I knew this would take longer than one day, in spite of what the sales man said. The American Dry Basement crew showed up here around 9 am and got right to work. I drained out the solar tank and moved it out of the way, along with the two water filters. One thing to note: It appears, upon inspection of the pipes, that the water filters are doing a great job getting rid of the iron in our well water. The pipe coming from the well has a good coating of orange rust on it, the pipe leaving the water filter is perfectly clean.  I’ll have to do a separate post on that later.

The contractors are very thorough, covering all of our stuff piled in the middle of the basement with plastic. Even though the floor was covered in water, the jack hammer still created some concrete dust.

They began by jack hammering around the perimeter of the basement floor, leaving several connectors in place. This created a pretty good size trench. It was good to see the footing and know that it was poured correctly. There is hope after all. After all the concrete was jack hammered, the debris was loaded into 5 gallon buckets and carried upstairs to the truck. They will get rid of all that waste material for us by taking  it to a recycle center in Danbury, CT.  There it is ground up and reused, which is nice. The 5 gallon buckets were used on the return trip to carry number 2 gravel downstairs.

Another view:

Looks like a mess and that water is cold.  I don’t envy these guys one bit, they are earning every penny we are paying them.

Before they left for the day, a Zoeller M53 effluent pump was dropped into one corner to get some of the water out.  Then they can install the perforated pipe and drain basins.  We will have two drain basins and two pumps, one on either side of the basement.  They will be back tomorrow to finish the job, so check back for more pictures.

This whole thing is happening so fast I have not had a chance to draw it out.  When I have the opportunity, I will draw out some details and get a parts list together.

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