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It's only going to get colder the more north you go

 

Thx Captain Obvious!

 

My thoughts exactly

 

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This weather is crazy! I've been going to Pismo for Thanksgiving for the last 12 years and this is the coldest it has ever been!

 

30 cold haha you Cali guys are spoiled!! I played football in 18 degrees yesterday morning.

 

nice same thing happends to me if it rains for more then 6hrs.. just dryloked every wall a few weeks ago in prep for winter.. Holding good so far, and we have the same mats in our basement

 

how much did the drylock run you? Those mats are so nice! I have a whole area matted for working out and as you can see in my pic, there are about 20 boxes of financial papers that those mats saved.

 

most basement leaks are caused by poor water management systems...check your gutters and down spots. and drain them away from the home if possible

 

Got 2 5 gal buckets of the xtreme stuff, was about $105 a bucket at lowes it was just enough to 2 decent coats on all 4 walls. we have the whole basement done with the mats, we got them years ago when you could buy a 30 pack for $10.. haha They have saved me time and time again.

 

yeah it just kind of dawned on me that right where I have the leak, there is an underground pvc pipe that the downspout drains in to. I am on a hill and think that with all the shifting of the hill side, maybe the pip cracked so it is just leaking in to the wall. Plus there is a nice overhang from the roof and porch next to the area so the ground stay bone dry there.

 

that is crazy close to that pole!

 

Gutters, drains and down spouts are good. Old house not so good, the way the house sits on a hill the basement is underground for half of it, all the ground moisture builds up and runs directly at the house starts seeping in the cracks in the wall and floor . Would be too costly to have it fixed properly, ill be moving out in a year or so.


We cemented every crack we could locate and then dryloked it all, so far we have had some serious storms come through and not a drop of water.

 

Yeah We just got a quote to have the foundation lifted and sealed... $10k

 

Yeah, I cant afford that, haha.. I dumped about $250-300 in drylock, cement patches, and few other things, it was the cheaper way out.

 

oh....crap.... you caught me sleeping.

 

I got mine this morning. Half an hour to install.