Flooding in Basement

Our basement has been flooding every time it rains. It never used to happen, but when we renovated the house 2 years ago, we put in a dry well / French drain the backyard…. And now the basement floods in the back every time. Im sure we have to dig the dry well up and do it again (for the 3rd) time, but can anyone what time of contractor I should get in. Do I have a plumber or a General contractor come look? Is there a someone who specializes in this? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

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laurenpacker123 | 6 years and 6 months ago

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well I don’t think the yard is pitched away from the house unfortunately either. But it’s most just dirt/weeds at the moment with few pieces bluestone. Can anyone recommend a good GC to do the work?

yudashasom | 6 years and 6 months ago

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Do you have pavers, stone or concrete in the backyard? Is it pitched away from the building? If the yard is mostly covered with a hard surface, you need to pipe a drain or two into the waste line. No way around it. The upside down trash can is a ridiculous idea and could be dangerous.

GreenThinker | 6 years and 6 months ago

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ah, so let me get this straight. No where in your yard is a normal drain that is connected to the city sewer line, it just all goes into your drywell, by the house foundation no less, and that water is just supposed to drain into the soil. That’s just awful. A proper drywell has a overflow pipe thats connected to the city sewer. What you need is a general contractor to do some digging to run and connect a proper drain to your yard.

laurenpacker123 | 6 years and 6 months ago

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Thank you for all this helpful info! To answer a few question….. I know the gutter from the roof does go into the city sewer line, but thats it. The gutter off the back deck (on the Parlor level) has a gutter that just goes into the backyard. And our neighbor’s roof also does leak a bit into our yard because of the plastic they have thrown up there. And Ultimately the “dry well” is only a couple feet away from the house. It was totally filled up and the backyard flooded as well. It doesn’t seem clogged, but he water is just not draining. The person who did it was not a specialist at all. In fact, he used an upside down plastic garbage can with holes cut into it. I was skeptical at the time, but was assured it works just as well as the more expensive systems. So my question now still is WHO I call for this? Do I call a landscaper? A plumber? A construction contractor? all of the above? I am not a DIY person at all btw, so I appreciated the detail s of what to do, but I would still want to find a pro to do it. Any recommendations of people? Thanks again

murph | 6 years and 6 months ago

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Please check with the City if you can detach the roof downspout so the water is not going underground. They did this on new “affordable” houses in Coney Island but I could never get a straight answer from DoB. By law all water must be directed to the soil line.

The backyard should have a drain to collect runoff at the surface and feed it to the interior soil line. Is it clogged? Is it there? Water should not collect anywhere.

johnbk | 6 years and 6 months ago

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So to have a better understanding, there was no problem flooding before the install, and someone thought that installing a drywell would fix a non existent problem? Yikes, oops.

My neighbors had a similar issue. Anytime we would have a heavy rain their backyard would completely flood. What needs to be done, and what they finally did was direct the water away from the house towards the street (which what existed before they had one installed to begin with!).

Doing drywells properly is complicated, it requires the installer to know how much rain your roof will collect over a period of time, how much each well can handle, the absorbtion rate into the ground, distance from the house etc… For example if you only installed 2 drywells for your entire house, all the water from your roof flowing to those two locations would easily overwhelm and flood the drywell location in a heavy rain, leading the more flooding of the french drain, rendering the entire system ineffective etc… You also need to make sure that the well is being placed downslope from your property, not just trenched at a downward angle – if the well overflows it needs a place to go (away from you). You need to install a number of filtering systems that insure it doesn’t clog, and clean them somewhat regularly. Good luck.

murph | 6 years and 6 months ago

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Ma fote. I forgot to ask but what is the topography? Does the surrounding area slope to your foundation? Are you in a low point relative to the surrounding structures? Do your neighbors have this problem? Have you asked? What have they done? Dig a trench to your property?

Smokychimp | 6 years and 6 months ago

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“Strap and suspenders” is the approach that’s needed here. Throw everything at it. Not one system, but many. There should be a sump pump installed, clear drainage paths, regular cleaning of leaves and debris. There is unlikely to be one solution to this problem that then results in no maintenance and a completely dry site. It’s more likely to require several layers of defense as well as at least a monthly eye to maintaining it.

By the way French drains are not French. Some guy invented it, his name was Billy Ray French or something.

murph | 6 years and 6 months ago

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Before you order up some Frenchie to fly in to do this I have my experiences.

I had flooding in my cellar through the side wall when the City(my neighbor) dug up a trench some five feet from my foundation and didn’t fill it in. A subsequent winter rain came through my wall and left me with a few inches of wet. It subsequently drained through the rat coat but I lost everything directly on the floor. Anytime after that when it rained I got more water through the weakened spots.

I took it upon myself to clear away everything in front of that wall and dig out all the weak spots in the mortar. I fill them with expanding cement and and seal the rest with Theroseal. No problems after that.

After I think it was during Irene my back wall similarly leaked. Same treatment with good results. Did I say this was labor intensive(all me) but capital cheap.

My only problem then was water coming up through the floor. I wasn’t about to redo that expanse so I did an end run. I went outside and sealed all the walkway cracks near the foundation and at the base of the foun dation wall where it met the walkway but with driveway filler. It didn’t hurt that the City also repaved the roadway and I replace the front sidewalk so there would be less infiltration. Good so far. Feel free to copy.

jjnoonan | 6 years and 6 months ago

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Any contractor recs for digging and setting up a proper drainage system?

nsondheim | 6 years and 6 months ago

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You need to consider a French drain done by a reputable contractor and check his credentials.

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You need to consider a French drain done by a reputable contractor and check his credentials.

chipito | 6 years and 6 months ago

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We’ve had the same issue over the years so I put a cheap web camera down there to see the source and for us it seems to come from any crack in the floor. It doesn’t happen with every rain but happened with the last one (and I presume will happen later today). We haven’t renovated our cellar but plan to put in a dry well when we do. Hearing that it hasn’t helped you makes me worry, though!

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Could be a bunch of things. But leaves in the gutter or leader, clogged trap are most likely. It could even be for a neighboring building. Did you dig out the basement?

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Could be a partly clogged house trap or the drain itself is clogged somewhere, which isn’t allowing the water to drain quickly enough; so it flows out into the basement?

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I don’t have any recommendations for you, but interested in the responses. My basement has been dry since moving in ~1 yr ago then yesterday’s rain flooded it and I’m still having trouble finding the source — current best guess is up from the ground because the walls seem dry and sump pump pit was also full but without a clear wet path to it.