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Feb 11, 2008 | 05:40 AM

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96sherm

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you know what... regardless of how cold it gets, i'm really enjoying saskatchewan just like i love the Rock. lots of variation in weather... keeps a person on your toes...

Feb 11, 2008 | 05:49 AM

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From: Delisle/Vanscoy, Sk.

Just one more month and it will start to warm up here and melt. Then get out and play with the toys time.

Feb 11, 2008 | 05:58 AM

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yep...and "try to keep the water out of the basement time", listen to the neighbors whine and complain because the water runs downhill...

Feb 11, 2008 | 10:39 AM

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That always amazes me, people build a house at the bottom of a hill or beside a river and then complain when their house floods.

Feb 11, 2008 | 10:40 AM

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Let`s hope it`s only a month more of winter, it`s supposed to be a cold spring and cool summer acccording to the long range forecast.

Feb 11, 2008 | 10:53 AM

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I just heard the same thing, I hope they are wrong.

Feb 11, 2008 | 12:36 PM

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well...they haven't really been right about the winter... we haven't got lots of snow yet. it really hasn't been that cold for more than a couple of days...

Feb 11, 2008 | 04:52 PM

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Thats why my house is on top of a small ridge. But my quonset is built in a low area near a slough in the neighboring property.
My one neighbor has his home built in a low area of their yard. They have no basement, but the yard is a soggy mess every spring and heavy rain shower.

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Feb 12, 2008 | 07:52 PM

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Where my house is right now its on a small hill type deal too. The place where Im building is pretty close so I wont have to worry about the water at all, hopefully.

Feb 12, 2008 | 07:57 PM

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It was really warm here today (+10 in the city) +4 on the mountain. The snow is nasty wet, gonna be like shoveling wet cement. Oh freaking joy...

Feb 12, 2008 | 10:02 PM

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my basement is below grade with the floor poured between the footings instead of over the footings which means i get water seeping up through the seam where the floor meets the footing. i might pour a 2 inch slab to make it right, but not certain on that yet...

Feb 12, 2008 | 10:21 PM

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Also weeping tiles are needed. Even on acreages now they want weeping tiles connected to your septic tanks. I put mine to a lower down drain, below the basement floor with crushed rock in a pit at the end of the hose.Put it about 20 feet from the house. It was acceptable. It is to help take water away fromthe foundation.

Feb 13, 2008 | 05:41 AM

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i'm afeared i don't have any weeping tile either, but i won't be tackling that any time soon. with the sump pumps in there its usually not too bad anymore... the first spring was a nasty suprise!!