The Home Improvement Thread

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by fotze2

It’s not short term. I didn’t think about that. He needs out asap. So ####ing around figuring out.

Slap up some cubicle walls? That's gotta be cheap and easy.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Slap up some cubicle walls? That's gotta be cheap and easy.

Get creative with a tank of spray foam and some plywood forms. The basement fun foam room, with built in bed, lounger and that screwed up mound of foam over there in the corner that isn't really useful for anything but is also a bit structural.

[Hemi-Cuda]

So our basement bedroom flooded in the summer during one of those massive rainstorms, and I finally got a quote from the insurance company. The water came up from the floor in the corner of the bedroom, which leads me to believe there's some kind of issue with the foundation there, but per the adjuster the insurance will only cover fixing the actual damages, they don't do anything to remediate the cause. I am able to hire my own contractors and the insurance will pay them directly, so does anyone know of a restoration company that can actually diagnose and fix foundation issues? I don't mind paying more out of pocket than what the insurance will cover as long as the root cause is fixed and I don't have to worry about more flooding in the future

[photon]

Not sure if there's a company that could handle both (or do it well anyway) since one would be more focused on interior finishing and possibly mold remediation while the other would be on foundations.

AFAIK you can't make a basement waterproof. When this happened to me the fix was to put in a sump pump that would gather and pump away water that was under the slab before it could seep in. We sold that house not long after so can't say how effective it was long term but that's what I've been told.

They also checked other things like grading around the house (was fine in my case), downspouts that need to be extended so they don't drop water right at the foundation (I think we had some extensions added). I've heard of people needing to dig down and put more drainage under windows or weeping tile around the foundation etc..

Lots of variables like age of the house, grading, what's already there, etc.

Hopefully someone with more expertise can chime in but I would guess it'd probably be a different company you'd want to address any foundation issues.

[Fuzz]

Have the walls been pulled yet to see the foundation? I had a crack in mine that I think I successfully sealed from the inside with the Sickens kit. It would leak waterfalls in heavy rain. Not to say you need to DIY, but there might be something obvious and fixable behind the wall. An alternative fix would be excavating to the footing and repairing it externally.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

So our basement bedroom flooded in the summer during one of those massive rainstorms, and I finally got a quote from the insurance company. The water came up from the floor in the corner of the bedroom, which leads me to believe there's some kind of issue with the foundation there, but per the adjuster the insurance will only cover fixing the actual damages, they don't do anything to remediate the cause. I am able to hire my own contractors and the insurance will pay them directly, so does anyone know of a restoration company that can actually diagnose and fix foundation issues? I don't mind paying more out of pocket than what the insurance will cover as long as the root cause is fixed and I don't have to worry about more flooding in the future

What about that Doug Lacey's Basement Systems something something? I think they're called Groundworks now.