Squamch
WKR
Well, dad called me on Wednesday. "There's a soft spot in the floor by my gunroom, could you come up and have a look, see if you can fix it?"
"Sure, I'll come up Saturday morning." Hmmm....maybe I'll be able to take my rifle for a walk that afternoon/evening on the way home.
Well...I'm probably not going to be hunting in September.
The sump pump failed last winter, and water poured in. A plumber came and "fixed" it. Dad shop vac'd the water up, and said it was no biggie, baseboards didn't swell, laminate flooring in the gun room was fine.
Well yeah, because the water poured into the sunken section of the pad, that had the gun room floor built over it. The exploratory hole got pretty big, pretty quick.
The soft/sunken spot.
The exploratory hole
Bad words were being said by this point.
He has to empty the gun room this week, then we go to the other side of the wall and rip all that floor out next Saturday. At least I'll have my sister's help next week. She's also a tradie, and isn't a crippled 66 year old man like dad, so that will help.
That black pipe? Conduit for the security system. Brimming with water.
I pulled the old pump (dead, definitely not fixed), flushed the line (clogged with rocks and dirt from creek it drains into, from the flood last winter), cleaned put the cistern (gotta do all the drain lines leading to it next week with the pressure washer), and replaced the sump pump.
Power lines for the pump were a bitch. See the angle the "conduit" leaves the cistern at? See where it comes up out of the concrete to the siding? Neat. Thanks guys!
"Sure, I'll come up Saturday morning." Hmmm....maybe I'll be able to take my rifle for a walk that afternoon/evening on the way home.
Well...I'm probably not going to be hunting in September.
The sump pump failed last winter, and water poured in. A plumber came and "fixed" it. Dad shop vac'd the water up, and said it was no biggie, baseboards didn't swell, laminate flooring in the gun room was fine.
Well yeah, because the water poured into the sunken section of the pad, that had the gun room floor built over it. The exploratory hole got pretty big, pretty quick.
The soft/sunken spot.
The exploratory hole
Bad words were being said by this point.
He has to empty the gun room this week, then we go to the other side of the wall and rip all that floor out next Saturday. At least I'll have my sister's help next week. She's also a tradie, and isn't a crippled 66 year old man like dad, so that will help.
That black pipe? Conduit for the security system. Brimming with water.
I pulled the old pump (dead, definitely not fixed), flushed the line (clogged with rocks and dirt from creek it drains into, from the flood last winter), cleaned put the cistern (gotta do all the drain lines leading to it next week with the pressure washer), and replaced the sump pump.
Power lines for the pump were a bitch. See the angle the "conduit" leaves the cistern at? See where it comes up out of the concrete to the siding? Neat. Thanks guys!
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