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I have a friend that bought a house in Sa Harbor, NY that was built next to a pond and on a spot with a high water table. His pool was dug last summer and they hit water at 6 feet. His basement is a full height 8′ ceiling basement. They received 18″ of snow two weeks ago and three inches of rain this past week. Needless to say his existing two sump pumps can’t keep up. I told him he had three options, 1. excavate the foundation and put in drain tiles (I don’t know if his builder put them in, not my design), 2. excavate inside the basement and chop out the floor slab at the perimeter of the foundation wall to install a drain tile system on the inside of his house connected to an oversized sump pump. 3. dig drainage treches at the perimeter of his property like when they drain wetlands to keep the water away from his foundation.
I would like to give him sonething better and something passive. If he has three sump pumps working to keep his basement dry it’s expensive electrically and a power outage during a storm could once again render his refinished basement a complete loss.
Thanks.
Edward Koenig
Carmelhill Architects
Islip, NY
www.CARMELHILL.com
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I have a friend that bought a house in Sa Harbor, NY that was built next to a pond and on a spot with a high water table. His pool was dug last summer and they hit water at 6 feet. His basement is a full height 8' ceiling basement. They received 18" of snow two weeks ago and three inches of rain this past week. Needless to say his existing two sump pumps can't keep up. I told him he had three options, 1. excavate the foundation and put in drain tiles (I don't know if his builder put them in, not my design), 2. excavate inside the basement and chop out the floor slab at the perimeter of the foundation wall to install a drain tile system on the inside of his house connected to an oversized sump pump. 3. dig drainage treches at the perimeter of his property like when they drain wetlands to keep the water away from his foundation.
I would like to give him sonething better and something passive. If he has three sump pumps working to keep his basement dry it's expensive electrically and a power outage during a storm could once again render his refinished basement a complete loss.
Thanks.
Edward Koenig
Carmelhill Architects
Islip, NY
http://www.CARMELHILL.com