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The weather has been unusually rainy the past few weeks and it definitely qualified as a huge/extraordinary storm. The store my son worked in had some minor flooding and the local Facebook channel was full of people asking recommendations for water mitigation, so I wasn't the worse off, but I'll...

Putting a cover is something that I will likely do, but the other windows, including one 6 feet from this one along the same wall didn't have a problem, so the main problem was the water rushing down the metal side. The other windows and the last inch of water in this window well dissipated fast...

The house mostly has the group sloping away from it, although the area close to that window well is almost flat (under a deck) and the area directly around the weel slops away from it but the years was a giant puddle because of how hard the rain was coming down. I guess I need to figure out why...

We had a big thunderstorm with hail and dumping water today and I happened to grab something in the basement by the window and realized the window well was filling up. Within minutes the water was getting to window level, so I popped the screen and started bailing buckets from the window well. I...

That's what it took, vs what I had:

Called a pro. Of course the $93 special didn't apply because it was only for rooting out main lines from the access clean out and since only the kitchen and not the entire house was overflowing, it was not the main line :) The plumber ran a big rooter cable machine out about 75 feet. He said he...

I don't know where the blockage is. I was able to run the full 25' snake in, and didn't run I to anything obvious. A few times the snake seems to catch (I was feeding it manually) but roaring it for it past that point and pulling it out brought nothing with it, so it may have been a bend.

Got a 25' snake, I am able to run it full length. I don't know if I could feel a obstruction or a bend in the pipe but I was never able to pull anything out and each time the snake was able to move further in after a bit of cranking. But the problem is not gone. When I open the faucet the water...

Some family members were working yesterday so we are celebrating Thanksgiving today. While cooking, we ran the sink with the garbage disposal running and the area under the sink flooded hard. My troubleshooting: the water was coming out of the tall black drain pipe in the picture even though...

Yeah there is a YouTube video about a guy using a pancake compressor and an extra tank made from a propane tank. Since I didn't have any of the supplies and wasn't quite sure I trusted the safety aspect, I decided I could afford the new compressor. If storage hadn't been a concern, I might have...

Painted with high traffic white paint then got carpet pads on Amazon, happy with the finished results, and the stairs are much quieter than they used to be:

Ok a final update. The person that said they would let.me borrow their compressor changes their mind, but I got to see what they use, and it's one of the smallish "hotdog" compressors with like 3-5 CFM, not a major muti-thousands dollars model, and they say they have used it for over 10 years to...

The valve box is next to the house and basically at the highest point in the system. I think the installers assumed it would be blown out every winter.

I may have found a compressor to borrow. I will try the pancake, then the borrowed compressor on the same line to see if it flushes more.

Colorado. I don't know how deep the lines are, I've only dealt with replacing heads off the "stems" off the buried line, but the valve box is less than 2 feet deep. There isn't a drain line that I'm aware of, so even if I were to open the lower head on each line, some water would remain in the...