FinanceDude
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- Aug 3, 2006
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MAYBE I can finish this d*mn project now! It has been sitting 95% done for 4 months. Every time we have a torrential downpour (5 times this year alone), I get a little bit of water next to the wall 4 feet long and 5 inches wide. I can't put carpet down until the thing's fixed.
I redid the pitch of the grade, extended and screwed on the downspouts, had a crew put in an extra drain tile extension from the window well down to the drain tiles, etc.
Finally this week, they excavated that side of the house and found:
1)The cross-bleeders were almost 80% plugged, mostly by careless concrete spilled by the builder when the house was built.
2)No exteriors cracks (nice, because it is a block wall)
3)Waterproof tar was almost all gone, and wall was pretty wet.
4)There was barely any stone down there, and the whole subdivision is clay soil.......
They backfilled with stone, finished the last 18 inches with 50/50 mix which they pitched, waterproofed the outside wall, put in new drain tile, and replanted the plants I had pulled out so they could dig. This better take care of it or else!
I did get a warranty from the company for 10 years, so I guess that's something........I started this project almost 2 years ago!!
I redid the pitch of the grade, extended and screwed on the downspouts, had a crew put in an extra drain tile extension from the window well down to the drain tiles, etc.
Finally this week, they excavated that side of the house and found:
1)The cross-bleeders were almost 80% plugged, mostly by careless concrete spilled by the builder when the house was built.
2)No exteriors cracks (nice, because it is a block wall)
3)Waterproof tar was almost all gone, and wall was pretty wet.
4)There was barely any stone down there, and the whole subdivision is clay soil.......
They backfilled with stone, finished the last 18 inches with 50/50 mix which they pitched, waterproofed the outside wall, put in new drain tile, and replanted the plants I had pulled out so they could dig. This better take care of it or else!
I did get a warranty from the company for 10 years, so I guess that's something........I started this project almost 2 years ago!!