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Water Basement Problem

03/28/2012 12:00 PM

Basement is finished I have a 12x12 ceramic tiles and 1/8 of 1nch of grout, I also have a sump pump about 30" below from the top of the floor. Right now the sump pump is dry, the room is about 15'x25' and the sump pump is in the corner of the room on the long dimention, and on the other side of the room same side of that corner I get mosture on the grout and little drops of water, the mosture and dropltes is about 3 or 4 feet from the walls, I do not understand how is posssible.

please if some one has experiance with this need some advice on wath to do.

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Vincenzo DeGregorio

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03/28/2012 12:12 PM

Er, is it not condensation from the air dropping out at a cold spot?

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03/28/2012 12:41 PM

He probably inadvertently trapped a dew drop fairy in his basement.

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03/28/2012 12:46 PM

Where is the upstairs bathroom, or the kitchen, in relation to these little drops of (we can only hope it is) water?

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03/28/2012 12:50 PM

I'm not sure about the wisdom of installing ceramic tiles in a basement that requires a sump pump, but we can save that for your next thread.

Yep, condensation.................or possible that the vapor barrier has been compromised and water is wicking up from below.

At this point about all you can do, that I can think of, is to install a dehumidifier by where the moisture is. Rather than emptying a tub of water every day, I would slightly elevate it, and run a small diameter hose from the outlet, along the base of the wall, and into the sump hole.

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03/28/2012 1:14 PM

Yep,

That's what I have to do in the house in Minnesota.

We actually had standing water in ours.

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03/29/2012 8:54 AM

Well Standing is better that laying, I hate that lazy water, always laying down on the job.

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03/28/2012 1:49 PM

AAWWW, ain't he cute? The doorbell scared 'im....aawwww

OR it could of been this.....

....THE ANTI-CRIDOG!!!....

WTF,,, I run into this in a dark basement, I might piss on the floor myself....LOL

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03/28/2012 3:28 PM

The possibility of a small animal peeing on the floor is on topic.....

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03/29/2012 8:36 AM

OMG, La Chupacabra!!!!

(The "Goat sucker"....)

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03/28/2012 8:31 PM

nornally, there is a grove cut around the paremeter tof the wall that directs water to the sump. i suspect it was filled it with grout.

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03/29/2012 8:57 AM

Apple, Cherry or Peach Grove?

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03/29/2012 9:59 AM

actually a Crabapple grove........

knuk knuk knuk

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03/29/2012 8:38 AM

Buy a decent dehumidifier and run its discharge hose to the sump pump pit.....

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03/29/2012 8:46 AM

Aw that's too easy of an answer. I suggest that the whole house, including basement foundation, should get transported to the arid climate of the Gobi desert. There will be no condensation now.

Bwahahaha!

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03/29/2012 8:55 AM

All right!

An indoor pool, lets go swimmin now, everybodys learnin how,..............

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03/30/2012 11:27 AM

Get an attractive throw rug, and put a heating pad beneath it.

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