March Showers Bring April Flowers

After February's furnace catastrophe, who would believe, we had yet another house-related catastrophe. The newest bane of our existence? A flooded basement. Nay, a flooded FINISHED basement. Great.

This is clearly an exaggeration, but it's sure how we felt. The first flooding (yes, more than one instance) occurred in February. It had rained heavily for two days and just as it began to snow the water appeared. He rushed upstairs as I was lying in bed and we spent the next several hours vacuuming up the water and preventing its spread. In all, there was about an inch of water in the utility closet and bathroom (the rooms are adjacent), with little spread in the truly finished portion. We were so fortunate His Mom had a wet/dry vac, otherwise we don't know what we would have done...though we would find out soon enough.

After some thought and examination, we determined the water was ground water that was unable to filter down because of a frozen watertable and the saturation issues from the heavy rain. I immediately began calling local "dry basement" companies to get a sump pump installed. Since our area had been experiencing mild flooding, we only had two agencies come out to quote us, one of which never called back. Boo! We ended up contracting with Connecticut Basement Systems to come out after we returned from vacation.

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