Thanks everyone. Sometimes it takes someone else to say it. It will hard for him to mount a defense against 3 people with varying degrees of experience with soils all coming from the same direction.Hopefully the house doesn`t become a boat.
Beej67,
The question is..... is removing the sump system problematic to the point of compromising the foundation? Other than creating/suggesting some elaborate trench drain system,which is cost prohibitive,I`m looking for an alternative. If one is not to be found than the option of removing what...
My friend has a water issue in his basement.He believes that the solution is to remove his sump and patch over the existing window wells (set at grade,corrugated aluminum semi-circle with a 1.5" pipe feeding the crock through the wall).He doesn`t believe me when I tell him that this will/could...
