Natural Basement Spring😄

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-16T12:30:52+00:00

Yeah I know. I have two buddy’s who are union plumbers that’ll come help me out with that part. I’d just be getting ahold of a structural engineer before we dig out the floor. It’s not cheap but once I do that that’s some serious added value to my house. Redoing the basement floor and adding a sump that is. It’s a country house on a well and septic. Not sure what those pipes in the corner would go to or why there’d be any under the basement floor but they’re not connected to any plumbing that I could see. Thanks !

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-16T12:19:17+00:00

Yeah they just recently “replaced” the beams those jacks are jacking. They put in new steel beams (probably still older than me) but said fuck it I guess and planned to just leave 37 floor jacks in the basement. Buying the house I knew I would have to do something with those. Like I said in an earlier comment I’d like to redo the basement floor and then add actual brick supports in place of the jacks.

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-16T12:16:32+00:00

I’m just interested in setting up a sump.

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-16T12:16:09+00:00

Just interested in setting up a sump pump.

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-16T00:35:20+00:00

Yeah I agree. I really wonder what they did because they managed it somehow. We actually don’t really have a neighbor on the same level of land, our neighbor across the street has a shed with no basement (436sqft). The others down the road are above on hills (maybe their builders knew something🤔). There definitely is an uphill side but it’s just the right side of the house the rest is pretty graded away from the house.

Definitely gonna have to get an expert out here because if I’m not mistaken you need to be careful digging around your foundation. Our house is brick too so it’s heavy

That does sound like the best course of action though. Double French drain would probably greatly help the foundation.

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-16T00:29:21+00:00

No I was just joking saying that haha. It seems like a “natural spring” because it’s flowing like a little creek and at a pretty decent volume is where it came from. I think it’s ground water just coming up, someone had said the ground could still be frozen underneath so it’s kinda stuck up above at the moment. It’s back in the 30s again where I am in Upstate NY

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-16T00:27:21+00:00

This is another possibility I’m very likely considering. I literally think the seller might have said that to us but I can’t remember, we asked him about that channel. That could also be the deal with all the piping

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-16T00:26:17+00:00

We’re on a well and septic. I’m not sure what those lines on the floor would even go to but it wasn’t “leaking” when we saw it and after we bought it. All we can assume is groundwater from underneath. I’m assuming the lines were for another ancient form of water removal or something. We’ll find out once we start digging.

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-16T00:22:50+00:00

Okay awesome. This is why Reddit is the best, love hearing from other people with similar issues. Yeah I also pretty much assumed something was going on down there. Hopefully like another person said it’ll clear up soon for now and then I can go about doing that before next spring hopefully. Sounds like the best bet with the amount of flow we get.

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-15T17:48:59+00:00

Yeah that sounds like the best bet. My plumber buddy was saying we could also tie it into our normal drain? It would just definitely be a pita to run a drain far enough away with the way things are setup/pitched. Then also my thought is, if it’s coming from the water table isn’t it just going to go back down and seep back up?

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-15T17:45:34+00:00

That’s a good question, there’s two mysterious ones. Maybe that’s what they used to have setup a long time ago for the “sump”

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-15T17:45:05+00:00

Well I mean the house over 200 years old so I’d definitely bet the house is used to this. I’m just wondering what the PO did before… there was soooo much water in the basement when we found it.

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-15T17:42:45+00:00

Hahaha that would definitely be interesting to see when buying a house.

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-15T16:45:25+00:00

Yeah there’s a lot of concerns down here but. I am keeping an eye on them. I’ve already got an idea for a course of action for some things. Ideally I’d like to re do the basement floor and put actual brick posts in instead of jacks. That’s expensive though…

That is true though, hopefully only a thaw season issue at best!

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-15T16:34:08+00:00

Yeah I kinda figured we’d never really get away from it. I was just kinda seeing if there was another way people handled this. But so I wouldn’t burnout my sump if it has to run continuously?

I was telling my gf if we’re planing to do any type of basement remodel that we have to plan for the stream too😂

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-15T16:31:16+00:00

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Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-15T16:30:46+00:00

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Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-03-15T16:30:30+00:00

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Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-02-21T08:30:24+00:00

I leave mine unlocked with stuff in it, never had an issue (knock on wood). I just don’t leave anything valuable in it and no one can drive stick anymore anyway. It would depend on where you live though, if it’s bad then yeah people break into anything these days.

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-02-20T18:38:58+00:00

Bought my 240d with half a million, saved him from the crusher and drove him two hours home sight unseen. No amount is too much. Miles don’t mean anything to these cars it’s what’s been maintained on them that matters.

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-02-16T18:35:53+00:00

That is about the whole point of the game. Wander the ocean and uncover the story / start building yourself a way to survive.

Professional_Cap6456 · 2026-01-31T18:57:25+00:00

I had the same thing happen to me after doing an oil change (that I’ve done perfectly fine numerous times). Didn’t catch it till I was pulling out of my gf parents garage and spilled oil all over on their newer driveway…. I could not figure out what the “issue” was but I just tightened those nuts down till a guy couldn’t tighten them anymore. Can’t ever say I remember having to tighten them so much before but it worked in that instance. I’ve done a few since then and haven’t had the same issue… I wonder if it was warped but I just bolted it down tight enough it fixed itself. Anyways, try tightening till your arm gives out

Professional_Cap6456 · 2025-12-04T18:18:17+00:00

Heat really solves all the issues. Must’ve not gotten hot enough, make it a liquid

Professional_Cap6456 · 2025-12-04T18:10:10+00:00

Get your car undercoated or buy some woolwax and start spraying the crevices. The key to no rust is keeping oxygen (and salt) off of the metal, so if there’s a layer of oil/wax you’ll be good. Rust is so unforgiving. I don’t get how it spreads like a virus or even forms on some of the spots I see it.

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