I am in the middle of replacing a busted kitchen faucet. Three simple words -- I HATE PLUMBING!
Richard
mbinsewiIt looks like your using vinyl plank fooring, and laying it right on the concrete floor.
That is correct, Mike
The cheap particle board that was in there since 1987 has served me well but it is time to go. The rest of the basement has rubber-backed carpet tiles that can easily be removed if necessary.
The engineered plank floor locks together extremely well and has a soft foam backing. It floats on the concrete, no adhesive.
I put 4" perf drain pipe in the window wells but I'm planning to dig all the washed stone out and refill with fresh stone. I did put a clean-out in the drain and it is tied to the footer drain. I believe the huge inrush of water was more than the 4" pipe could handle.
We model railroaders sometimes have few choices when it comes to available space. Fortunately, 99.9% of the time my basement is very dry and comfortable. Watch out for that .01%
Thanks, Ed
Garry: I was thinking the same thing. So I will check dates and keep watch.
gmpullmanLived in this house 35 years and never had a weather-related basement soaking. Now, two in less than nine months?
It looks like your using vinyl plank fooring, and laying it right on the concrete floor. Probably about the best you can do, along with whatever it takes to get the yard, and the window well to drain properly.
I've seen window wells with an actual drain that connects to the buildings basement drain tile system, and I've seen some where the area beneath the window well was completely filled with washed stone, from the drain tile on up, the latter being a deep window well required for an egress window.
I hope you got it solved this time Ed.
Mike.
My You Tube
SeeYou190 Heartland Division CB&Q Kevin ...... Nashville is a about a 100 miles from here. Mostly via I-24. . Garry: This trip is going to be ten 12 hour days one right after the other. I am setting up a training center this week, with the first class beginning on Monday. Any free time I have will be consumed by application engineering on the new heavy lift crane they are proving in the same facility. . I will be back in Nashville (plans anyway, these things change) the following days, and I will be free. . Sunday September 22nd Sunday October 20th . PM me if either of those days look promising.-Kevin .
Heartland Division CB&Q Kevin ...... Nashville is a about a 100 miles from here. Mostly via I-24.
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Garry: This trip is going to be ten 12 hour days one right after the other. I am setting up a training center this week, with the first class beginning on Monday. Any free time I have will be consumed by application engineering on the new heavy lift crane they are proving in the same facility.
I will be back in Nashville (plans anyway, these things change) the following days, and I will be free.
Sunday September 22nd
Sunday October 20th
PM me if either of those days look promising.-Kevin
Kevin..... At this point, those dates sound good. Let's wait until we are closer to them. Sunday afternoons should be okay . ... There are two layouts here at the lake. Mine and also a friend has an Illinois Central layout.
MLC.... You may wish to think ahead to Kevin's possible dates if you want to see the layouts here too.
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Ulrich ... That is fast.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Heartland Division CB&QIt set the record for fastest steam locomotive at about 115 mph.
Add 11mph to that, Garry! Mallard was the one and only steam engine hitting 126mph on a speed run on July 3rd, 1938. The German class 05 Hudson missed that target by less than 1mph on May 9th, 1936.
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Howdy .
Ulrich .... Thanks for the Tornado video. I recall seeing the Mallard in the British Railway Museum in York, England. It set the record for fastest steam locomotive at about 115 mph.
Good morning. Would be great to see that Tornado come by at full speed!
When we bought the house years ago, the backyard was sloped towards the house. Got water in the basement through a window well one time.
I spent a lot of hours and days, by hand, digging and sloping the yard away from the house. The yard now drains to the opposite end. Haven't had water since. (I know, I know, I shouldn't be saying that. The jinx will be a foot of water in the basement after the next rain.)
TF, please take this in the spirit it's given. I know you and others will greatly miss your friend, but what a blessing that he passed away in a few short days, not lying for months in a hospital suffering.
Russ, hope your doc appointments go well and you can get a new hip soon.
I'm still waiting on the tree man to finish taking out the dead tree in the backyard. I talked to him on the phone and he promised today or tomorrow. I hate being a pain in the rear to someone.
Have a good day.
York1 John
Tornado Warning!
No, I don´t mean those mean whirlwinds that leave a path of destruction where they passed through - I am talking about the one and only mainline steam engine built in the 21st century in Britain, with the boiler coming from Germany.
Tornado is a reproduction of LNERs famous Peppercorn A1 Pacifics, who all had been scrapped at the end of the steam days in the late 1960s. In 1990, a group of people formed the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust, which aimed at building an A1 Peppercorn Pacific. These people were regarded to be a lot of mental cases at that time, but after 18years of drumming up support, collecting money and hard graft, the A1 "Tornado" was born! Today, it is the only 100mph steam locomotive in the word that travels at speeds of 90+mph on a regular basis. Deutsch Reichsbahn 18 201 is even faster, but rarely goes faster than 85mph.
See this fascinating video about her maiden run at a speed of 100mph!
I despise water in the basement. When the water table would get high I would get rivulets crosiing the basement. I had a company called Helitech come in and put in their inside drain system prob 10 years ago and I have been dry ever since. second best money I spent. The best money I spent was getting a new sewer line put in. every Feb I would get a sewer clog and up the basement drain it would come. The previous home owners had the line replaced years before but the plumber did not glue the joints on the line so roots grew in.
The day after the Helitech guys finished it came a monsoon, like Ed's 6 inches in 2 hours. I had not a drop in the basement.
Heartland Division CB&QKevin ...... Nashville is a about a 100 miles from here. Mostly via I-24.
PM me if either of those days look promising.
gmpullmanLived in this house 35 years and never had a weather-related basement soaking.
Well, one good thing about the little house I own is that the basement will never flood!
So sorry Ed. That looks like a real pain.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good Morning!
Gee, how I hate those mosquitos! One of those critters found its way into the bedroom and strated to buzz around me at 4am, waking me up. Well, I got it and that one won´t buzz anymore!
Ken - I am glad Sparkie recovered a little bit. He is donating some more time to you!
British Transport Films was an organisation set up in 1949 to make documentary films on the general subject of British transport. Its work included internal training films, travelogues (extolling the virtues of places that could be visited via the British transport system – mostly by rail), and "industrial films" (as they were called) promoting the progress of Britain's railway network.Unfortunately, their excellent work ended in 1981, but remains a treasure trough of information of railroading in the "good old days".
Today´s feature is a film on York Station.
A more recent (filmed and uploaded yesterday!) video shows ex Southern Railway Merchant Navy class "British India" line, a Oliver Bulleid Pacific, which was rebuilt in the 1950s and thus lost her shrewd shroud which earned the Bulleid Pacifics the handle "Spam Cans", pulling a train up north in the Yorkshire Dales, far away from her original turf!
Enjoy!
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please.
TF Sorry to hear about Ron passing.
Work Front Work was sloooooow. Had only 1 customer today and she did not buy. But she had nice sand domes so it was not a total waste of time. I like Sand Domes.
Sparkie The Chicken Dog. Thanks for for his well wishes. He will eat his dry food if it has chicken broth on it but won't touch his canned food that he use to love. Give hin rosted chicken, well he eats it like a great white shark. Even with his pain killer in him tonight when I got home he was alert when I sat next to him.
Later, none smoking Ken
I hate Rust
CNCharlieThere was a major plug of mud and decayed foliage. It is now on more secure and hopefully will stop some of the water that was going in the laundry room window well. It then flowed down into the floor drain.
Deja vu all over again!
Last October we had a real downpour. Something like 5.5 inches of rain in two hours. I repaired the soaked carpet and underlayment, cleaned out the gutters and window well drain and put a plastic cover made for the window well.
Shop_floor by Edmund, on Flickr
As luck would have it, July 10 brought another cloud-burst! This time 6.36 inches of rain in less than two hours. This time I'm pulling all the underlayment up and installing waterproof plank flooring.
Making progress:
Model_lab by Edmund, on Flickr
2/3 done:
Model_lab1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Lived in this house 35 years and never had a weather-related basement soaking. Now, two in less than nine months?
Yep! Model Railroading is FUN!
Cheers, Ed
Good Evening,
Ken, great news about Sparkie!
TF, sorry to hear about your friend Ron.
I've been re-reading a book I bought a month ago. It is called Speed Graphics and Steam 1958. Great photos and narrative of steam in southern Ontario. It is Ian Wilson's latest publication.
Nothing much new here. I finally fixed a downspout that had been overflowing. I tried using a hose but got serious and took it off and apart. There was a major plug of mud and decayed foliage. It is now on more secure and hopefully will stop some of the water that was going in the laundry room window well. It then flowed down into the floor drain. An exciting life I lead. Next up is a leak in the garage roof. It is a flat tar and gravel roof. It won't be hard to do, just need to do it. The roof is the original, so it is 59 years old. I'm sure the resident squirrel will appreciate it as some of his pine cone stash is getting wet. Mind you he does move things around so perhaps he has done so this time. Once he had built an elaborate nest on one shelf in the lockers and then moved it all to a lower shelf the next year. Basil is one busy fellow.
Ulrich, I'm enjoying the videos of UK railways.
Time for tea and tellie,
CN Charlie
SeeYou190 Well, I made it to Nashville. . Two weeks working with application engineering and a new national account... then to the Atlanta train show. . -Kevin .
Well, I made it to Nashville.
Two weeks working with application engineering and a new national account... then to the Atlanta train show.
Kevin ...... Nashville is a about a 100 miles from here. Mostly via I-24.
I am very thankful to have friends sending condolences to me. It's like a breath of fresh air from people I never met face-to-face.
I like this Forum and the members here. I will continue to be here.
Thanks guys. It was not easy saying goodbye to my friend Ron. I only knew him for two, three years. My railroad club members knew him a lot longer.
Ron was such a very good man. All he ever had to say about anyone was good or he didn't say anything at all.
During the two, three years I knew Ron, He was the nicest person I would ever wish to meet.
Thanks for thinking of me and my friend.
Anyone loved never goes away!
A person like Ron occupies the door he just went through. I'll see him there when it's my time
John
TF - Sorry to hear of Rons passing. Belated Happy Birthday to Judy.
Ken - Good to hear Sparkie is having a better time of it.
Not much to report here though I have driven by a few times without stopping.
Ciao, J.R.
TF: Sorry to hear of Ron's passing, as you say he is at peace now.
Good Afternoon, Crew!
TF...My condolences on losing your close friend Ron. Such friends become part of your life and the pain of their passing are the breaking of the bonds that have kept you together for so long.
Ken...Good news about Sparkle the Wonder Dog! Let's see how he does with his meds and keep us posted.
I have two pre-op appointments at the VA Hospital in Cleveland. The one for tomorrow is to have my teeth checked for infectious bacteria that could cause problems with the new hip install. The appointment on Friday is to meet with an orthopedic specialist. I'm pushing to have the surgery done locally, but I expect some push-back on that. Maybe some bench time later on. Have a good one, everybody!
Russ
Modeling the early '50s Erie in Paterson, NJ. Here's the link to my railroad postcard collection: https://railroadpostcards.blogspot.com/
Found this shot of our friendly "Bear" in action. Not too many good AMEs left anymore, but Bear is as devoted as ever!
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Just coffee this morning.
Great morning for walking. Saw the blue heron again.
Also a nice day weatherwise -- too bad I have to ruin the day because the lawn needs mowing. The day is coming when, like Kevin, I'm going to break down and pay someone else to cut it.
I have two neighbors who love yardwork. Maybe they will pay me if I let them work on my lawn.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Flo, strong coffee, please! I did not get any sleep last night and now I am absolutely bushed!
TF - I am sorry to hear about Ron´s passing.
Today, we will vist the Isle of Man.
The Isle of Man, often referred to simply as Mann, is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann and is represented by a lieutenant governor. Defence is the responsibility of the United Kingdom.
The Isle of Man is a railfan´s paradise! Firts of all, there is the Isle of Man Railway, a 3 ft. NG line connecting the capital Douglas and Port Erin. The railway sports rather odd but unique looking 2-4-0 tank engines. built by Beyer Peacock in the 1880s.
But there is a lot more to see!
The Manx Electric Railway is an electric interurban tramway connecting Douglas, Laxey and Ramsey. It connects with the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway at its southern terminus at Derby Castle at the northern end of the promenade in Douglas, and with the Snaefell Mountain Railway at Laxey. The line is undulating and passes through areas of scenic beauty. Many visitors take an excursion on the trams.
Good evening ..
TF ...... Sincere condolences regarding you loss of your friend, Ron..... Also, Happy Birthday to Judy.
Ken .... I hope things continue to improve for Sparkie.
Hey TF,
I'm sorry to hear about Ron's passing. Obviously he was a great friend to you and you will certainly miss him. It sounds like he was able to offer you a great deal of advice and support, so think of him every time you put his knowledge to use. He will be well remembered.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
I'm saddened to hear of Ron's passing, TF.
Track fiddlerI will always remember my last times with him. His own happy self. Ron will be missed and always remembered.
Yes, keep his memory with you at all times. I too have fond memories of the times I've spent with now departed dear friends.
Best wishes to good wife, Judy.
York1Just curious -- do you have St. Augustine grass?
We had St Augustine grass when we bought the house, it was a beautiful lawn.
Then we had a terrible drought somewhere in the early 2000s. It was actually illegal (fines possible) to have a green lawn. All watering was banned for several months.
Every lawn in Cape Coral died.
A few houses on my road have been resodded, but not many. I will not do it until the properties on either side of me start taking lawn care seriously.
Now I, like almost everyone in Cape Coral, have a mixture of wild grass and weeds.
It looks OK in the Summer when mowed. It looks like hell in the Winter time.