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Ummm . . . is this bad for my house??

A

amol

Lifer
Okay, so, I REALLY REALLY want this rain to go away!! But it won't . . .

Anyways, my house is on a foundation and on the side, there is about 2 inches of water . . . I think there's a little plug that's supposed to drain the water but its not opening .. .

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what should i do?
 
First off... You need a decent camera. 😉 Seriously, you must have teken that with a cell phone, right?

Anyway.... Your foundation is LARGER than your house? Where's this "plug" go? Into your basement?

Doesn't make sense. You wouldn't drain water into your basement. 😉 Is it supposed to be a storm drain? If so, why would someone "plug" it?
 
1) the reason the pic is blurry is because it was POURING when i took the pic and its hard to stand there and take a pic from that angle because there are some obstacles and such

2) no basement, this is so cal
 
Blurry picture and no decent description of what/why/where this plug is/does.

Well, this thread certainly died quickly. 😀
 
well, i dont know MUCH about the house . . .

anyways, in a few hours, theres going to be a TON of water under the house so . . . not good . . .
 
That may be the clean out for your underground piping from the gutters. If something gets clogged, you open this up and run a snake down it.

To answer your question, leave it alone.
 
Originally posted by: raanemaan
It is probably a cleanout for the sewer line.
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Ah! You know what... Now that I take my glasses off and look at it (blurry + blurry = clear) I can see that it is probably a sewer clean-out.

That's not a plug that'll do you much good.

If the house has no basement... Don't worry about it. There's nothing you'll be able to do short of buying a pump. At least you don't have a basement that can flug. I'd be more worried about trees falling over due to ground saturation.

I live in Florida. We have no basements. The water gets up to two feet high around the house during the hurricanes. As long as it's not that deep by a door, or you don't have a sinkhole open up underneath you, we don't worry about it. Just pile sandbags up in front of any low lying crevaces (doors, garage, etc.) It's been so bad that my car was parked on the side of the house and IT filled up with water to the point where I'm now looking for an interior for an A1 VW (not easy!)

But after the rain subsided, it soaked into the ground and the 40 year old Live Oak across the street fell over because the ground was too soft to support it. 🙁
 
First of all it's not a plug, it's a cap. Second of all, the picture is extremely blury. Thirdly, the pipe is too high above the water table to have any effect even if it was open. So fourthly, it's probably not there to drain water, but serves some other purpose (venting, maybe septic plumbing). Giving us a description of what rooms are near the pipe and what sort of things are in your basement near that pipe could give a hint (sump pump, toilet, shower, water heater, mainline out to septic tank/septic system).
 
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