Job review from Cass in Stevensville, MT 59870 on 06/23/21

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Recommended by the floor drain system vender. Generally good reviews online. No spot to put comments about the product, so I will put them here. I wanted to wait until our first major irrigation before writing a review. The flood irrigation here is the main reason we have basement flooding. I needed to see how well these floor drains and water barriers were going to work before saying yea or nea on a survey. Well, last week the install and products got about as big a test as it is likely to see. With our June irrigation, we had heavy flows down the perimeter ditch for five days, with some constant light overflow into the yard four of those days. There was full on field flooding in the middle day (my day for the water), with 3-4" of standing water in the lawns around the east and south sides of the house for about 12 of the 24 hours. This is typical of the monthly irrigation here. For the last many years, this kind of event was the start of having 1-2" of water in the basement for the duration of the summer irrigation season. May irrigation primes the ground and we get a little flow into the basement. June is when the torrent hits. Not this time. The floor drains and vapor barriers did their job! I could hear the water pouring into the sump like a small creek and could see a good flow in the grated sections of the install. The 1/2hp pump was keeping up, but it got a work out on its duty cycles! There was some dampness in places in the basement floor: floor seams from the original construction and in the seams between the floor and the new concrete that went in over the drains. Very, very minor. Just damp spots and no standing water present. We have three more irrigation cycles coming up this season, but the May and June irrigation are usually where all the flooding problems start. (The May irrigation started the last day of the install.) I am now confident the drain system is going to handle it well. Thank you!