Windows - 11:37, Sunday 13 July 2008 |
| When we moved into this house, the previous owners said that one day when there was heavy rain they'd had a leak from a basement window after the window well filled up; the window is roughly at ground level, so the builder put a well around it that sticks up a few inches above the ground to keep surface water away. Problem is that being cheap, all the builder did inside the well was leave the dirt level with the windowsill and throw a bit of gravel on top. From what I've been able to find out, there's supposed to be a six inch gap below the window, and then at least six inches of gravel below that, preferably with a drain tube at the bottom going down to the drains around the basement. So I've spent most of the afternoon digging out the dirt and throwing a couple of hundred kilos of gravel into the hole; we still don't have a proper drain from the well, but we don't often get really heavy rain here and water sprayed on top vanishes into the gravel and will eventually drain away from the bottom through the soil. I figure that if we get a foot of water in the window well, we'll probably have worse things to worry about! Of course this does mean that in a while I have to do the one on the other side of the house too... |
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