It was frelling 85° in the house when I got back from my bike ride this evening, so I dragged the a/c up from the basement and installed it in the back room window. I gotta say, there's nothing like lugging a forty pound air conditioner up a flight of stairs, then maneuvering it into a window after you've just finished a nice 21 mile bike ride on a ( Read more... )

I sucked up the last small puddles of standing water tonight.* I wanted to give the last of the water a chance to pool in low lying parts of the floor to scout out a good location for a future sump. Most of the floor is still damp, but there are some dry areas. I've got a big fan moving air around, and the dehumidifier is going great guns.

* The ( Read more... )

A pump has been obtained. Apparently the Depot was open all night selling freshly received pumps and other accoutrements. $242 later I have a sump pump, 2 x 25' of 1¼ tubing, and a shiny, new 9 gallon shop-vac ( Read more... )

So, a 30' by 25' basement filled with 3" of water works out to be 187.5 cubic feet of water. Plugging that number into an online converter gives me... 1402 gallons of water that needs to be removed. Ummm, yikes!

:: Looks at 5 gallon shop-vac. ::

We're gonna need a bigger bailer.

Joy. All the rain has caused the local water table to rise to where it is now higher than my basement floor. There's a good solid inch of water down there now with another couple of days of heavy rain to come. This past weekend I'd just managed to dry out the smallish amount of water that seeped in during the last big storm. Bother ( Read more... )

Finally, a weekend day that was neither ridiculously cold nor rainy/snowy. No snow cover, either ( Read more... )

After spending a couple hours down in the basement after work with the wet vac, it's mostly dry down there this morning, which means it still a little wet, but the dehumidifier seems to have things in hand. The laundry rug and some floor mats are draped over the clothesline outside. There was some damage, although the worst bit was more collateral ( Read more... )

Despite going to sleep at a reasonable hour, I slept badly due to the combination constant pouring rain rattling off the case of the a/c and the stuffiness/humidity of the room with the window closed. I turned on the overhead fan to move air around, but it didn't help much. I got up at the usual hour, and went down to the basement to get some clean ( Read more... )

So, I rode a lot this weekend. Eighteen miles on the South County path yesterday, and twenty-six today up on the Blackstone Valley path. That brings me to 1363 for the year, surpassing last year's 1362, with plenty of riding days left for the year. Go me ( Read more... )

Some men drink to forget; I play games on the computer. Spent most of the weekend directing an armored battalion from Normandy to the suburbs of Paris in Steel Panthers. Didn't ride my bike at all, although the only day the weather actually allowed me a choice in the matter was today, and I couldn't be arsed. The weather people have been recycling ( Read more... )