Not what you want to find...
 

A good inch or two of standing water in your downstairs... not to mention your car... Not a good day...

It wasn't a foot. So that's a good thing.

what about your car?? it aint leaking is it?
hope it stops raining n the cleanup isnt to bad
sorry this happend bro.

The car is leaking... calling the dealer tomorrow, we are in the process of wet vac'n the downstairs, we have easily dumped 150 gallons so far.

What the hell happened to your house? water heater bust?

I've had this happen before......the basement part. Unfortunately Chris and I were both working and we had torrential rain. The float in the sump pump had gotten stuck and we arrived home to about 2 feet of water :eek: It really sucked. Thankfully that was before we turned the basement into a game room with a pool table. (BTW) our basement had some strange system that collected water from the outer walls of the basement to the sump to drain out. What idiot designed that?!?

Many days of hard rain combined with inadequate drainage. It wasn't our fault because we didn't know, the owner should have let us know but naturally it slipped their mind.

That sucks, 2 feet, we have 2 inches at most, but it's every where and it hasn't stopped leaking in yet. It has slowed, but not stopped.

It's such a mess. The one good thing is we don't have to clean up or repair, the owners are taking care of that... calling in the pros. It's just such a headache...

Hope it wasn't a sanitary sewer backup. I've had that a couple times. :(

glad the owners are taking care of it..
get the pro's n there, they'll get it cleaned up for ya
make the owners fix the drainage issues too..

Yeah we have had that happen a couple times including one time when the whole pipe was bad, it was very expensive.

Yeah, the owner is actually in Japan right now and no one can reach her, her boyfriend and mother are helping us out now.

Hillsdale, that's actually a standard design and works great unless.... Your sump pump quits (like yours did), I highly recommend the secondary sump pump with the battery backup. It seems that when the power goes out it is usually raining... hard.
Plus it acts as a back up in case your primary pump doesn't work for any reason.

sump pumps work great unless your sewer is flowing into your basement. then its just an endless cycle.

Yep thats right, surrounding you basment in drain tile will at least keep the water going into the sump....as long as your sunp works....

That's just..... er...... um...... :barf:

yeah we had s%$t hitting the fan literally.

We've gotten water in our basement of our new house a few times...I think it is coming in around an old chimney though so when i put a new roof on I will take the chimney out.

Just ripped out all the carpet and padding, man that stuff is heavy when it's soaked in water. Just have to wait for the concrete to dry and the new carpet/padding goes in... in like a week.

why did you rip it out..
thought the owners were havin this taken care of. lol
and yeah, wet carpet is smelly and heavy :roll:

The carpet was going to be replaced no matter what. One company wanted $5,000 to vacuum it and remove it, we just did it ourselves and now the concrete is drying out.

restoration companies charge a ton bc they get it from insurance companies. in our case here the insurance would only give us 3k bc we dont have flood insurance bc we r not in a flood plane.