Recent content by spke711

The dehumidifier is pulling about 30 pints of water every 20-24 hours. This is within probably 400-500 sq ft of basement. Talking to other people who run dehumidifiers in their basements, this sounds normal. It's very humid/rainy this time of year where I live in Kentucky. Great advice on...

I'll check the miters when I get home today. I do have all doors shutoff to the basement. Going on day 3 of fans + dehumidifier (well day 8 if you count the 5 days that the damage mitigation service ran their fans and dehumidifier) and not seeing much of a change in the concrete. Which makes me...

The floor was wet for about 48 hours before everything got cleaned up. It has been nearly 3 weeks at this point since the cleanup happened and the floor was steam cleaned and sanitized. I didn't think about the sanitizer discoloring the floor. I think that's very possible, especially since it...

Does that really work? And are there any downsides to using baby powder other than the smell? I was able to borrow a 30 pint dehumidifier and rented some carpet fans from home depot. They're all running constantly in the basement now at hi speed. Hopefully that'll take care of the remaining...

The dehumidifier drained into my sump pump pit. I live in Kentucky and this time of year the outdoor weather has been 70-80 throughout the day with high humidity and lots of rain. AC has been on in the house due to the higher temps outside. That may be why this isn't drying as fast as normal...

Two weeks ago, I had a sewage backup in my basement. Plumber fixed issue, and damage mitigation service pulled up carpet/padding, steam cleaned and sanitized all surfaces, including the bare concrete floor. Probably 100-150 sq ft total...so it didn't even affect our whole basement. They left 4...