Under Slab Plumbing Floods
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
- We had a mini disaster earlier this week, a flash flood came out of nowhere and flooded my under-slab plumbing.
That morning the plumbers had started installing the drain lines.
I had measured out and put strings to mark all the locations of the interior walls-this way the plumbers can see where to stub up the pipes so that they’re in the walls.
Here you can see where they brought up a 2” pipe out of the main 3” line for a bathroom sink.
They primed and glued all the fittings and then used a torpedo level to make sure the pipe would be plumb.
Next, they bedded everything with crushed stone, the stone keeps the pipe from settling and holds it in place, so we maintain our ¼” per foot fall.
I had set-up an inspection for the next morning, so we filled all the pipes with water for a hydrostatic test.
And I’m so glad we did because I think it would have all floated out of place and been destroyed if we hadn’t.
Right as we finished up, we got some of the hardest rain I have ever seen.
I had covered the sewer sleeve with a piece of plywood and a tarp, but water still came through and flooded the ditches.
Thanks to my Milwaukee pump- I had it cleaned out 5 hours later and passed my inspection the next morning.
Let me know what’s the worst weather-related jobsite disaster you’ve seen? @hausplans
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We had just finished installing a roughly 2000'-2500' irrigation system at a customers house. Customer was very specific about not wanting to see any pipes, wires, etc. All fine, anywhere that we need to chase across a staircase or something, I used copper as that was a good compromise for the customer. Well about 1 week after we finished, a massive windstorm came through and knocked down 10 or so trees on their property. You should have seen the jungle of pipes, wires, and valves hung up between all the exposed tree roots. We did such a good job installing it, that despite all that abuse, only a couple of fittings broke. Made the cleanup for us and the arborist pretty interesting, with pipes pinching/pulling limbs and all that fun stuff
Crazy
Hopefully you got paid in full before the storm.. & took his insurance claim cash for the re-pipe.
@garycasper2929 he did pay in full about 2 days before the storm hit. And yes, we worked with the insurance company to make sure our client was taken care. They actually ended up with a nicer property by the end of the season. We were able to fully remove most of the root systems from the trees that fell, and depending where they were we flattened the earth and laid sod and planted more trees and made his wife her dream garden and put in an interlock patio. Once they paid their deductible, we didn't need to bill them for the rest of the season. So it was actually a win-win, once the pain and agony of the first few days was over. When we showed up after the storm, we had a chuckle with the client about how he was so picky about not seeing any "ugly black pipe" and how now it was all strung up about chest to head height around his entire property.
I work in the irrigation field and I definitely know the struggle of getting 1” and 1 1/4” through tree roots…
@verderame909 at least the second time around there were less routes to contend with. LMAO
I was doing a 500 sqft addition to my home back in ‘05. There were no weather apps back then, but the weather looked fine and this was the day to cut the eves off the back side of the existing structure of which I had already removed the stucco, black paper, and shearing, leaving bare frame work and insulation. The framing to the new structure was in place and the next step was installing the trusses. I worked swing shift back then, so after cutting the last of the eves off I went to work. The plan was to start erecting trusses early the next morning. But later that evening, a quick storm blew in from nowhere and dumped over an inch of rain in less than 30 minutes. My base plate was overflowing and all that water was back flowing into the house from under the exposed walls and the existing insulation was soaked because all the water flowing off the roof dumped into the exposed wall without eves. What a mess. Anyway I remember I had left work early and rushed home. When I got there, all my neighbors were there with shop vacs and my wife was leading a group that were filling sand bags. The sand bags were plastic grocery bags which for some reason we seemed to have plenty of. I used my sawzall to cut a trough in the base plate to dump all that water out. Even though it was a mini disaster, we got through it, the wood dried, and we’re still here today. I learned that I had great neighbors who came without calling. It brought a tear to my eye just thinking about it now. Thanks for the memories.
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That’s so awesome that your neighbors helped out👍
In 1987, my dad and I were working in the basement of a powerhouse in upstate New York. It was winter, and there was a doorway nearby, so cold air is constantly being let in. Off in the corner is the supply line with a big valve for the fire sprinkler system. We came into work to find that the valve froze and split overnight, spraying water everywhere and almost flooding the whole basement. The ice was feet thick in places, everything caked in ice. It was amazing.
I took 3 days to get it cleaned up and install a new valve.
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Just finished framing a two story house. Two days Hurricane Laura can through and relocated it for me. At least i had a clean slab to start back with!
😮😮😮 well you got a few extra days of work on that job huh. But the good thing is you already knew exactly how to frame it
@@christopherdunn6198 hahahahaha
Concrete pour for a candy warehouse. We were doing 30,000 square feet in a day. It had rained the night before and it was a slot pit. We said we weren't going to pour but the super wouldn't let us not. It was so bad we wound up dragging the concrete trucks out so they left ruts which had to be filled. It took A huge amount of extra concrete too make up for that. The super even signed off on it in writing before we started the pour.
2 years later they came back to us because what do you know? One section of that floor was sinking. The overhead racks were starting to tilt inward. And it was just that one strip. What do you know about that. Glad company I worked for still had the paperwork from that
Smart to get it in writing.
@@hausplans We weren't going to put a single yard down until he signed off on it. We 100 percent knew it was wrong, and would never have done it other than a super who was going to basically boot us off the job if we didn't. A good super will always at least listen to their subs.
Nice lol
Wow, the rare triple negative... 😮
We had just finished framing a house in the middle of a drought in MS. Just happened the be a bushfire start in the area. Entire house burned down before anyone even noticed because it was out of the way. Broke my heart for the family that commisioned it. They had just pulled themselves out of a bad situation and they were super kind folk.
I did flips for 20 years. We had just finished a complete condo and were bringing staging furniture that morning. When we showed up the neighbor had towels and buckets lining his side, turns out the illegal plumbing that i told the boss we should replace broke! And flooded ours and neighbors! Cost me 125$ to fix the plumbing, AFTER tho! That boss was horrible, i later did my own flips and made 20% above comps on every single flip after. Retired at 38....
I was the PM on a new home build, went to the site for the daily inspection 25 miles from the shop…,the block layers were just finishing up the garage walls and footings, about 5’ high…the hoe operator was told to backfill only up to the edges but not against any walls…I had left and was back at my desk when the equipment operator was in my doorway…he had knocked over the entire perimeter block….I was stunned as he knew better, more stunned that this was going to kill the schedule…and pissed that I had to do a massive cleanup…I went back to the sight and was going to dig it all out that evening only to find two flat tires on the backhoe…I grabbed a shovel, and trowel, dug out every bit, scraped the block clean, stacked it all, and called the block layers back for the morning…the crew saw it happen as it was 3:00 in the afternoon in March so daylight was limited anyway…they saw what I’d done that evening and no one ever said a thing!….we stayed on schedule!…
You sound like an awesome worker, good for you👍👍
I watched this on local city council TV. Heavy rain caused a flood control fence to fail the same morning that a compliance inspector happened to be there. The contractor was working the problem while someone was going to the supply house to get materials for the repairs. The inspector fined them because rule stated that damage must be “repaired immediately”. Apparently being in the process of repairing was not enough for her.
Crazy
Selfridge air national guard base, I was an apprentice building on one of the aircraft hangers with my journeyman during a really cold winter. Someone screwed up somewhere and a hangar the size of four or five football fields was flooded 3ft deep with water and it froze in the -20 temps that night. Came in to everyone losing their minds the next day.
That’s crazy!
@@hausplans I think it cost them into the hundreds of millions to dig up and replace the floor and whole substructure of the hangar.
If you could only see Selfridge now. It’s a ghost town and is aging lol
@@nousernames444 just like all our infrastructure that we could have repaired with the Ukraine money.
@@joemadre9550 military bases arent infrastructure.
it wasnt weather related but i seen something similar where i was working at a new ice skating ring being built and when they started pouring the concrete all of the plumbing floated to the top. They were chipping concrete for literally weeks
Brick/block retaining wall blown out from a dirt wash.
Built a 50ft long 3.5ft tall wall one day. Went home, sunny day all day long...from where i was at.
Small powerful storm came through when i left and the wall was washed out the next morning.
Never saw a trace of rain or storms
Oh man, I hate stuff like that! Super frustrating!
Had the exact same experience with almost the same size wall. Was a real bummer to have to redo it. But a good lesson learned. Never underestimate the power of water and always prep for it.
@hausplans you know it. Big time bummer.
You mentioned on one video where you got those rebar caps. I can't ever find them that cheap. Do you have the link to them?
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Looks like the rain washed out under rhe foundation... Weather/nature is amazing..
No, that’s actually where I dug under the foundation for the waterline sleeve. It’s actually below the footing.
"The flashflood came out of nowhere" 🤣🤣🤣
I had a tract home built in 2003. After moving in the basement never seemed to dry out. We checked the sump pit, and all 6 window drain lines. When they were putting in the pea gravel for the basement floor, they filled all the 4” window drainage tile with pea gravel. They then needed to vacuum it all out, when that was done, everything worked properly. It’s 20 years later and everything works fine, no basement water problems, good builder.
I was on a compressor station job in North NJ. We got 14 inches of water in the office building. We had pump's running but we also had a power outage and the basement flooded. The building was built 14 feet into the ground because they were not allowed to go two stories up.
Holy cow getting along with the plumbers and inspector
F250 still looking good in the backgrounds
The headlight worked well so I could see what I was doing finishing up, appreciate you watching the channel!👍
I was working in a crawlspace at a house in Rochester, NY. We ripped the floor out and were replacing the floor joists because of a flooding crawlspace due to water runoff and foundation issues. It rotted the floor joists and seal plate in a 20' center section of the house on the back wall. That night, we got 3" of rain overnight. When we showed up the next day at the job site, the back wall of the house had collapsed into the house, and the roof was sagging in the middle of the house more than 6" over 40'. The house was at the bottom of a hill, so we had a company come in and put in 3 different tiers coming down the hill of perforated underground water runnoff lines to protect the house along with one connected directly to the house. We ended up reblocking and pointed out the foundation, rebuilt the outside wall, seal plat, and rewired the entire house along with all new plumbing.
Middle Ga here. Built a house with a crawl space, used cinderblocks as the foundation, was a little bit of a hill. Had some super heavy rain come in. The flow of water ended up washing out the back wall and the foundation fell.
I was down in Willmington nc on the beach on a Friday. Ran 4 in sewer and water 200ft for a new 3 story home. Came back monday after a storm. Everything floated up and had to be redone. 🤦♂️😂🤷♂️
Looks like the new guy convinced you to let him do the plumbing
Hey!!! 😂🐶🦺
We always get rained in... the worst are when pads get washed since we hadnt compacted it yet... thanks for sharing👍
Thanks for watching
Yeah I had 400 ft of 12 inch aquatherm pipe float up on me just a couple weeks ago doing a chill water install at a school . We couldn't get it filled fast enough . Not to mention most of the ditches collapsed . Sandy Florida soil sucks sometimes .
I worked at a concrete plant, and a combination of heavy rain and a bulk hauler driver not paying attention while he was hooking up to the silo created a situation where the drain in the yard ended up plugged with a solid slug of sand and cement powder during a historical rainstorm. We ended up with 2' of water in places. We had to make pickup hoses for the onboard water pumps on the ready mix trucks to pump water off the ground and into the drums, at a rate of about 100 gallons per minute apiece. When you have ten acres of flooded yard, 100gpm doesn't feel like much.
Wow
Dang that suuucks. At least you didn't have any concrete you just poured when that happened lol
I bet it was that darn new employee wasn’t it. 🤣
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3 springs ago we had heavy rain on the hell hole house of that year. Anyway, lift ended up getting stuck in the mud. Then a truck attached to a lift then another truck attached to a truck attached to a lift. Had to get a crane out to get everything out of the mud.😢
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1984 . My uncle was a contractor. They had just got done putting all the insulation in a nice house just outside Winona . Missouri, it was a nice October day according to him but all of a sudden a storm approached. They didn’t think nothing of it until a large tornado came barreling through. Just before it hit They rushed to the basement of the unfinished home . It was hit dead on. He said EF4 damage was dealt to nearby finished homes although the tornado was officially rated an ef3.
Wow
I was a superintendent for a developer, we couldn’t get our stucco contractors to keep up, was a huge building boom. I kept calling corporate and said we needed to stop construction until the exterior was dried in. NOPE! Proceed with all homes. Monsoon came in, driving sideways rain, got past the tar paper and flooded about a dozen homes with cabinets and finishes. Was a disaster. People wanted out of their deals because they were afraid of mold.
Oh my gosh. What a disaster on so many fronts. Hopefully a lesson was learned by them (but probably not).
@@aaronbuckwalter96 turned into a huge mess because the owners weren’t letting the buyers back out of their deal. They wanted their escrow money back, he refused. I ended up with the news cameras in my face, accusing me basically of trying to kill old people (it was a 55 plus community) with black mold. I’m like, I just work here. I don’t control any of that. One of those real aggressive news reporters, all grilling me. I didn’t handle it well and looked like an ass on the news. lol
That’s one of the worst things I’ve heard of, they should’ve listened to you!
Sorry you had to go through that, that’s insane!
I was pouring a sidewalk. We were flipping the house. We kept losing our concrete. I realized that it had to be draining in the basement from the side of the house. Quick thinking, I ran outside and made a snowball. I stuck the snowball in the hole that was leaking concrete. It worked perfectly. Now we like to joke that I made a load bearing snowball. 😅
No flashing on windows of new house...first Georgia rainstorm every window leaked...🤯
Glad you got thru it all! 🎉
Wow, thanks
Torpedo level? We just call it a spirit level! 🇬🇧
Interesting
Worst job site disaster I ever saw was during a heat wave, believe it was Summer of 2009. We were building a new AutoZone and the Del Taco down the street starting running a 99 cent burrito special. The Porta-John was declared a natural disaster zone after that. Pretty sure FEMA was called in at the end of the week.
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One my dad’s friends was in a basement jackhammering. Came up for lunch and the house was gone.
Tornado wiped it out.
His lunch and 12 pack of beer were still there though.
I haven’t had anything really insane happen though.
Got to see about 7 miles of 12” pipe ditch and bury itself in some Sand dunes out in west Tx because of the Santa Anna winds. Contractor had to dig it out.
High winds broke a "door" cut into the wall to remove newspaper printing presses, a hole about 14' x 20' open to the Detroit River for unknown time. Everything was covered in ice and/or frozen solid and someone stole all the extension cords.
I hope the plumbers checked the fall on the pipe after the water was pumped out. Water can float the pipe causing backwards fall.
We double checked, nothing moved
@@hausplans Good deal. 👍
First floor walls had gone up on a new build. Proper bracing wasn’t done before framers left. Big storm the night after and all the first floor walls came down. Looked like the big bad wolf had come thru
Wow
Did a rough plumbing in a house some 15 years ago. Negative temperatures all day, every day. Regular pvc glue froze...
What happens to the building after it’s built and it rains again? Where does all that water go?
We now have gutters and the parking lot is graded away, so it’s no longer a problem
Well ya wait for it to dry and say there's a basement with framing going on. You pump the water out and continue work. Just really depends. Rains one thing wind is a whole nother beast..I'm a framer and I've framed 4500sqft homes. We had one job I remember and we had a skyjack. The literal lot was so rutted out with already built homes on the sides. I had to line and cut every hip in by measurement off my lines. The plumber knows i hope what I'm saying. Foundation was maybe 1" 5/8" out of square. This was a bi level pit home. In Midwest ks. I will say the Midwest style and vaulted ceilings is a disaster to even begin with if your using pre engineered trusses. That really was what the problem was. But omg it looked like a WW1 trench all around the house. Lol
We were framing a fire station in Freeman Mo in 2017, we got the walls up and half of metal roof done by Friday, about midnight severe weather showed up unexpectedly and tore down the building.
Got a call that the 4- 65 foot deep sump pits at the waste water pump station were over flowing due to heavy rains and where i live its a combined sewer system
That’s no fun
Smells like money? 😅😅
Flash flood came out of nowhere.... IT CAME FROM THE SKY SIR
Sunny day last June. Cored a 4" hole though a foundation for water line. Only accessible spot was on the low side of the house. As soon as the hole was cut it started pouring rain harder than ever and flooding the ditch and the hill side in minutes. Water was rushing from every direction through the hole flooding the unfinished basement. 1M+ home. I had to run find a piece of ply wood and block the hole and run again to get and set up the trash pump. Nightmare. But it happens.
150’ of a 355’ vinyl bulkhead blowout from extreme over wash before final deadmen, tie back rods, and back fill could be installed. Started off as a 70 degree morning, dropped to 32 degrees by 11 am, 70 mph wind gusts, sustained at 55 mph for 24 straight hours. Tore it all to hell. Still going to court over this 2.5 years later.
Man, that sounds insane!
5 hours later!? bro needs to get a new pump, i got a budget one from my local store that'll clear all that out in 20 mins and keep the incoming water out too lol
Damn crushed stone? I would never
As a plumber's apprentice years ago, we'd just finished a 2.5 bath house rough for the under slab plumbing. It stormed that night. The entire thing floated out of the ditch and got all misaligned. It was wild. The builder was supposed to bring a water trailer to fill it up but they didn't so it didn't get weighed down.
Wow
right now in Pittsburgh it's raining everyday while we are trying to put in footers and piers , never have I seen so much rain.
Frustrating
Hauled a 40 foot long by 25 foot wide 18 foot tall self built shed for a buddy to his new place, took 3 months to get all of the permits for me to pull it because he wanted me to do it, some rain in the forecast but it was supposed to slide by us. Trip was a 2 hour drive, one way, from central Illinois to Northish Kentucky. Freak lighting storm hit us as we were nearing a truck stop, we pulled in and pulled between 2 other heavy haul trucks, and waited it out in the building. Keep in mind..when we started there was about a 3mph southbound wind for most of the trip to the truck stop. 2 to 2.5 inch hail, 45 to 60 mph gusts, rain that flooded the parking lot within 3 mins of starting, and 4 tornados spotted around us as all 39 people hunkered down in the building.
I, along with my buddy and a few other truckers, stood outside the door to the bathrooms to keep an eye on our load(s) and give updates to those too afraid to take a peek. Storm lasted about 45 mins before it just stopped, like shutting off a faucet, and about 15 mins later the national weather service issued a tornado warning in our area. My buddy called the weather studio to tell them location and about the 4 spotted tornados as well as the direction they were last seen heading and within maybe 3 to 5 mins another national weather statement as issued that our area was mostly clear, severe storm risk alert, so we..mostly the truckers and my buddy and I went out to check out trucks and loads.
Out of the 17 big rigs parked only 2 were tipped and 2 more had broken windshields. Our load was ok minus one broken window on the back of the shed from the hail. We continued down the road, cautiously of course, until our exit 65 miles down the road. From there it was 89 miles of back roads and small towns, most of which knew we were coming and we had Sheriff escorts because of the big load, there were a few towns that got hit by the same storm along the way. A few houses half gone but mostly shingles and siding damage. After we finally got to my buddies new place we dropped the shed and we both took a nap in his new house.
Truck was a 1986 M35A2 (Duce and a half 3 ton) modified to haul sheds to combines and farm equipment. Trailer we used was a rented lowboy on its last leg. Truck served me very well until 2020 when I had to sell it to pay bills, I tried to buy it back later but he wanted 3 times what I both paid for the truck and the work done ($65,000).
Had that happen to me once covered it all up just showing top of pipe and whamo it flooded 😂called back and builder didn’t realize the house was built in the direct path of a low setting water vein/creek 😂
I dug foundation for 24x24 garage and we formed it and poured concreate. When we came to take forms off we had 2 scuncs stuck on outside in the hole
That sounds awful!
running 500' of stormdrains to a rain runoff (cant remember proper name of it. just a low spot for rainwater) for a 16 bed hospital in the middle of nowhere. got it set to grade, bedded it in for inspection (he couldn't make ut till next morning.) came next morning, it rain just enough to float it out of ground. since we had to start other parts of job, we didn't have as many guys today to redig and retrench, so it took them most of the morning to do it again, inspection was 'next day,' so we drove rebar into ground around pipe to keep it down. in case it rained (we were driving 2 hours eachway to get here at this point, no local babysitters). floated again.
by end of week, we could dig and retrench in a couple hours, and was burying all but the top of the (18 inch, i think) line. done it 4 times, did everything but drive piles and ratchet strap it down to bedrock. inspector saw what happened a couple times and said just bury it.
the best part? never rained during the day, sometimes not even cloudy, but got would get a 6 inch 1 hour cloud burst every night. was a wet year there.
Had about 3,000’ of curb and gutter and 6 storm drain structures get washed out in Pensacola Florida in a new subdivision I was doing. That was a fun one
I bet
Was building a dominos pizza out east of me, inspectors were not nice to “out of towners”. Anyway I was tasked with getting the gas main ran so we could fire heat, and get everyone else in to do the build out. I ran all the pipe but it was 10 degrees out and paint wouldn’t stick to steel, but couldn’t get an inspection without painting the pipe. Next day it snows 12”. I shoveled the roof and used a heat gun for the next 2 days to warm a section then paint, then dry it while being heated, (still in 10-15 degree days). Was brutal, couldn’t give me a temp pass and let me paint it when it opened in the spring anyway.
That’s wild
My whole shop yard is a weather related jobsite disaster 😂
We were building the 2nd floor lobby of a resort in downtown Orlando, this was going to be a slab on metal deck with a balcony on all sides, so interior stairs and elevators. The exterior supports for the temp handrails came up to finish floor height which was 6 inches above the concrete we had just poured. It's hard to describe but with all the welded steel around this concrete floor we essentially created a 25000 square foot bowl with no drainage in mind. Well a few days later we were hit with a surprise tropical storm that had strong enough winds to rip some of the roof panels off so it completely filled up this bowl we've created.
We spent a few days with a handful of laborers pushing water into an elevator shaft that had pumps running continuously since they couldn't work in that shallow of water.
This was at the Margaritaville Resort in Kissimmee.
I'm a plumber and we tied into a septic tank one time on a new construction and then that night there was a torrential downpour. We were actually done and we got a friend to call that morning that all the pipes came out of the ground. People tend to exaggerate so I get there and they were not exaggerating. We ran a 4-in PVC line out through the foundation Wall then continued about 30 ft through a pre-dog trench to the septic tank in the Yard. Well the septic guys who installed it a couple days before we ran our pipe. Forgot to fill it with water. So you take a 1500 gallon septic tank and add one night of torrential downpour and that turns into a septic tank that rises from the grave just like Jesus. The tank was sticking 4 ft out of the ground and our pipes were all barely hanging on to their glue joints about 2 ft out of the ground. That ended up going to court court a couple months later. I was absolutely floored when I found out what the homeowner paid for that septic system. All the receipts and everything were in the lawsuit. Initial quote for the septic system was $62,000. Final cost of the septic system was $89,000. Truckloads of topsoil brought in. 10,000 to build the road for the trucks to bring the topsoil in. That's like a homeowner's worst nightmare
watched a frame fall from wind it was unusually louder then you would think. It shook the block too.
I was 18 doing siding when lightning striked not 50 feet outside the building. At the time their was 2 electricians in the attic working with some conduit. They both had to be rushed to the hospital.
I feel like I learn something every video kudos to you jacc
I love that you said that, that’s our goal for people to learn. Thanks for watching!!
Just set trusses onto a new construction house. Tornado touched that evening and blew them all down into the house. Ruined some of the subfloor and put holes into the exterior sheeting
thank you for saying "plumb" most say level
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Love my Milwaukee pump
Me too!
My dad and uncle had just finished digging out a spigot that was leaking outside for the garden, and just as they were finishing up and had the pump down in there, massive downpour. Not only did it fill up the hole which was about 10 ft deep by 8 ft long and 4 ft wide In a matter of 30 minutes, it was filling up the hole faster than two pumps could pump out the water. I was only 12 at the time but someone came up with a genius idea to extend a 20-ft tarp over the hole which allowed them to pump everything out, fix the broken spigot and fill the whole back up that day. Naturally as soon as they were done the rain stopped and the sun came out😂
That’s planning ahead and being able to sleep safely through the storm quite literally.
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A residential neighborhood, still in its utility development phase, saw some 20" of rain and drowned a tracked excavator into the operator cab. The project was delayed 3 months, and it took 2 cranes to hoist the excavator out of the hole.
Flash floods always come out of nowhere, that's why they call them flash floods.
Can you guys please come to Connecticut to build my shop for me.. Guys like you and your crew are rare around here I promise
Saw an entire block of new constuructio "sticked up/framed up" houses, probably 15+ of them get hit by a microburst.. It took them all down and threw them everywhere. Crazy thing is nothing else was damaged in the surrounding areas.
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Had some guys big a pool very close to the back of a house and not use any shoring to support the sides, which is incredibly important here in Florida. One overnight rain storm and we get a call about a crack in an interior wall. The entire back half of the house sunk about 3 inches, cracking the slab, walls and ceiling. Homeowners ended up getting around 1.5 million suing the insurance company and a year later we did their pool behind a brand new house in the same place as the one our guys destroyed.
Crazy
Replaced a ton of lightning damaged electronics in a business building that had a gate and fixed the gate, before the insurance check came they took another hit and burned up at least half of the new stuff we put in
I work in the commercial new construction side. It only rains during our rough ins. And then we have droughts when the structure is enclosed. I have learned to rough in by staking pipe every 4’ and we only bed in the pipe with sand or gravel when we are backfilling. I’ve wasted too many days having to cut out and dig out plumbing because wet sand and gravel turns to mush at the bottom of the ditch.
That’s so true what you said about only rains during framing and rough in and then it’s totally dry once the house is leak proof
I had a basement cut get enough silt washed into it that I was knee deep in quicksand, trying to stake the house out for the footings to get dug.
Was using a mobile crane concreting a floorslab. The ground supporting the crane became saggy, consequently the crane toppled over . Catastrophe !!!.
I think EVERY plumber should be responsible for the local water table, every rainstorm, and every toilet that runs. Make THEM pay for all of it.
Then try to figure out why the AVERAGE age of a licensed plumber is 52 years old
Total MYSTERY
I've had type 2 manholes float up out of the ground and tip over as the whole caved in and it was chewed out by the water
Pearl Harbor red hill fuel tanks back in like 2013 I think the train that was in there was almost submerged under water due to severe rain, someone had voted an 8” hole for a 4” pipe the rain came and over the weekend it flooded out
Not weather related, but we were staining cabinets in a house all day bookshelves cabinets 3 story home stained all sorts of stuff. End of the day we pick up all the stain rags and put them in a bucket. Someone forgot to take out the buckets and left them in the living room. Next morning we're all waiting outside for someone to unlock the door. Soon as the door opened and the oxygen hit them rags BOOM! Ignited instantly we rushed in got the buckets and the rags that blew out of them and were lit all around the living room, got em all outside house was fine but we all had to go change our drawers. Remember take them stain rags OUTSIDE let them breathe dont put them in a bag they can ignite.
That’s crazy
Our entire 30000ish gallon fuel tank pit filled to the brim and overflowing with water. All the water in the surrounding properties flowed right where the tank was going which resulted in days spent pumping water back out of the pit. Made a huge muddy mess, slowed our progress, and a couple guys found themselves waste deep in mud but we got it done.
Passed footing inspection. Rained 4 inches over night . 7 ft below grade. Had 3 pumps running for 3 hrs before concrete trucks showed up. Bottom line a contractors main job is problem solving...
Very true!
Mine was small but a 72' sewer line. Had it all connected and laid and it was getting late so I stopped and went home. It rained and all the pipe popped up.
It was ok though because the plumber quoted 10k and I hired a couple of laborers and found a plumbers apprentice that would walk me through it. Total cost was 1000.00. Phuq plumbers
I went to do tile in a house that was almost finished. When i got to the jobsite a large pine the home owner wanted left had fallen in the middle of the house during a heavy rainstorm. The house was torn down and rebuilt.
Wow
Putting a massive 1000 square-foot edition off the back of the house got it all framed and got it all sheathed That night, the fucking skies opened up
Thousands of gallons collected on a roof when the drain collapsed and froze. Me only weighing 145 lb at the time was the lightest and most experienced on the crew got to wade in and clear ice and hold the drain open until the method was sorted and could swap out for a new guy once we lost about 500 gallons. While wading through it the roof was moaning the whole time. Not fun, and the safety line probably was a moot point with the volume of water. That’s my sketchy story off the top of my head, but there’s lots of runner ups
Well in buffalo we get about 8ft of snow per storm, and we get 2-5 big storms every winter, every year is its own shitshow.
I bet
2km's of newly installed1.5m diameter sewer line flooded with silt after 10 yearly weather event. Completely destroyed sandbag barriers.
Crazy, I bet that was a mess to clean up!
Easy to clean up just expensive!!!!! Jet truck if you don’t own one cost a ton per hour. Just had to do it myself on a bunch of 10”
Rocks to make sure they pipes don’t move that’s a new one
Milwaukee is da best, I just got a fastback 6 in 1 and love it
Love mine
We where working with a local excavation guy to pull out a 500 gallon inground propane tank and swap it to a 1000 gallon, got everything pulled, new tank in and cathode bags mounted and poly line run then left for the weekend with our excavation guy saying he’ll backfill it once he’s back from lunch, well it poured all weekend and we came back Monday to make sure everything was good and hook up the service to find the s.s. Propane tank floating in its very own little pond, guess our guy had a long lunch.
Not good
I had 200 acres of crops that flooded. And my entire garden . My barn had 5 foot of water . Real stinky water plus sludge . My well filled up with water and my driveway was under water . Had to use a boat to get out . 1993 .
Wow
I’m a plumber in SC and I deal with the same shit all the time
I was 16 maybe 17 doing roofing and framing. We had just finshed the metal roof three days a later a hail storm hit CT and we got paid by insurance to re do it
Right before Christmas in 2021 our job site was removing the gravel loader ramp in to the footprint of the building. We were supposed to be installing the footing drain along that wall the following Monday when we came back. The gravel ramp was holding the retaining wall, because when we came in the morning after the holiday, the wall was on top of the area we were supposed to be installing the drain, where they removed the ramp. Same job: a similar instance happened, but we hadn’t filled out pipes and our 6” truck was floating like a long, and having broke about every 2”,3” and 4” branch we had. Also same job: an entire floor of concrete form shoring collapsed on to the floor below.
I'm an electrician we had heat lightning hit the power lines when we were inside working on a power box
Had same thing happen doing septic tank & lech lines, but much worse it was El Niño flash flood in AZ 🌊
One time I seal coated an entire 25k sqft parking lot. Florida summer rain unpredictable as we left it started pouring and washed all our material away
Wow
A tornado hit a new housing community. They had just finished framing the first three houses. All three properties got reset to factory settings