Water from beneath basement slab

[Mike Lamb]

I looked at a 1950's house a few blocks from my own. Water is bubbling up through the basement slab during heavy rains. Very unusual and not something the neighbors experience as far as I know. It is not sewage related. Must be an isolated high water table.

Waterproofing thoughts?

[Marc]

Can you drain the footing to daylight?

Marc

[Stephen Lagueux]

An interior perimeter weeping system and a sump pump could be an option, if possible....

[John Kogel]

The perimeter drains are plugged up. Probably concrete or clay tiles, full of dirt and roots.

If there are downspouts hooked up to the drains, all that water is coming off the roof.

[Mike Lamb]

An interior perimeter weeping system and a sump pump could be an option, if possible....

Something like that is probably the only option here if he wants a dry basement.

[Tom Raymond]

The perimeter drains are plugged up. Probably concrete or clay tiles, full of dirt and roots.

If there are downspouts hooked up to the drains, all that water is coming off the roof.

1950's suburban house, too early for orangeburg?

[Mike Lamb]

I had to Google Orangeburg. http://www.sewerhistory.org/articles/co ... geburg.htm

Not a sewer issue. It's ground water. House has no foundation drain tile. They did not do that around here until about 1960. Roof water goes into yard via gutters and downspouts.

[Tom Raymond]

I asked because one summer I replaced all the orangeburg on a block. Every house had 3" pipe from the downspout receivers to the 8" storm sewer. All of it was orangeburg, only a couple inches below the sod.