Water under the house!!!

Rhamlin

So the Orkin guy was here while iwas in the boat doing his yearly inspection. We've always had a problem with water getting under our family room. It's enclosed but its dirt bottom. Now it looks like mold is starting to form on the wood of the floor. I know I'm going to have to get a dehumidifier and spray it down with bleach to kill the mold. But I've no idea where the water comes from. Any ideas on how to stop water from coming in ? I'm going to get some hoses to attach to the gutter down spouts to divert that water away from the house.

Stsepas

Have you considered a French drain?

Amos Umwhat

raisindot

Rhamlin

I dug a trench once and put some of that irrigation piping in and covered it with rocks then put die back over it. It worked for a long while. My neighbor says I used the wrong type rock (crushed rock) he said round is better because the sharp corners mesh together after a while and fills in with dirt. So I'll be digging that up and redoing it.

clearlysuspect

bwcarter54

Had the same problem. I installed a sump pump under the house in a sump well made from a 5 gallon bucket. The pump has a float on it to turn it off and on. Water was coming up from the ground after a rain. The pump keeps the water out and no more problem.

Dark Roast

bwcarter54:

Had the same problem. I installed a sump pump under the house in a sump well made from a 5 gallon bucket. The pump has a float on it to turn it off and on. Water was coming up from the ground after a rain. The pump keeps the water out and no more problem.

Seems like the simplest and least expensive idea. My parents had this problem in their basement. They used towels to sop up. Got tired of doing that and had a 1ft wide by 1ft deep ditch dug next to foundation on the inside of basement. It was the unfinished part. Never had a flooding problem after that.

Rhamlin

bwcarter54:

Had the same problem. I installed a sump pump under the house in a sump well made from a 5 gallon bucket. The pump has a float on it to turn it off and on. Water was coming up from the ground after a rain. The pump keeps the water out and no more problem.

Did you angle the dirt floor so all the water would run to the pump? Our water is scattered all over the place in puddles.