The advert.s for a book on the flooding here in SE MN a year ago show my house (the big red thing–house on left–ballroom/shop attached on right).
Proceeds from book sales go to help those the flood left in need.
Feeling like a posterchild,
Brian
The advert.s for a book on the flooding here in SE MN a year ago show my house (the big red thing–house on left–ballroom/shop attached on right).
Proceeds from book sales go to help those the flood left in need.
Feeling like a posterchild,
Brian
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what does one say?
The word 'Congratualtions' seems just so wrong!
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Yeah. It is a odious honor really.Saw the ad in the paper... whoa!
B,
Did you have a lot of damage? Can you post a link?
Chuck S
Chuck,It was a big mess mostly, some foundation damage. Missed a month of work or so and need to miss another month to button things back up.One annoying outcome is the block wall foundation now has leaks all over the place--mortar blew in at joints all around--wierd. Have sink holes now all around the perimeter of the house funneling water in with each new rain. Only had minor leaks on an occasional basis before.Try this link:http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=93730.1Have a good day,Brian
How are you going to repair the blown out mortar? I have a similar problem in one corner of my basement. Not from a flood but probably prolonged exposure to acid rain.Do we need to dig out all the way down and repoint, or is there a way to work from the inside? Our foundation walls are rock, not block.
Bryan,It presents a dilemma, I can repoint from the inside, but the outside breaches in the mortar, if not attended to, allow the hollow blocks to fill with water... eventually causing failure of other mortar joints on the inside. It also leaves the strength of the foundation undermined.The proper fix is to excavate the entire perimeter, and repoint both sides, put in new foundation drains, etc.Best practice, in my case, would be to support the house (or work in small sections) and pull the top two courses of block, add rebar and fill the cores.Don't know how far to go with this. PITA.Brian
You did have a long conversation with your higher power after surviving that didn't YOU!!!
No kidding!The aerial photo in the first post reveals a problem, not apparent on the ground. The "big bend" in Garvin Brook is too sharp a turn for the water, so it both scours out the outside of the turn (if my house were on that bank it would be gone)... but it also backs up water and it takes a new shorter, straighter course (the tree-filled overflow water course running in a diagonal in the upper left of the photo, behind my house).Eventually, nature wants Garvin Brook to be in my back yard, and the "big bend" would be an "ox bow lake."I have only now, after seeing that photo in the first post, realized that I live on an island.Have a good day,Brian
I'm thinkin' you gotta hook up a low head water turbine in that creek.