GM's thread about nothing (18 Viewers)

[General Malaise]

Thank god that stayed in the park. West coast start times are rough... extra innings would have been too much. #rangers #baseballchat #hasthtag

Thank god that stayed in the park. West coast start times are rough... extra innings would have been too much. #rangers #baseballchat #hasthtag

ockquote> Only 10:30 close time for me, GB. I thought that one was going out at first. Thank you damp Northwest spring air.

#InternetPro

GM is starting to do a lot of things I imagine my dad would do when confronted with interweb challenges.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Pretty sure she needs to be called out.

Since calling attention to attention-whores is always a good idea on the internet.

No one craves that kind attention.

WTF IS GOING ON IN HERE> It's like someone hit you over the head with a rock and you have amnesia. SNAP OUT OF IT GBMP!

You gonna ban her or what?

 

[T Bell]

Pretty sure she needs to be called out.

Since calling attention to attention-whores is always a good idea on the internet.

No one craves that kind attention.

WTF IS GOING ON IN HERE> It's like someone hit you over the head with a rock and you have amnesia. SNAP OUT OF IT GBMP!

You gonna ban her or what?

Maybe lets suggest that we start a "Save Jodi Arias" collection and send money to her for safe keeping, and see what happens.

 

[General Malaise]

Pretty sure she needs to be called out.

Since calling attention to attention-whores is always a good idea on the internet.

I've got Doug on the phone already on that crazy Baker Botts Beyotch, want me to ask him bout this cray cray (#shaggybevo)?

 

[General Malaise]

Is she at least cute?

 

[Limp Ditka]

I think I stared death in the eyes today.

I was walking back from the Dr's office and wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me for a moment. This was because something in the front yard of the house I was passing had drawn my attention. As I redirected my focus back to the sidewalk / direction I'm going, about 5 sidewalk squares in front of me is something in my path.

As I'm muttering to myself, 'WTF is that' the something starts to move.

I stop dead in my tracks as the next thing I know I'm staring eye to eye with a hawk who appears pretty pissed off that I'm interrupting its squirrel breakfast . Then the hawk, at most 10 feet in front of me, spreads its wings and just stands there looking at me. This thing was hugegantic. Its wingspan was as wide as the sidewalk. After about 3 seconds of stare-down the hawk took off in my direction. It got about half way to me and veered off to it's left and headed up into the tree behind me.

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

When I started walking I didn't even pass the squirrel because I didn't want the hawk thinking I was a threat to it's grub. I went to the other side of the street.

 

[Abraham]

I think I stared death in the eyes today.

I was walking back from the Dr's office and wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me for a moment. This was because something in the front yard of the house I was passing had drawn my attention. As I redirected my focus back to the sidewalk / direction I'm going, about 5 sidewalk squares in front of me is something in my path.

As I'm muttering to myself, 'WTF is that' the something starts to move.

I stop dead in my tracks as the next thing I know I'm staring eye to eye with a hawk who appears pretty pissed off that I'm interrupting its squirrel breakfast . Then the hawk, at most 10 feet in front of me, spreads its wings and just stands there looking at me. This thing was hugegantic. Its wingspan was as wide as the sidewalk. After about 3 seconds of stare-down the hawk took off in my direction. It got about half way to me and veered off to it's left and headed up into the tree behind me.

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

When I started walking I didn't even pass the squirrel because I didn't want the hawk thinking I was a threat to it's grub. I went to the other side of the street.

I just want my children to grow up in a world where the presence of a hawk doesn't make them want to cross the street.

#endracism

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

Out of fear or were you enraptored?

 

[Frostillicus]

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

Out of fear or were you enraptored?

It probably thought you were looking at robin his lunch.

 

[T Bell]

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

Out of fear or were you enraptored?

I think he was just impressed with the hawk's obvious talon.

 

[Mr.Pack]

That sucks GB, my sump pump is running every 30 secs. If we lose power I'm sunk.

No backup?

No. Looking into one...... run around $400 for something decent. I need to do this soon.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

Out of fear or were you enraptored?

I think he was just impressed with the hawk's obvious talon.

That's pretty falcon stupid.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Speaking of crazy broads...

Guy records his wife lying about abuse...saves his ###.

(some bleeped out swear words)

She sounds like a well adjusted young woman.

 

[T Bell]

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

Out of fear or were you enraptored?

I think he was just impressed with the hawk's obvious talon.

That's pretty falcon stupid.

Stop sniping at me.

 

[YSR]

I think I stared death in the eyes today.

I was walking back from the Dr's office and wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me for a moment. This was because something in the front yard of the house I was passing had drawn my attention. As I redirected my focus back to the sidewalk / direction I'm going, about 5 sidewalk squares in front of me is something in my path.

As I'm muttering to myself, 'WTF is that' the something starts to move.

I stop dead in my tracks as the next thing I know I'm staring eye to eye with a hawk who appears pretty pissed off that I'm interrupting its squirrel breakfast . Then the hawk, at most 10 feet in front of me, spreads its wings and just stands there looking at me. This thing was hugegantic. Its wingspan was as wide as the sidewalk. After about 3 seconds of stare-down the hawk took off in my direction. It got about half way to me and veered off to it's left and headed up into the tree behind me.

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

When I started walking I didn't even pass the squirrel because I didn't want the hawk thinking I was a threat to it's grub. I went to the other side of the street.

When we first bought our house in FL, no one had lived there for about a year or so beforehand and apparently a couple of hawks had set up shop in our backyward. We lived on the Intracoastal and one day I walked down to our dock and sat on the bulkhead talking to my father on the phone. Next thing I know, it felt like a 2x4 had just struck me on the back of the head. My sunglasses flew off my face and down onto the dock, and I looked up to see this guy fly off into the distance a little, then circle around and fly back to his nest about 50 yards behind me. I swear he was making eye contact with me the entire time.

A few weeks later, another one buzzed Romo as he was cutting the grass in the backyard.

They're scary MFers.

 

[UOFI_316]

That sucks GB, my sump pump is running every 30 secs. If we lose power I'm sunk.

No backup?

No. Looking into one...... run around $400 for something decent. I need to do this soon.

I bought the Watchdog brand backup sump and battery for around $350. make sure if you get this one to re-adjust the float levels so both backup floats are above the main floats. They ship it in the wrong configuration. Also a backup battery only lasts for 8 hours of run time, even with mine I fear if I am not home during a weekend of heavy rains it could fail and kill the battery.

Stryker and Shuke, if the water is coming in through a crack in the wall you can fix it from the inside, but it is best to do it from the outside so you are sure you have sealed it off.

First make sure your yard is sloping away from the house and there is nothing allowing water to collect against the foudnation wall (landscaping beds that hold water, downspouts...).

If it is a crack you can take an angle grinder or drill with grinding wheel and backcut into the crack, make it an inverted V, along the length of the crack. Clean out crack. Buy a tub of hydraulic cement. Mix up cement to a peanut butter consistency (do not mix with jelly). Lightly spray crack with water. Fill up your newly enlarged crack with cement mixture, make sure you get it filled all the way. Go drink beers.

The hydraulic cement expands as it dries, and can cure while getting wet. I had several cracks in the foundation wall when we moved in, after doing this to them there is only one small spot that gets moist when it really rains.

Total cost of fix: $100 including beer and a days worth of work.

If you can dig down outside you can inject an epoxy filler into the crack to seal it off that way. Doing the patch from the inside does not stop water from getting into the crack, so it can still find another way into your house.

 

[T Bell]

Speaking of crazy broads...

Guy records his wife lying about abuse...saves his ###.

(some bleeped out swear words)

She sounds like a well adjusted young woman.

Wow, what a C U Next Tuesday.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

Out of fear or were you enraptored?

I think he was just impressed with the hawk's obvious talon.

That's pretty falcon stupid.

Stop sniping at me.

OK, owl be good.

 

[T Bell]

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

Out of fear or were you enraptored?

I think he was just impressed with the hawk's obvious talon.

That's pretty falcon stupid.

Stop sniping at me.

OK, owl be good.

You'd better. I'll be chicken up on you.

 

[Limp Ditka]

I think I stared death in the eyes today.

I was walking back from the Dr's office and wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me for a moment. This was because something in the front yard of the house I was passing had drawn my attention. As I redirected my focus back to the sidewalk / direction I'm going, about 5 sidewalk squares in front of me is something in my path.

As I'm muttering to myself, 'WTF is that' the something starts to move.

I stop dead in my tracks as the next thing I know I'm staring eye to eye with a hawk who appears pretty pissed off that I'm interrupting its squirrel breakfast . Then the hawk, at most 10 feet in front of me, spreads its wings and just stands there looking at me. This thing was hugegantic. Its wingspan was as wide as the sidewalk. After about 3 seconds of stare-down the hawk took off in my direction. It got about half way to me and veered off to it's left and headed up into the tree behind me.

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

When I started walking I didn't even pass the squirrel because I didn't want the hawk thinking I was a threat to it's grub. I went to the other side of the street.

When we first bought our house in FL, no one had lived there for about a year or so beforehand and apparently a couple of hawks had set up shop in our backyward. We lived on the Intracoastal and one day I walked down to our dock and sat on the bulkhead talking to my father on the phone. Next thing I know, it felt like a 2x4 had just struck me on the back of the head. My sunglasses flew off my face and down onto the dock, and I looked up to see this guy fly off into the distance a little, then circle around and fly back to his nest about 50 yards behind me. I swear he was making eye contact with me the entire time.

A few weeks later, another one buzzed Romo as he was cutting the grass in the backyard.

They're scary MFers.

Yes they are. I was pretty proud that I didn't soil myself.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

Out of fear or were you enraptored?

I think he was just impressed with the hawk's obvious talon.

That's pretty falcon stupid.

Stop sniping at me.

OK, owl be good.

You'd better. I'll be chicken up on you.

I might post one or two more on a lark.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Rabbit tries to eat a pencil

Reminds me of a girl I knew in (Jr) college.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

That's it, I'm outta here. This thread is for the birds.

 

[Osaurus]

Sup GMTAN afternoon peeps

 

[Mr.Pack]

Oh I'm home alone with my 2 boys tonight. Just opened another beer. Raising kids is hard

2? Did I miss something?

Nope, I read it the same way. 2.

 

[T Bell]

Rabbit tries to eat a pencil

Reminds me of a girl I knew in (Jr) college.

Rabbit

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

That's it, I'm outta here. This thread is for the birds.

Take a gander at the other stuff posted here.

 

[T Bell]

That's it, I'm outta here. This thread is for the birds.

You belong here. Don't go ducking out.

 

[The_Man]

I think I stared death in the eyes today.

I was walking back from the Dr's office and wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me for a moment. This was because something in the front yard of the house I was passing had drawn my attention. As I redirected my focus back to the sidewalk / direction I'm going, about 5 sidewalk squares in front of me is something in my path.

As I'm muttering to myself, 'WTF is that' the something starts to move.

I stop dead in my tracks as the next thing I know I'm staring eye to eye with a hawk who appears pretty pissed off that I'm interrupting its squirrel breakfast . Then the hawk, at most 10 feet in front of me, spreads its wings and just stands there looking at me. This thing was hugegantic. Its wingspan was as wide as the sidewalk. After about 3 seconds of stare-down the hawk took off in my direction. It got about half way to me and veered off to it's left and headed up into the tree behind me.

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

When I started walking I didn't even pass the squirrel because I didn't want the hawk thinking I was a threat to it's grub. I went to the other side of the street.

When we first bought our house in FL, no one had lived there for about a year or so beforehand and apparently a couple of hawks had set up shop in our backyward. We lived on the Intracoastal and one day I walked down to our dock and sat on the bulkhead talking to my father on the phone. Next thing I know, it felt like a 2x4 had just struck me on the back of the head. My sunglasses flew off my face and down onto the dock, and I looked up to see this guy fly off into the distance a little, then circle around and fly back to his nest about 50 yards behind me. I swear he was making eye contact with me the entire time.

A few weeks later, another one buzzed Romo as he was cutting the grass in the backyard.

They're scary MFers.

Sounds like a bit from Condor Camera.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I think I stared death in the eyes today.

I was walking back from the Dr's office and wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me for a moment. This was because something in the front yard of the house I was passing had drawn my attention. As I redirected my focus back to the sidewalk / direction I'm going, about 5 sidewalk squares in front of me is something in my path.

As I'm muttering to myself, 'WTF is that' the something starts to move.

I stop dead in my tracks as the next thing I know I'm staring eye to eye with a hawk who appears pretty pissed off that I'm interrupting its squirrel breakfast . Then the hawk, at most 10 feet in front of me, spreads its wings and just stands there looking at me. This thing was hugegantic. Its wingspan was as wide as the sidewalk. After about 3 seconds of stare-down the hawk took off in my direction. It got about half way to me and veered off to it's left and headed up into the tree behind me.

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

When I started walking I didn't even pass the squirrel because I didn't want the hawk thinking I was a threat to it's grub. I went to the other side of the street.

When we first bought our house in FL, no one had lived there for about a year or so beforehand and apparently a couple of hawks had set up shop in our backyward. We lived on the Intracoastal and one day I walked down to our dock and sat on the bulkhead talking to my father on the phone. Next thing I know, it felt like a 2x4 had just struck me on the back of the head. My sunglasses flew off my face and down onto the dock, and I looked up to see this guy fly off into the distance a little, then circle around and fly back to his nest about 50 yards behind me. I swear he was making eye contact with me the entire time.

A few weeks later, another one buzzed Romo as he was cutting the grass in the backyard.

They're scary MFers.

Sounds like a bit from Condor Camera.

Horrible

 

[The_Man]

I think I stared death in the eyes today.

I was walking back from the Dr's office and wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me for a moment. This was because something in the front yard of the house I was passing had drawn my attention. As I redirected my focus back to the sidewalk / direction I'm going, about 5 sidewalk squares in front of me is something in my path.

As I'm muttering to myself, 'WTF is that' the something starts to move.

I stop dead in my tracks as the next thing I know I'm staring eye to eye with a hawk who appears pretty pissed off that I'm interrupting its squirrel breakfast . Then the hawk, at most 10 feet in front of me, spreads its wings and just stands there looking at me. This thing was hugegantic. Its wingspan was as wide as the sidewalk. After about 3 seconds of stare-down the hawk took off in my direction. It got about half way to me and veered off to it's left and headed up into the tree behind me.

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

When I started walking I didn't even pass the squirrel because I didn't want the hawk thinking I was a threat to it's grub. I went to the other side of the street.

When we first bought our house in FL, no one had lived there for about a year or so beforehand and apparently a couple of hawks had set up shop in our backyward. We lived on the Intracoastal and one day I walked down to our dock and sat on the bulkhead talking to my father on the phone. Next thing I know, it felt like a 2x4 had just struck me on the back of the head. My sunglasses flew off my face and down onto the dock, and I looked up to see this guy fly off into the distance a little, then circle around and fly back to his nest about 50 yards behind me. I swear he was making eye contact with me the entire time.

A few weeks later, another one buzzed Romo as he was cutting the grass in the backyard.

They're scary MFers.

Sounds like a bit from Condor Camera.

Horrible

Yeah, I kind of egret posting that

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I think I stared death in the eyes today.

I was walking back from the Dr's office and wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me for a moment. This was because something in the front yard of the house I was passing had drawn my attention. As I redirected my focus back to the sidewalk / direction I'm going, about 5 sidewalk squares in front of me is something in my path.

As I'm muttering to myself, 'WTF is that' the something starts to move.

I stop dead in my tracks as the next thing I know I'm staring eye to eye with a hawk who appears pretty pissed off that I'm interrupting its squirrel breakfast . Then the hawk, at most 10 feet in front of me, spreads its wings and just stands there looking at me. This thing was hugegantic. Its wingspan was as wide as the sidewalk. After about 3 seconds of stare-down the hawk took off in my direction. It got about half way to me and veered off to it's left and headed up into the tree behind me.

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

When I started walking I didn't even pass the squirrel because I didn't want the hawk thinking I was a threat to it's grub. I went to the other side of the street.

When we first bought our house in FL, no one had lived there for about a year or so beforehand and apparently a couple of hawks had set up shop in our backyward. We lived on the Intracoastal and one day I walked down to our dock and sat on the bulkhead talking to my father on the phone. Next thing I know, it felt like a 2x4 had just struck me on the back of the head. My sunglasses flew off my face and down onto the dock, and I looked up to see this guy fly off into the distance a little, then circle around and fly back to his nest about 50 yards behind me. I swear he was making eye contact with me the entire time.

A few weeks later, another one buzzed Romo as he was cutting the grass in the backyard.

They're scary MFers.

Sounds like a bit from Condor Camera.

Horrible

Yeah, I kind of egret posting that

It wasn't a cardinal sin or anything.

 

[Limp Ditka]

I think I stared death in the eyes today.

I was walking back from the Dr's office and wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me for a moment. This was because something in the front yard of the house I was passing had drawn my attention. As I redirected my focus back to the sidewalk / direction I'm going, about 5 sidewalk squares in front of me is something in my path.

As I'm muttering to myself, 'WTF is that' the something starts to move.

I stop dead in my tracks as the next thing I know I'm staring eye to eye with a hawk who appears pretty pissed off that I'm interrupting its squirrel breakfast . Then the hawk, at most 10 feet in front of me, spreads its wings and just stands there looking at me. This thing was hugegantic. Its wingspan was as wide as the sidewalk. After about 3 seconds of stare-down the hawk took off in my direction. It got about half way to me and veered off to it's left and headed up into the tree behind me.

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

When I started walking I didn't even pass the squirrel because I didn't want the hawk thinking I was a threat to it's grub. I went to the other side of the street.

When we first bought our house in FL, no one had lived there for about a year or so beforehand and apparently a couple of hawks had set up shop in our backyward. We lived on the Intracoastal and one day I walked down to our dock and sat on the bulkhead talking to my father on the phone. Next thing I know, it felt like a 2x4 had just struck me on the back of the head. My sunglasses flew off my face and down onto the dock, and I looked up to see this guy fly off into the distance a little, then circle around and fly back to his nest about 50 yards behind me. I swear he was making eye contact with me the entire time.

A few weeks later, another one buzzed Romo as he was cutting the grass in the backyard.

They're scary MFers.

Sounds like a bit from Condor Camera.

Horrible

Yeah, I kind of egret posting that

It wasn't a cardinal sin or anything.

You toucan stop it now

 

[Mr.Pack]

That sucks GB, my sump pump is running every 30 secs. If we lose power I'm sunk.

No backup?

No. Looking into one...... run around $400 for something decent. I need to do this soon.

I bought the Watchdog brand backup sump and battery for around $350. make sure if you get this one to re-adjust the float levels so both backup floats are above the main floats. They ship it in the wrong configuration. Also a backup battery only lasts for 8 hours of run time, even with mine I fear if I am not home during a weekend of heavy rains it could fail and kill the battery.

Stryker and Shuke, if the water is coming in through a crack in the wall you can fix it from the inside, but it is best to do it from the outside so you are sure you have sealed it off.

First make sure your yard is sloping away from the house and there is nothing allowing water to collect against the foudnation wall (landscaping beds that hold water, downspouts...).

If it is a crack you can take an angle grinder or drill with grinding wheel and backcut into the crack, make it an inverted V, along the length of the crack. Clean out crack. Buy a tub of hydraulic cement. Mix up cement to a peanut butter consistency (do not mix with jelly). Lightly spray crack with water. Fill up your newly enlarged crack with cement mixture, make sure you get it filled all the way. Go drink beers.

The hydraulic cement expands as it dries, and can cure while getting wet. I had several cracks in the foundation wall when we moved in, after doing this to them there is only one small spot that gets moist when it really rains.

Total cost of fix: $100 including beer and a days worth of work.

If you can dig down outside you can inject an epoxy filler into the crack to seal it off that way. Doing the patch from the inside does not stop water from getting into the crack, so it can still find another way into your house.

This is the one I'm looking at

Plus the battery for it is maintenance free.

 

[mr roboto]

I think I stared death in the eyes today. I was walking back from the Dr's office and wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me for a moment. This was because something in the front yard of the house I was passing had drawn my attention. As I redirected my focus back to the sidewalk / direction I'm going, about 5 sidewalk squares in front of me is something in my path. As I'm muttering to myself, 'WTF is that' the something starts to move. I stop dead in my tracks as the next thing I know I'm staring eye to eye with a hawk who appears pretty pissed off that I'm interrupting its squirrel breakfast . Then the hawk, at most 10 feet in front of me, spreads its wings and just stands there looking at me. This thing was hugegantic. Its wingspan was as wide as the sidewalk. After about 3 seconds of stare-down the hawk took off in my direction. It got about half way to me and veered off to it's left and headed up into the tree behind me. I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds When I started walking I didn't even pass the squirrel because I didn't want the hawk thinking I was a threat to it's grub. I went to the other side of the street.

When we first bought our house in FL, no one had lived there for about a year or so beforehand and apparently a couple of hawks had set up shop in our backyward. We lived on the Intracoastal and one day I walked down to our dock and sat on the bulkhead talking to my father on the phone. Next thing I know, it felt like a 2x4 had just struck me on the back of the head. My sunglasses flew off my face and down onto the dock, and I looked up to see this guy fly off into the distance a little, then circle around and fly back to his nest about 50 yards behind me. I swear he was making eye contact with me the entire time. A few weeks later, another one buzzed Romo as he was cutting the grass in the backyard. They're scary MFers.

Sounds like a bit from Condor Camera.

Horrible

Yeah, I kind of egret posting that

It wasn't a cardinal sin or anything.

You toucan stop it now

yYou're so gullible.

 

[shuke]

That sucks GB, my sump pump is running every 30 secs. If we lose power I'm sunk.

No backup?

No. Looking into one...... run around $400 for something decent. I need to do this soon.

I bought the Watchdog brand backup sump and battery for around $350. make sure if you get this one to re-adjust the float levels so both backup floats are above the main floats. They ship it in the wrong configuration. Also a backup battery only lasts for 8 hours of run time, even with mine I fear if I am not home during a weekend of heavy rains it could fail and kill the battery.

Stryker and Shuke, if the water is coming in through a crack in the wall you can fix it from the inside, but it is best to do it from the outside so you are sure you have sealed it off.

First make sure your yard is sloping away from the house and there is nothing allowing water to collect against the foudnation wall (landscaping beds that hold water, downspouts...).

If it is a crack you can take an angle grinder or drill with grinding wheel and backcut into the crack, make it an inverted V, along the length of the crack. Clean out crack. Buy a tub of hydraulic cement. Mix up cement to a peanut butter consistency (do not mix with jelly). Lightly spray crack with water. Fill up your newly enlarged crack with cement mixture, make sure you get it filled all the way. Go drink beers.

The hydraulic cement expands as it dries, and can cure while getting wet. I had several cracks in the foundation wall when we moved in, after doing this to them there is only one small spot that gets moist when it really rains.

Total cost of fix: $100 including beer and a days worth of work.

If you can dig down outside you can inject an epoxy filler into the crack to seal it off that way. Doing the patch from the inside does not stop water from getting into the crack, so it can still find another way into your house.

Thanks. Everything I've read is that sealing it from the inside will just put water pressure at some other spot, though. I am guessing the crack is about 6 feet underground. Are we talking digging up the entire yard here?

I think I've talked about this before. I don't know if we are sitting on an uderground spring or what. But if the power goes out for about 8-12 hours, water starts coming up THROUGH THE FLOOR.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

:BirdChat: activated.

 

[Idiot Boxer]

Rabbit tries to eat a pencil

Reminds me of a girl I knew in (Jr) college.

New species schtick?

 

[The_Man]

This is the one I'm looking at

Plus the battery for it is maintenance free.

I have one a lot like that (though older). It's fantastic. We have a french drain that feeds into a sump pit in my basement - my basement is dry as a bone, but when it's raining the sump pump kicks on every couple of minutes. Since we lose power all the time when it rains, the basement would flood immediately without a battery back-up. Despite losing power for almost a week twice in the last year, the battery back-up for the sump pump never failed.

Come to think of it, I might want to look at getting a new battery. I got a Marine battery for that thing, plugged it in, and pretty much haven't looked at it again in the last 6 or 7 years.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

:BirdChat: activated.

Sump-pump: Whatchagot?

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I think I stared death in the eyes today.

I was walking back from the Dr's office and wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me for a moment. This was because something in the front yard of the house I was passing had drawn my attention. As I redirected my focus back to the sidewalk / direction I'm going, about 5 sidewalk squares in front of me is something in my path.

As I'm muttering to myself, 'WTF is that' the something starts to move.

I stop dead in my tracks as the next thing I know I'm staring eye to eye with a hawk who appears pretty pissed off that I'm interrupting its squirrel breakfast . Then the hawk, at most 10 feet in front of me, spreads its wings and just stands there looking at me. This thing was hugegantic. Its wingspan was as wide as the sidewalk. After about 3 seconds of stare-down the hawk took off in my direction. It got about half way to me and veered off to it's left and headed up into the tree behind me.

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

When I started walking I didn't even pass the squirrel because I didn't want the hawk thinking I was a threat to it's grub. I went to the other side of the street.

When we first bought our house in FL, no one had lived there for about a year or so beforehand and apparently a couple of hawks had set up shop in our backyward. We lived on the Intracoastal and one day I walked down to our dock and sat on the bulkhead talking to my father on the phone. Next thing I know, it felt like a 2x4 had just struck me on the back of the head. My sunglasses flew off my face and down onto the dock, and I looked up to see this guy fly off into the distance a little, then circle around and fly back to his nest about 50 yards behind me. I swear he was making eye contact with me the entire time.

A few weeks later, another one buzzed Romo as he was cutting the grass in the backyard.

They're scary MFers.

Sounds like a bit from Condor Camera.

Horrible

Yeah, I kind of egret posting that

It wasn't a cardinal sin or anything.

You toucan stop it now

This conversation has taken a tern for the worse.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

:BirdChat: activated.

Sump-pump: Whatchagot?

Can we go back to :BabyChat:?

 

[General Malaise]

I think I stared death in the eyes today.

I was walking back from the Dr's office and wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me for a moment. This was because something in the front yard of the house I was passing had drawn my attention. As I redirected my focus back to the sidewalk / direction I'm going, about 5 sidewalk squares in front of me is something in my path.

As I'm muttering to myself, 'WTF is that' the something starts to move.

I stop dead in my tracks as the next thing I know I'm staring eye to eye with a hawk who appears pretty pissed off that I'm interrupting its squirrel breakfast . Then the hawk, at most 10 feet in front of me, spreads its wings and just stands there looking at me. This thing was hugegantic. Its wingspan was as wide as the sidewalk. After about 3 seconds of stare-down the hawk took off in my direction. It got about half way to me and veered off to it's left and headed up into the tree behind me.

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

When I started walking I didn't even pass the squirrel because I didn't want the hawk thinking I was a threat to it's grub. I went to the other side of the street.

When we first bought our house in FL, no one had lived there for about a year or so beforehand and apparently a couple of hawks had set up shop in our backyward. We lived on the Intracoastal and one day I walked down to our dock and sat on the bulkhead talking to my father on the phone. Next thing I know, it felt like a 2x4 had just struck me on the back of the head. My sunglasses flew off my face and down onto the dock, and I looked up to see this guy fly off into the distance a little, then circle around and fly back to his nest about 50 yards behind me. I swear he was making eye contact with me the entire time.

A few weeks later, another one buzzed Romo as he was cutting the grass in the backyard.

They're scary MFers.

Did Romo spend the next few months learning to fly so he could fly up there and buzz him just a bit better?

 

[UOFI_316]

That sucks GB, my sump pump is running every 30 secs. If we lose power I'm sunk.

No backup?

No. Looking into one...... run around $400 for something decent. I need to do this soon.

I bought the Watchdog brand backup sump and battery for around $350. make sure if you get this one to re-adjust the float levels so both backup floats are above the main floats. They ship it in the wrong configuration. Also a backup battery only lasts for 8 hours of run time, even with mine I fear if I am not home during a weekend of heavy rains it could fail and kill the battery.

Stryker and Shuke, if the water is coming in through a crack in the wall you can fix it from the inside, but it is best to do it from the outside so you are sure you have sealed it off.

First make sure your yard is sloping away from the house and there is nothing allowing water to collect against the foudnation wall (landscaping beds that hold water, downspouts...).

If it is a crack you can take an angle grinder or drill with grinding wheel and backcut into the crack, make it an inverted V, along the length of the crack. Clean out crack. Buy a tub of hydraulic cement. Mix up cement to a peanut butter consistency (do not mix with jelly). Lightly spray crack with water. Fill up your newly enlarged crack with cement mixture, make sure you get it filled all the way. Go drink beers.

The hydraulic cement expands as it dries, and can cure while getting wet. I had several cracks in the foundation wall when we moved in, after doing this to them there is only one small spot that gets moist when it really rains.

Total cost of fix: $100 including beer and a days worth of work.

If you can dig down outside you can inject an epoxy filler into the crack to seal it off that way. Doing the patch from the inside does not stop water from getting into the crack, so it can still find another way into your house.

Thanks. Everything I've read is that sealing it from the inside will just put water pressure at some other spot, though. I am guessing the crack is about 6 feet underground. Are we talking digging up the entire yard here?

I think I've talked about this before. I don't know if we are sitting on an uderground spring or what. But if the power goes out for about 8-12 hours, water starts coming up THROUGH THE FLOOR.

Yes, but if you can do a pretty good job of sealing up the crack from the inside, and then diverting as much water on the surface away from the house you shouldn't have anymore issues. You can probably get away with only digging a 2' wide trench along the house for the length of the crack, the cut side can be shored back against the house with some plywood and 2x4s.

You can also pay people to do the epoxy injection from the inside and they claim it completely seals the crack since it expands into the crack as it cures. Only way to be 100% certain the crack is filled is to expose it from the outside.

Is your basement lower then the rest of the neighborhood (full basement versus split level)? You may just be into the water table during rainy periods.

 

[EYLive]

I think I stared death in the eyes today.

I was walking back from the Dr's office and wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me for a moment. This was because something in the front yard of the house I was passing had drawn my attention. As I redirected my focus back to the sidewalk / direction I'm going, about 5 sidewalk squares in front of me is something in my path.

As I'm muttering to myself, 'WTF is that' the something starts to move.

I stop dead in my tracks as the next thing I know I'm staring eye to eye with a hawk who appears pretty pissed off that I'm interrupting its squirrel breakfast . Then the hawk, at most 10 feet in front of me, spreads its wings and just stands there looking at me. This thing was hugegantic. Its wingspan was as wide as the sidewalk. After about 3 seconds of stare-down the hawk took off in my direction. It got about half way to me and veered off to it's left and headed up into the tree behind me.

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

When I started walking I didn't even pass the squirrel because I didn't want the hawk thinking I was a threat to it's grub. I went to the other side of the street.

FBG wisdom suggests protecting yourself with a trash can lid, pink batting helmet, a broom stick and butterfly net during your next walk.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Sorry to derail basement chat, but this commercial is friggin hysterical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I03UmJbK0lA&feature=player_embedded

 

[EYLive]

Name your favorite types of pumps. Go.

Fist

 

[General Malaise]

I think I stared death in the eyes today.

I was walking back from the Dr's office and wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me for a moment. This was because something in the front yard of the house I was passing had drawn my attention. As I redirected my focus back to the sidewalk / direction I'm going, about 5 sidewalk squares in front of me is something in my path.

As I'm muttering to myself, 'WTF is that' the something starts to move.

I stop dead in my tracks as the next thing I know I'm staring eye to eye with a hawk who appears pretty pissed off that I'm interrupting its squirrel breakfast . Then the hawk, at most 10 feet in front of me, spreads its wings and just stands there looking at me. This thing was hugegantic. Its wingspan was as wide as the sidewalk. After about 3 seconds of stare-down the hawk took off in my direction. It got about half way to me and veered off to it's left and headed up into the tree behind me.

I think I stood there gaping at the thing like a slackjawed yokel for about 30 seconds

When I started walking I didn't even pass the squirrel because I didn't want the hawk thinking I was a threat to it's grub. I went to the other side of the street.

FBG wisdom suggests protecting yourself with a trash can lid, pink batting helmet, a broom stick and butterfly net during your next walk.

Nah, what he SHOULD have done is trap the hawk in a brown paper then take it with him to the ER. :sharkmove:

 

[Bogart]

COlin, I thought you were working on drinking less?

Then again, I'm days and hundreds of pages behind.

 

[General Malaise]

Name your favorite types of pumps. Go.

Fist

1.01 F**K ME PUMPS!

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