Help! Leak from Neighbors House
My in-laws have a leak in their basement that is coming from a neighbors home. They live in an attached house and the water is seeping under the floorboards in their basement from next door. It started before the rain today and continues after we shut off the water to the house. To make matters…
My in-laws have a leak in their basement that is coming from a neighbors home. They live in an attached house and the water is seeping under the floorboards in their basement from next door. It started before the rain today and continues after we shut off the water to the house. To make matters worse the neighbor is paranoid and not mentally well. She doesn’t answer her door or phone and hasn’t responded to any of our attempts to contact her. Does anyone have any experience with this or any knowledge that could help us out at all? My poor father in law has to pump out water every couple of hours to stop his basement from completely flooding. We’ve tried DEP and 311 to no avail.
Suppose that something happened to your neighbor? That is a possibility. If I were you, I would try again to make contact with her and if no success, I would operate on the assumption that something happened to her, call 911 and say you have an uncontrolled water flow and fear that something happened to your neighbor. They will dispatch fire department and police if they think necessary.
My neighbor had a broken pipe during the Christmas holidays last year when neighbors and tenants were all away for the holidays. The water found its way into my basement forming a lake and I couldn’t do anything. I called 911 and they dispatched the fire department, which broke one of the doors of the neighbors and turned off the water.
Suppose that something happened to your neighbor? That is a possibility. If I were you, I would try again to make contact with her and if no success, I would operate on the assumption that something happened to her, call 911 and say you have an uncontrolled water flow and fear that something happened to your neighbor. They will dispatch fire department and police if they think necessary.
My neighbor had a broken pipe during the Christmas holidays last year when neighbors and tenants were all away for the holidays. The water found its way into my basement forming a lake and I couldn’t do anything. I called 911 and they dispatched the fire department, which broke one of the doors of the neighbors and turned off the water.
Is it possible that something has happened to the neighbor? I’d call the fire department asap.
Try your local fire department. Don’t call 911, call the firehouse directly. Isn’t there a reasonable concern it could hit the electrical box?
The flooding is rain water from storms, right? I had a similar problem, which I think is caused from a combination of poor rear yard drainage from a next door neighbor (they have a lot of marsh-type plants growing in their back yard) and, perhaps, a crack in the upper portion of a sewer main from one of my uphill neighbors. Whenever it rained hard I would get flooding in the basement of my corner property. I talked to each of the neightbors but no one would do anything so I put a french drain leading to a sump pump on the interior of my basement. It’s working well except for during and after particularly lengthy spring rains.