Water in the basement

[BikerNut]

Flooded Basement

I, too, live behind the Daley Curtain, so I was, like you, the unhappy recipient of Chicago's record-setting rainstorm. I got a foot of water in my basement. Totally ruined carpeting, furniture, etc.

But no wet guns! After storing my firearms in the basement for several years, I got tired of fighting the rust that permeates Illinois' hot/cold/hot/cold humid environment. So I moved the gun safe to an upstairs closet, and took the spare guest bed that was there and stored it in the basement.

The sewer-soaked guest bed was dragged out of the basement yesterday and tossed in the alley. But my guns slept quietly through the rainstorm.

There are few dry basements in the Chicagoland area. Move your gun safe to a better location.

If you don't have room, you can keep them at my house ;-)

 

[ilbob]

strangly dode requires sump pumps to be wired for gfi and i've redone several basements that flooded when the gfi tripped

I don't deal with residential stuff much but I asked some guys that do about this. it turns out that the code exception by which a sump pump did not require a GFCI was removed in the 2008 edition of the NEC.

I may have to actually get a copy of the 2008 code.

 

[GlowinPontiac]

Code only applies if your house is going to be looked over by a building inspector. Unless your planning on selling soon just change the GFI outlet to a regular one or just remove the outlet and plug and hardwire the pump.

You can always change it back if and when you decide to sell the house.