water in footings? what best to do?

[mattysupra]

hi, bricky coming in the morning and we have had loads of rain!

The footing (filled with concrete) are about 20cm deep in water. Whats the best way to deal wiith this? guess i can get a bucket and empty but how dry do they need to be before he can start laying bricks?

Is it a case of waiting for it try ? Almost impossible with U.k weather LOL.

thanks.

 

[JohnD]

An Aquavac is very handy for that sort of job

edit. sorry, you said 20cm

200mm

about 8 inches.

need some kind of pump. your local hire shop will have one. These footings are below ground level in a trench, I suppose?

 

[mattysupra]

An Aquavac is very handy for that sort of job

edit. sorry, you said 20cm

200mm

about 8 inches.

need some kind of pump. your local hire shop will have one. These footings are below ground level in a trench, I suppose?

Hi john, yes the footings are below ground level and to make it worse at the bottom of a hill

Guess a simple pump from the hire shop then.

cheers.

 

[JohnD]

if it's a hill, could you dig a small drainage trench, just about level with the top of the footings (to avoid undermining them)?

or is there no lower ground?

otherwise move to south hants

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[mattysupra]

cant dig a trench as the land is lower.


O and cheers for the weather report!



We have severe weather warning. Getting 1cm per hour here!

 

[theoldun]

Dial 999, ask for fire and explain position.
If they won’t come out, then throw 50mm pump in trench and get water level down to bottom of pump.
Dig sump hole down side of trench, throw pump in sump hole, keep sweeping last 25mm water round to sump hole until all water is out.
Don’t worry about top of founds being bit wet, bricklayer will get over it.
We normally wear a frog mans suit and snorkel, but then again we like to do things the hard way.

old un.

PS. Just read your last post, suggest you buy bricklayer umbrella.

 

[hotrod]

cant dig a trench as the land is lower.

This is why the retaining wall needs to be detailed as per the french drain detail with pipe bedding / perforated pipe that freddy put up originally to allow the "trench" to drain.

You can build of a damp footing but you will obviously need to get rid of the standing water somehow. Have you got the correct working details now from your SE?

 

[ColJack]

of course you can dig a trench..
dig a hole deeper than the footings trenches, then dig a trench from that hole to the footings trench and the water will flow out of the footings trench and into the hole where it should soak away.. or at least it'll be out of the footings trench and somewhere you can get a bucket into..

 

[mattysupra]

thanks people.


How simple, dig a hole lower than the footings LOL. Cheers, i will do that in the mornings and stick a pump in there.


And yes i have the plans and the structural reports now along with how they want it "tanked" . God knows why they never supplied the structural reports before . I phoned them and picked up from them .

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

To get rid of all the extra soil from the drainage trench I would suggest easiest way would be to dig a large hole and bury it all.

 

[theoldun]

Good thinking Colonel, only problem, if water is 200mm deep he will have approx 2,400 litres water in trench. Would take days to drain away if ground bit clayey.
old un.

 

[theoldun]

Tried that Hugh, don' work, we did not have enough spoil to fill the hole that we dug. Had to import in another 20 tonne eight legger best quality top soil. Cost a fortune. Forgot who gave me that tip. Wern't you by any chance was it?
old un.

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

Not guilty i'm afraid. It was a tip from one of our friends from the Emerald Isle.

I was fetching and carrying to earn a crust after leaving school, before being promoted and let loose on a JCB 805. After getting to grips with the beast, my instructions were to dig a big hole to bury a large heap of spoil we needed to get rid of....

 

[jeds]

Fill a hose pipe with water. Stick one end in trench and the other down the nearest drain. Make cup of tea. ok, several cups of tea. Old trick I learnt when I was six years old at school. The rest of you must have been away that day.

 

[noseall]

We hire puddle pumps for this kind of flooding and do as has been said which is to dig a collection sump and pump it out. You can then broom the standing remainder into the sump.

Don't forget cement loves water.