My mom's basement has leaked for the 31 years I've been alive. This weekend, back in the DC metro-area, we were hoping to fix the problem once and for all.
After many iterations of engineering fixes, grading the house, sump pump upgrades, system failures, and wringing out basement rugs, most everything stays dry, but her workroom (See the pegboard?) has been leaking - three feet underground - from the back corner of the storage space.
The downspout closet to where the basement is leaking accepts about 1/3 of the water that falls on the house, because of how the roof is set up. A lot of water. So we dug underground, thinking the drainage piping was cracked.
The pipes underground seemed totally fine. No cracking. No water. But when we put two hoses full-blast in the gutter, we noticed that a little bit of water was ricocheting off the squared bottom of the black connecting piece and then overflowing. The water was running down the side of the house. If it were a lot of rain, perhaps the amount of water ricocheting was pretty dramatic?
We're not positive that that is the problem, but we're hopeful. Fingers crossed! We fixed it with some aluminum sheeting.
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Hooray! I will do my rain dance so we can find out if it worked! Thx Rob. xo
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