all of this drainage goes to attached to that is a 4 inch plastic drain pipe that is routed to a stream that runs on the side of the house which drains into a wetland area located about 600 ft to the front of the home. He even went so far as to reroute the stream from over ground to under ground with a 14 inch pipe. This gave me back a lot of land. I dont even want to think of the cost of doing all this, for him im sure it was not much as his dad owned an excavation/constuction company. I have been here for 13 years and i have never had any measurable water in the house but wow you should see those pipes draining! When the water gets rolling my garage floor floats, its built within a foundation and footer but the slab for the floor is free and when the cars pull in the garage it pushes water out the seams nothing major but I can only imagine how much water is under it. I hope it all remains like this as my studio is located in the basement and there is not even a sump pump down there although i do own one if needed along with a generator if it all goes wacky here.

 

thanks for the advise - i do have a sump pump in the basement (a fancy one) so the basement should be ok

 

my basement is basically dry.
for a while we had a problem where they left a hole in the foundation for the pipe out to the septic that they never used.
when the water table got real high it would allow water to seep in.
eventually i got clever enough to figure out how to plug a 8 in hole with pvc liner in concrete. since then bone dry.

if i get the ambition I'll take pictures of my dam this weekend if we get a good enough water flow. that and barb letting me take camera out in the rain to play.

 

Very much the same, my floor was poured as a huge slab, but it is back from the concrete blocks by about 1", and that entire "crack" all tapers to one corner where it runs into the sump pump's crock.

I have had 1-problem since I have been in the house, last spring I noticed the sump pump seemed to just run all the time. When I went down to check it out I discovered the 1-way check valve had failed, so the pump sent the water out, and then gravity brought a portion of it right back it. I was very happy to get a pplumber 1-mile down the road who was willing to pop over on a friday morning right away quick like.

I'm envious! I need to do this big time! My cape cod has both gutters for the house taking water to one end of the house, and there is just not enough pitch to the land on that side, so during really wet times I can see the block wall starting to get damp. But I have never had running water like some of my neighbors have to deal with.

 

This snow better melt slow and easy!!!! Grab shot of the driveway an hour ago.