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, Sun, 1 Jan 2012 09:59:40
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Hello again,
Your description of your old house with the river running under it and the sounds you got drilling holes in the pipes was very funny.
Sounds like you are well on your way to having some flood protection peace of mind.
And I'm not sure if anyone else seconded, but I will recommend Zoeller pumps again. Again we now have 8 pumps, and have burned up more than I can count, but never killed a Zoeller (yet) and we've had them years and again, they run for DAYS when they run.
Same goes for a battery backup. We had instances of short power outages - like an hour, and that was enough time without the pumps running to take in 1 to 2 feet of water depending upon the storm, then had the flood water knock out our water heater, heat / AC, well pump, etc.
Battery backup pumps are good insurance against that sort of fun at least if yours is like ours in terms of flood water speed. It's a fairly common phenomena around our neighborhood.
Re: filling in the old furnace hole, if it were me, I'd wait and make sure it isn't going to fill with water before you pour concrete.
If you do fill it with concrete, and there water under it wanting to rise, it will just find somewhere else to show up in your basement, possibly where you don't have a pit and pump ready to go, such as where your slab meets the foundation or could form new slab cracks / springs.
So I would be careful about not filling in the old furnace hole so you don't create a hydraulic spring somewhere else in that basement since it will be easier to manage in the existing furnace "pit".
My extra two cents worth about the hole - from people living where water rises up from underneath the house, and if we don't give the water a place to go, it will find its own way! ;)
posted by 75.25....
, Sun, 1 Jan 2012 05:35:12, Sun, 1 Jan 2012 09:59:40
, Sun, 1 Jan 2012 06:12:51
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