When they
finished the garage wall, I decided to do something about the cracks
in the garage floor. There were a few spots created by their work,
but most of it was natural settling and cracking. I had picked up
some Quickcrete crack filler and liesurely started filling in the
cracks when I had time. Not until we had four
days of rain did I realize this crack issue was serious.
The
first day the rain poured like mad for a few hours. After some
time, the water started to trickle its way into the one garage bay.
Not a big deal. Just some run-off. After four days of it
raining like mad, the ground has become so saturated, it's seeping
(almost rushing actually) up through the cracks in the floor.
At first when I saw all the water in the garage, I thought it
had run in
like the
first day. Upon further inspection I could see the water was actually
running out of the garage. It's source was this crack near the headwall of
the
garage.
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It came out of
the crack in the floor, then ran down along the wall. I
honestly don't know if I'll ever
completely fix it. I'll put
filler in the cracks that are big enough, but I guess some kind of
seal coat over the
entire floor would be the only complete
fix.
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This is a crack in our
"workroom" in the basement. The scary thing is to to think about
what other cracks
there may be under the carpet in the rest of
the basement.
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Little by little I've been working on the
crack. I pour in some Quickcrete crack filler. Let it dry a day or
so,
then pour in more.
It keeps seeping down the crack to who knows where. It's probably
slowly seeping into
the watertable and clogging up my well. I
got a little smart the other day and poured some sand in first.
That seemed to fill it up some before the filler went in. It's a
long and slow process that I'd like to end soon.
I'm tired of my garage being all
torn apart so I can get to the crack.
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