Basement Flooding

I've become an old pro at drying out wet basements over the years. All of my experience, of course, has been developed in the process of drying out the basement here at ranchero indebto. Please don't get me wrong, even though I write from the swamps of jersey, my basement isn't continuously wet. It's only under intense prolonged meteorological events -- like those nasty nor' easters, torrential tropical storms, or hurricanes (be they classified or in the form of remnants) -- where our basement floods.

These days, I worry about basement flooding two or three times each year. After taking a series of basement waterproofing measures, my basement flooding concerns have been greatly reduced. This last big bad east coast storm may have flooded out many unfortunate folks, but my basement remained dry, with the exception of a small puddle.

Drying out a Flooded Basement

Through trial and error and plenty of floods, I've found that drying out a flooded basement is often broken down into three main steps:

• Draining the flood water from the basement
• Mopping up the basement floor
• Drying out the basement

Next: Draining the flood water

 

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