Demolitionland....waterland

The landscaper demolition crew were here on Monday for about 2.5 hours. They managed to dig up pretty well all the cement in the back yard and the deck and pile it up into these lovely mounds before they left.

By then, it was raining hard. And it continued to rain hard all that night and much of the following evening. Parts of the yard are secure enough to walk on, cautiously, but some is still too slick to really get a secure footing. This is the second full day that they haven't returned, and Lazy Gnome is assuming they may not be here tomorrow, either.

Meanwhile, Monday night at 9:30 water was discovered in the basement. Not a huge amount and nothing appears to have been damaged, however, water is water and water in the basement is frightening. By some small miracle the garage guy showed up at the door Tuesday morning so LG showed him the situation in the basement. He believes based on consultation with his business partner that it is due to the grading and that once that is corrected it will not happen again. This is why we are going through this whole procedure, so it might be a huge sign from Mother Nature that we are doing the right thing and at the right time.

However, others have suggested having some magic composition injected into the wall at the point of the drip. This is worth checking out~~interjection: THUNDER! Surprise! So much for the sunshine which appears in the photo taken 15 minutes ago. This is reminiscent of the summer of 2004 when LG and her neighbours were trying to get fences built...hours spent hiding from the rain on the verandah, watching the water flow across the front of our properties and down the road...it was fascinating.

Back to the water in the basement: The most extreme possibility is that the weeping tile needs to be re-done. That is a huge intervention but should be entertained NOW given that the landscaping work is underway and why do everything up pretty just to dig it up again next year, say? Plus, it appears to LG that a poor backfilling job of the installation of the weeping tile originally is what has caused all the land around the foundation to slope toward the house.

Okay--more thunder: time to go close all the windows, again. Any drying the mud did today is now shot.

LG might crawl under the covers and hide...or, she might pull out the paint samples for the back entry and the back bedroom that she picked up although one should really select colours based on sunlight....

Or, she could wait in the basement for the first signs of more water.