water in the basement... ain't going to stop me.... 1/21/06 UPDATE

[streettrains]

rainy day here in the Northeast, water slowly creeping the basement, but it ain't going to stop me.. going to keep working until the water gets to me.. hahahaha[:p]

can always climb up on the layout... Hell or High water!!!!

1/21/06
well it has stopped me, as of last weekend, the railroad has shut down. Water is almost up to the house. 2 pumps running and they are holding their own... hoping the water will go back or at least crest.... as of today.. it looks like it has stopped creeping up.. but we will see in the morning...

but as of now, things are shut down & a work stoppage...

Mike

[Anonymous]

Keep your power supply prostected so you don't get electrocuted., Good luck. Phil

[streettrains]

well at the moment, all the power tools are battery powered.. hahahaha.. coffee break here.... then back downstairs....

[waltersrails]

lol keep it safe

[Anonymous]

That was my life as a teenage model railroader in my parents home. Mostly in the spring the concrete block basement walls would leak. On one side of my layout, under it, and I had to sweep it across to the other side where the drain was. Nothing catastrophic, just a small stream of water. I learned to live with it because I didn't have any choice.

Good luck with your problem!

Bob Boudreau

[Bill H.]

BAH! A little water? No problem...

[Budliner]

try to check the gutters
its all the difference in the world

so you can get more train time in down in the basement


K

[streettrains]

pump now running non stop... but thank God it has switched to snow....

[roadrat]

I have that problem with every long heavy rain storm, water just seeps up from the floor hell I don't even have a floor drain I have to open up the sewer clean out cap. what a pain but my house is 119 years old so *&%$ happens.
I just use the water as an excuse to clean the cellar floor.


bill

[dave9999]

I never get water in my basement... Wait a minute, we don't have basements in Florida.[%-)]
I have always envied all off you who have basements. Must be nice. I am about to build
an out building to house a new layout. I would love to just go downstairs... Good luck
with your water problem. Dave

[streettrains]

well the pump ran all night, it was over the sump pump hole & pump, but things are down, still soem water in.. hopefully by tomorrow night things will be alittle better

[MidlandPacific]

I have the same problem - old house with a brick foundation, so a good rainstorm lets some water in the front corner. The foundation specialists told me I could either install a sump pump or excavate the front yard and coat the foundation exterior with plastic. My flooding is still just the big puddle scale, so I haven't made up my mind what I'm going to do. A dehumidifier helps, and I built my layout with PVC pipe footings to keep the wood off the floor.

[joseph2]

I used to get water out of the floor whenever it rained.I had Roto-Rooter clean out the drainage tile that ran around the basement perimeter,they got clumps of tree roots out of the tile which stopped the water problem.

[Medina1128]

Hey, use the water to model a harbor RR line..

[Budliner]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Medina1128

Hey, use the water to model a harbor RR line..

took the words right out of my mouth


K

[selector]

My Dad just found the hard way that the plans for his 45 year old home are bogus. There IS no perimeter drainage! So, for CDN $4500, he had Roto-rooter come in, tell him the bad news, dig up his perimter on three sides down 2', put in 4" PVS perforated piping and cleanouts on the corners, hook it up to the front street storm sewer, and spade in a couple of yards of crushed rock over the piping. Then, a messy back-fill, leaving a cruddy lawn for him to deal with in the spring.

[doctorwayne]

Well, I hope you have success clearing up your water problem. My sump pump, mandatory in all new homes in this area, prevents water from collecting on the floor. It is, however, not at all effective with water on the layout.



(Not trying to make light of your difficulties, but this was just recently completed, and this seems like an apt place to slip it in.)

Wayne

[streettrains]

Well the nice thing water is concentrated in one area at the moment, the worst it got was when I got all the way to the other side where the layout is,,, or I should say the other half... sump pump hole is in the middle against the wall.. well 3:30 am ( have to go to work early), pump still pumping.. but not as much water, but it is still filling the hole...

have a good day ,

Mike

[jeffers_mz]

"We're not going back. You hear those people? They're desperate. They'll swamp us trying to get in. They should have grabbed a lifeboat when they had a chance, it's their own fault."

(Dr. Wayne, nice, very nice.)

[dragenrider]

Grandfunkrailroad,

If it gets to this point, you have to admit you have a problem:

[streettrains]

not at that point yet!! hahahahaha... but now have TWO pumps going.. and I think we have evened up the odds.. I hope... they are calling for more rain here.. which does suck (sucking like the pumps!!) hahaha.. but hoping soon.. real soon to get back.. I was all set and ready to roll on the layout...

[jeffshultz]

We've gotten a lot of water, but no flooding - at least not inside the house. I'm not even sure the sump pump works quite honestly, but the big hole it's sitting in out in back of the house seems to be doing a good job of making sure everything stays drained.

[streettrains]

well there is Springfield, next weekend...