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Chris G:
Our's was a fairly unique situation, so probably not relevant to yours, but here goes...  The neighbor's house was at a higher elevation than ours.  When their line broke, the water ran down to our foundation and pooled up behind it.  Turns out there was a hair-line fracture in our foundation which the water, of course, found.  In less than 24 hours, the trickle managed to flood over an inch of water all throughout 1200 sq ft of basement.  We had to have a company come in to drill holes up and down the crack and pressure-inject a sealant to plug it up.  Fortunately our home-owner's insurance covered everything (including new carpet!).

lordtodd75:
The only way to save the carpeting is to tear it up gingerly and remove the padding. The carpet itself will dry in a few days using a couple of fans, but once the padding is wet there is really no saving it. Make sure you spray everywhere with an anti microbial and then just replace the padding. If your lucky you can do all of this without damaging the carpet.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: JackTucky on April 18, 2007, 09:14:14 pm ---If your walls got wet at all, get dehumidifiers in there, and maybe even stick blowers into the walls.  Drywall and insulation sucks up water.

--- End quote ---


This is a veeeeeeeeeeery important point.  Do everything you can to prevent mold in the walls.  Homeowner's insurance often does not cover mold and it can destroy your home in a hurry, not to mention the health of the people living in it in very insidious ways.

mpm32:
I have a slight water seepage problem in my basement.  I had black and white vinyl stick down tiles down there.  When the water would seep, you'd step on the tiles and it would come out between the joints.  I kept my mame cabinet up on blocks in case of a flood.

I took all the tile up. Cleaned, etched and sealed the concrete floor.

I then put these on the gutters;

http://www.rainguardusa.com/index.php?osCsid=9f413ce8cb2255345477be590e61f6fa

These keep the rainwater away from the foundation, the further the better.

And I installed this;

http://www.greatmats.com/products/carpetflex-tile.html

The carpet tile has standoffs on the bottom of it that keeps it off of the floor.  It snaps together so if it did ever get wet, I could just pull up a section and bring it outside to dry.

I live in the northeast so this past week has been a real test with the 8" of rain that we got.  I lifted up the corner where we usually got water and there was nothing, not a drop.

ChadTower:

I tried those rain guard USA things... they didn't last one MA winter before becoming so brittle the thing wouldn't roll open anymore.

Then I installed these and they have performed flawlessly.


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