Re: OT: dry a basement on the cheap???

Posted by J.C.in Az. on July 25, 2009 at 13:56:05 from (65.55.67.225):

In Reply to: Re: OT: dry a basement on the cheap??? posted by dave2 on July 25, 2009 at 08:34:32:

I don't know.My suspician is :{{Heat}}: I don't recall any problems with our Root Cellar except in the summer time and not much was stored in it at that time. We always stored Milk etc in the summer time in the Spring House down near the base of one of the hills by the creek. We lived in Taylor County Ky. out in the hills and things were done then much the same as my Anscestors did who came to Ky from Pendleton County W.Va. around 1805.Our Meat was stored in the Smoke House and Milk etc was stored in warm months in the Spring House. In the cold months the Root Cellar was used as I described. You have to find a solution to the excess water problem. Apparently the Drain is not enough which means maybe a lined Pit 24"X 24" to create a Sump with solid bottom in it and a small Sump Pump in the bottom of the pit to remove the water as it drains into the sump.What I described will drain well but that much water must be got rid of. Do you have a spring in the basement? I saw Pictures of your barns etc elsewhere on YT and they appear to have a long history with your property,what was the old timers solution or didn't they have one? A Picture of our part of Kentucky is attached.

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