My house is a split level with a walk out basement. The water pipe ran under the front lawn on the side of the house with the walk out basement.
The pipe was brought into the house from under the basement floor (towards the front end of the house). I think they sealed the hole in the floor , around the pipe, with concrete. At least that's what it looks like to me.
Right next to the basement wall the outside ground is about 3 feet high or so, and slopes down to basement floor level over several feet. So when they laid the pipe, they didn't have to go much under the basement floor level.
The problem is when we get long heavy rains. The water pressure under the house is forcing water up thru the floor; it comes in around the water pipe. It kind of just slowly seeps up and then just slowly spreads itself across the basement floor.
I don't know if the area around the pipe was improperly sealed & I'm quite hesitsant to try and break the floor around the pipe for fear of damaging the pipe.
I was wondering about relieving the pressure under the floor. Maybe I could dig out the sloping ground outside, where the water pipe comes in, down the where the ground is level with the basement floor and maybe lay a small PVC pipe that would extend out to where the sloping ground stops sloping. I was wondering if something like this would allow water building up under the basement floor to push thru the pipe and just empty out onto the lawn.
Any ideas/comments would be appreciated
thanks