2020年11月12日 · Due to long torrential rains the french drain was overwhelmed and my basement flooded, had 1 to 2 inches of water in spots. Luckily I have a water alarm so I found out early. I have a ~14 gallon shop vac which did a good job, but I had to empty it probably 10 times to get all the water out, all together it was about a 3 hour process.

2021年7月10日 · One thing I want to just mention since I grew up in a house in MA that had basement water issues, make sure your house has gutters, when my parents finally installed gutters with downspouts leading away from the house our basement stopped getting flooded. You may already have gutters and this is not helpful but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ...

2022年9月9日 · Our basement flooded a couple of weeks ago - nothing too bad. In one room, the entire floor was wet and small puddles throughout the rest of the basement. We mopped it up, identified where the ground water came in as it rained a lot a few days before, checked our gutters, built the soil up outside, and planned on having a mason come over to ...

2018年4月20日 · It's also possible that the pipe going from the basement drain to outside or city sewer is damaged. If this pipes goes outside and drains away from the house, it is possible the pipe has a crack or multiple cracks or is severely deteriorated. In this case the water in the ground is getting in the pipe and coming back in the basement.

2014年10月23日 · There's the main shutoff in the basement that runs out through the basement wall under the sidewalk to an exterior shutoff that the city workers can operate through a metal plate in the sidewalk. We tried calling the water department again since the repair crew never showed up, but they basically told us the same thing licenses and inspection ...

2024年4月8日 · The sump pumps both failed, and there was three inches of standing water in our finished basement. The basement is carpeted with two bedrooms, a laundry room, and a living room. The morning after the flood, Servpro came to our home and fixed the sump pumps as well as installing FOUR additional temporary pumps to mitigate the water.

Im in Oakvile and my family rented this 2 bedroom basement apartment. Yesterday the water heater tank pipes burst and our basement floor was soaked with water. My hubby had to ask for work time off just to clean our place however our landlord did not even help us clean nor sent anyone to clean.

Basement flooded with about 2 inches of water from rain and sewer backup. Basement is about 1,200 square feet. Restoration company is quoting me $44K to tear out, dry down, and treat for mold.

2021年9月6日 · When I was a new homeowner I discovered a little mold in my basement. Paid $3,000 in a LCOL area in the Midwest for maybe 500-600 sq feet. They tore out the drop ceiling, the carpet, sprayed for mold, and scraped most of the carpet glue off the floor (although I still spent 10 hours scraping the rest of it off so I could just paint the basement ...

2015年7月8日 · Smoke/humidity damage is always expected by them. No need to lie, just say look all that networking and server equipment I mentioned, it was sitting in the basement that flooded. It needs to be replaced. Make sure you have an itemized spreadsheet of EVERYTHING with links to proof of where you got the pricing.