My basement has always had major flooding problems due to a design flaw, the lack of a floor drain, and a sump pump that wasn't low enough to automatically pump unless there was a lot water. As a birthday and Christmas present my mother had plumbers come to rework the basement so I could store my canned food there. My grandma and uncle bought me the shelves to complete the project.
This is the sump pump. They had to jackhammer down through rock to get it lower. It's now in a drywall bucket encased in cement. You can kind of see where they took a cement saw and made channels from the other two corners of the basement so the water would flow to the pump. The floor has to incline whatsoever, so any water on the other side of the floor would always just stand there and make the basement moldy. The plumbers also hooked the pump up to the waste water line so the water in the basement will now go out with the water from my washing machine.
The finishing touch will be replacing the window. The glass falls out to the touch and the other side is just a board. The hole in the board is where the hose from the sump pump used to go outside; pumping water right back where it was entering the basement to begin with.
I spent several hours on Christmas Day organizing all of the jars, finally getting them out of the office floor and kitchen cabinets. Yay for cabinet space!
3 comments:
Now you can stock up for the zombie apocalypse! Seriously though, I bet it's great to finally have all that space fully functional. Happy canning!
That's great! It sure was nice of your family to pitch in and help like that. The shelves look really nice, and a dry basement will be a real plus. I don't have any basement, wet or dry, so when my laundry room gets full, I have to store jars of food under the beds!
Congrats on the pump! Growing up, my parents basement flooded every spring and it was a true pain in the rear.... As soon as spring was on it way all us kids were enlisted to move all the boxes into the family room until the flooding threat was gone. No fun at all!
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