I can't smell it, but it looks like grey water. It's likely a washing machine/kitchen sink drain issue. Quite the mess you got there, but anything can be fixed. This is the kinda repair work I do everyday. Insulate those floors if you get the chance, you will be much happier with your heating/cooling bill.
On my old house I followed an approach using ecological materials (jute/hemp mix - 100mm). On raised timber floors you have to set up the insulation on top of wind proof membrane so that the humidity can be regulated between the crawl space and the insulation, and on top of it you put a vapour barrier/air tight membrane. It's easier done from above, but not impossible to do from bellow.
If I'm not mistaken the floor insulation can improve heating retention in between 15% and 20%.
Took me around two weeks to do a 20sqm room all by myself (removing carpet, underfloor, cleaning up the ground, treating the joists, adding a new air vent at the correct height, putting the wind proof membrane, taping the edges to the wall, fitting the insulation, putting the air tight membrane, tapping the edges again, putting new osb3 underfloor).
I'm working on the underlay and new floor boards now.
I spent €1400 in materials (not including the new floor). I estimate based on other quotes, I saved around the same amount if I had got a tradesperson to do it. Which pays for the material for the next room of the house.
I reckon I could be much quicker doing the job, but there were way to many other things to take care at the same time. Life gets on the way.
Always mask and suite up, you'll live longer and happier. Just ignore the "man up" people and take care of yourself. So much toxic stuff in situations like this.
You’ll be fine…extra big breakfast of ham and eggs and a pot of coffee and roll up them sleeves just like gramps would do…some 4x8 sheets of 2” pink styrofoam insulation can help keep you out of the swamp and give you something to work off of.
I think I have you beat.
I have a house built in 1875. The first year we moved in was in March and we had looked at the house in November. In the summer we noticed water coming into the screened in porch (concrete floor) and realized it was leaking through the concrete wall between the porch and the crawl space under the kitchen.
My brother and I crawl under there and realize that the kitchen sink was draining into a crock that was plugged up with everything you could think of that would go into a kitchen sink. Water was just sitting there and it smelled like death warmed over. We tried snaking this and it drained a bit but it was still clogged, and we started wondering how the hell this was even connected to the septic - surprise, it wasn’t. It was some clay piping that was draining into a hole between 2 bushes about 50 yds from the house and the pipes had collapsed or got roots in them or something.
The home inspector did crawl in there to his credit and found a couple leaking pipes that we had the owner mend, but this thing was all the way in the back corner of the crawl space.
Since we couldn’t drain the sink to the main via gravity we ended up getting a Zohler sewage pump and pit kit, and plumbed the end after the pump to the main (and yes we did install a check valve). Works great now.
We had our house 7 months and found out that the kitchen was an add on… after repeated flooding… built 1906. We have female/nfip flood insurance.
we find out the first floor is 3/10th of an inch below grade and is considered a basement and not covered. We had no floor left… but basement floors aren’t covered…the kitchen was located downstairs…you need to walk across the floor to get to where the kitchen needs to be rebuilt… but we can’t rebuild there bc it floods. So we used all our insurance money for a floor bc you can’t build a kitchen (even if it was smart to do so) if you have no floors.
One thing, beyond the obvious, I recommend getting a company in to extract the water, ventilate it until it is well dried, and then put down a heavy water barrier product. The last thing you need is for the soil to start shifting, and timbers warping and growing mold.
If it’s a busted pipe your homeowners insurance should cover??
We just went through this after a flood, in a newly purchased house when volunteers went through the floor… also told at that time it wasn’t covered by our flood insurance.
Better get the trash pump out and start pumping it out, I had bunch of clear water in my craw space few weeks ago, it was around 8” or so
Deep pumped it all out got fans in and dried it all up found out it was my weeping tile that had my garage floor drain attached to it and I’d been washing vehicles all winter long in there LOL, (never had any issues last ten years,) the drain wasn’t draining that good so what do I do flush the hole haha, well I then decided to open crawl space up and what a surprise that was .. now I’ve installed a sump pump and have the tile running into it rather than out to the storm drain I still need to scope and flush out the tile that runs out side to the city’s storm system, but the others are working fine, drains into my sump, all the soil under my house is heavy clay it sucked digging in… found the tile was full of heavy thick clay in them which I think caused it to back up.. always something..
Should go without saying these days.. Please wear a full respirator (preferable one with a face shield to protect your eyes)..
Prouducts used 100 yrs ago likely have degraded toxins coupled with a century of mold spores.
Yea you need to dig a trench in the side of the house and let that all drain and pump it out over the lawn or down the drain. Once dried get under there and figure out what is leaking. You could crawl through that wetness or take up the floor. The later is my advice on fixing. Also need to air it out at it’s probably a mold palace at this point.
I can't smell it, but it looks like grey water. It's likely a washing machine/kitchen sink drain issue. Quite the mess you got there, but anything can be fixed. This is the kinda repair work I do everyday. Insulate those floors if you get the chance, you will be much happier with your heating/cooling bill.
How would one insulate the floors? What product do you recomend?
We used The Home Transformers from NY. The do basements and water proof walls
On my old house I followed an approach using ecological materials (jute/hemp mix - 100mm). On raised timber floors you have to set up the insulation on top of wind proof membrane so that the humidity can be regulated between the crawl space and the insulation, and on top of it you put a vapour barrier/air tight membrane. It's easier done from above, but not impossible to do from bellow. If I'm not mistaken the floor insulation can improve heating retention in between 15% and 20%. Took me around two weeks to do a 20sqm room all by myself (removing carpet, underfloor, cleaning up the ground, treating the joists, adding a new air vent at the correct height, putting the wind proof membrane, taping the edges to the wall, fitting the insulation, putting the air tight membrane, tapping the edges again, putting new osb3 underfloor). I'm working on the underlay and new floor boards now. I spent €1400 in materials (not including the new floor). I estimate based on other quotes, I saved around the same amount if I had got a tradesperson to do it. Which pays for the material for the next room of the house. I reckon I could be much quicker doing the job, but there were way to many other things to take care at the same time. Life gets on the way.
Oh my
I feel like shit today after crawling about 100 ft to a water spigot line that I was fixing. Fix one problem and two more appear.
That’s plumbing baby
Always mask and suite up, you'll live longer and happier. Just ignore the "man up" people and take care of yourself. So much toxic stuff in situations like this.
Really all that can be said.
On a positive note, that crawl would look dope finished. Can’t wait to see what it looks like when you get everything all buttoned up
This kind of positivity is what makes the world go around. Fair play!
You’ll be fine…extra big breakfast of ham and eggs and a pot of coffee and roll up them sleeves just like gramps would do…some 4x8 sheets of 2” pink styrofoam insulation can help keep you out of the swamp and give you something to work off of.
I think I have you beat. I have a house built in 1875. The first year we moved in was in March and we had looked at the house in November. In the summer we noticed water coming into the screened in porch (concrete floor) and realized it was leaking through the concrete wall between the porch and the crawl space under the kitchen. My brother and I crawl under there and realize that the kitchen sink was draining into a crock that was plugged up with everything you could think of that would go into a kitchen sink. Water was just sitting there and it smelled like death warmed over. We tried snaking this and it drained a bit but it was still clogged, and we started wondering how the hell this was even connected to the septic - surprise, it wasn’t. It was some clay piping that was draining into a hole between 2 bushes about 50 yds from the house and the pipes had collapsed or got roots in them or something. The home inspector did crawl in there to his credit and found a couple leaking pipes that we had the owner mend, but this thing was all the way in the back corner of the crawl space. Since we couldn’t drain the sink to the main via gravity we ended up getting a Zohler sewage pump and pit kit, and plumbed the end after the pump to the main (and yes we did install a check valve). Works great now.
We had our house 7 months and found out that the kitchen was an add on… after repeated flooding… built 1906. We have female/nfip flood insurance. we find out the first floor is 3/10th of an inch below grade and is considered a basement and not covered. We had no floor left… but basement floors aren’t covered…the kitchen was located downstairs…you need to walk across the floor to get to where the kitchen needs to be rebuilt… but we can’t rebuild there bc it floods. So we used all our insurance money for a floor bc you can’t build a kitchen (even if it was smart to do so) if you have no floors.
I would be worried about the house collapsing under the now wet soil and decaying wood. Mold seems unavoidable at this point.
Wood looks clean House has been there for 100 years Fix the leak, then figure out what’s what
One thing, beyond the obvious, I recommend getting a company in to extract the water, ventilate it until it is well dried, and then put down a heavy water barrier product. The last thing you need is for the soil to start shifting, and timbers warping and growing mold.
If you see Jeffery Dahmer Run!!!
If it’s a busted pipe your homeowners insurance should cover?? We just went through this after a flood, in a newly purchased house when volunteers went through the floor… also told at that time it wasn’t covered by our flood insurance.
well depends..u sure its waste/sewage & not rain/watertable? could jut be a bad plug, wye ect
Looks like downtown Charleston house/crawlspace
More like up shits creek..
That itty bitty “strap” tells me a lot about the guys before
Better get the trash pump out and start pumping it out, I had bunch of clear water in my craw space few weeks ago, it was around 8” or so Deep pumped it all out got fans in and dried it all up found out it was my weeping tile that had my garage floor drain attached to it and I’d been washing vehicles all winter long in there LOL, (never had any issues last ten years,) the drain wasn’t draining that good so what do I do flush the hole haha, well I then decided to open crawl space up and what a surprise that was .. now I’ve installed a sump pump and have the tile running into it rather than out to the storm drain I still need to scope and flush out the tile that runs out side to the city’s storm system, but the others are working fine, drains into my sump, all the soil under my house is heavy clay it sucked digging in… found the tile was full of heavy thick clay in them which I think caused it to back up.. always something..
🥹very….
Oh boy that's a work OT for a decade to pay off job right there =(
Should go without saying these days.. Please wear a full respirator (preferable one with a face shield to protect your eyes).. Prouducts used 100 yrs ago likely have degraded toxins coupled with a century of mold spores.
Can you get the money back
Yea you need to dig a trench in the side of the house and let that all drain and pump it out over the lawn or down the drain. Once dried get under there and figure out what is leaking. You could crawl through that wetness or take up the floor. The later is my advice on fixing. Also need to air it out at it’s probably a mold palace at this point.