After thinking we made it through unscathed thelast two weeks, sometime in the last 24-48 hours, I discovered an hour ago just before bed, that the concrete crawl space on our basement of our house has 2 inches of standing water. The crawlspace is about 4 ft high so one can walk all around in there hunched over, but covers about 500+sq ft.
Luckily anything thats in there is more or less just junk, and anything of value was luckily stored on the shelves we have there. Luckily, since we have a split, it is only 2 inches and didn't get much higher, which would have flooded the entire basement, not just that half.
Not sure if sewer backup (the sewer line is in there, but the top is still on it...there's another pipe in there too, not sure what it is....but the water doesn't look or smell like its bad) or groundwater coming up from under possibly, but the bigger concern is getting that standing water out, then figuring it out where it came from all of a sudden. It happened since Friday night (last checked on it 8pm).
Obviously, all sump pumps and heavy duty wet dry shop vacs are sold out in calgary (a safe assumption, a check on Canadian Tire's website confirmed this), so if someone has a heavy duty solution for me to get the water out, and can lend it to me for a day or so, that would be appreciated. I can come pick it up at the earliest possible time tomorrow.
Please le me know ASAP, as I'll be up at the crack of dawn trying to sort all this out.
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