Oh I’m sure it won’t work.
Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
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The house is standing a little too straight and level.
Considering the amount of building in the GTA I wonder why there isn't more local knowledge on drainage and radon issues. I ran radon tests on my place and we were fine, well under WHO recommendations.
Are there any geological studies for specific areas in Mississauga?
Are there any geological studies for specific areas in Mississauga?
I tried to find such maps. Apparently it is far too site specific. Neighbours could have wildly different results. Almost anywhere in Ontario can have a problem. I plan on staying in this house for a long time so I ran a one year test the first year we had it. We are fine.
My house has a sump. It was installed by one of the previous owners somewhat haphazardly. It's a non standard hole in the basement foundation and it drains into my laundry tub. It seems to does the job so I'm glad it's there but I'm having a heck of a time trying to size a basin for it. I may just end up using a bucket and cutting the bottom out from it.
My neighbour told me the house used to have issues with water infiltration so one of the previous owners installed a French drain and the sump and it solved the water issues.
I'm surprised more houses in town don't have sump pumps as Orangeville is built on a swamp.
My neighbour told me the house used to have issues with water infiltration so one of the previous owners installed a French drain and the sump and it solved the water issues.
I'm surprised more houses in town don't have sump pumps as Orangeville is built on a swamp.
There are. Typically when they do monitoring wells around an area they take soil samples. I’ll have to check with work to see if there are any for the area.
Fun….toilet just started leaking from the bottom and the it backed up into the shower when flushed….fun fun fun…
Didnt you snake that drain? Leak plus backup both point to drain not clear.
I snaked from the washout in the basement out. Not from the toilets as dad said that snake could damage the toilet. I’ll snake the toilet line tomorrow when I take it off.
For now I just turned off the water on the basement toilet as nothing appears to be happening when I flush the upstairs one.
Will pick up a few wax rings in the morning and replace both upstairs and downstairs.
sburns
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You've got quite the mystery going on there.....
why would it back up into the shower though....
Probably because it’s a Kevin thing….who knows. Could be a clog just beyond the shower and it just comes back to the first place it can.
Mad Mike
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A sump is needless if you have weepers around the house - unless the weeping connection has totally failed.
I'm guessing your house is 50ish, back then it was common connect weepers to the sanitary sewer lines.
If that sewer line you just uncorked it flowing well, you could connect an o-pipe to that, no pump as gravity does the work.
I knew that would happen! I keep telling my wife that exact thing will happen if I clean up our garage.
Kevin did have a leak years ago in the laundry that he ‘fixed’ with an internal weeper only within the laundry…
You can also see where he dug and reported the concrete…
You can also see where he dug and reported the concrete…
Had an insurance inspector come in and see an effluence under our carpet, and report back that it was mould.
We ended up getting our insurance cancelled for two years over it. You can't remove mould that doesn't exist.
sburns
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Feels like we are playing a murder mystery, we know who "Kevin", but not the how.
On the upside, low quality work done makes it easier to figure out how. If he had done that patch properly and then painted it, MP would have trouble figuring out where kevin had messed with things.
Replaced wax ring and ran the snake through the bottom lines…
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