Water

The 8th of February seemed like  normal day - until after my morning piano lesson Abigail comes running and saying the carpet is really wet at the bottom of the stairs.  I thought someone had spilled water or something, but I opened the door and BAM!  An inch of water all over the floor that had come in over night.

We had no idea where the water was coming in from - so we called Kartchner to see if we were under warranty and they'd take care of it.  We were past our warranty but they sent someone to come look at it to help us, and he thought it was coming in from the windows.  It seemed like a lot of water for that, but we went ahead and got a pump from the store (we weren't the only ones there with problems!) and spent a few hours pushing water to the pump to get it out.

We'd push the water and we thought were were making progress, but it would never stay down.  It made no sense!  And it was in our cold storage, our workout room - practically everywhere down there!  It wasn't until Joe got the shop vac and started vacuuming that we saw it just seep in from under the foundation - it was coming in at the lowest points, and anywhere there was a crack.  Joe finally decided to break a hole in the concrete and put the pump below ground and it worked!

Then ... two days later, even with the pump on, it came back!

My dad was kind enough to buy us a better pump and bring it up (they ran out up here), and that pump seemed to do a bit better.  We did decide to get one permanently installed once the plumbers can get here!