Odds and Ends

 

The front corner of the basement, not far from where the new electrical panel is located, is damp.  No, when it rains, there is a stream that trickles through.  When it rains, the water pools in this corner outside.  First, the water in the gutter in this area doesn't go down the spout, it pours over the side of the gutter.  Then the plastic downspout extension goes back into a smaller piece of metal downspout that goes into a smaller broken pipe.  The water is running over the pipes, not into the pipes.

 

 

 

 

The other day I was looking out the window on the second floor .  I just happened to notice the gutter was totally full of water and it hadn't rained in a few days.  No wonder the water pours over, the gutter must be clogged!  Easy fix.  I shimmied out onto the roof, empty plastic bags in hand, to clean the gutter.

 

The gutter wasn't clogged.  The downspout extended 3 inches up into the gutter.  The rainwater from the roof had to rise more than 3 inches to get into the downspout.  It never had time to get that high before it ran over the side of the gutter and poured onto the front porch and into the basement  There was no clog, it was put together wrong.  *sigh*

 

A quick snip with the tin snips, and now the rain water can drain out of the gutter and down the spout. 

 
Add 50feet of new pipe, put the downspout together properly, smaller pieces into larger fittings to catch the water.  And a realization that part of the problem is the neighbor's rain pipe isn't connected either.  It's pour their roof water into our basement.  We'll be good neighbors and fix that for them.  Walt Kowalski said he'd even use some glue to keep the pipe together.

 
The new pipe needs buried.  This side of the house is low.  We might be able to get away with removing the old broken pipe in the ground, setting the new one in place, and covering the entire area with stone and dirt. 

We also finished the drywall in the back bedroom. Once we closed in the window, all that was left was insulation in the wall.

Seams and screws and seams and screws and seams and screws.