price914
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Hello plumbing gurus -
This may or may not be the appropriate forum for my question, but I gotta start somewhere. We're under contract to buy a raised-ranch house in Seattle, and had the inspection today. Lo and behold, there is water in small puddles in the garage (which we figured was due to the big rains we've had and the downsloping driveway with the supposedly clogged-by-leaves trench drain) AND also all the way into the basement rec room and laundry room. Carpet is soaked. No one living in the house but we figure it may have been like this for a week at least since there is only a small puddle in the garage now. Obviously more to it than a few leaves (as it appears this has happened before), but I have no idea what to expect as a reasonable remedy. It's a double car garage, but the drain is only on one side and appears to be concrete. I'd appreciate a best and worst case scenario, in the event we decide to go forward and the seller agrees to credit us the money or fix it. Thanks so much.
This may or may not be the appropriate forum for my question, but I gotta start somewhere. We're under contract to buy a raised-ranch house in Seattle, and had the inspection today. Lo and behold, there is water in small puddles in the garage (which we figured was due to the big rains we've had and the downsloping driveway with the supposedly clogged-by-leaves trench drain) AND also all the way into the basement rec room and laundry room. Carpet is soaked. No one living in the house but we figure it may have been like this for a week at least since there is only a small puddle in the garage now. Obviously more to it than a few leaves (as it appears this has happened before), but I have no idea what to expect as a reasonable remedy. It's a double car garage, but the drain is only on one side and appears to be concrete. I'd appreciate a best and worst case scenario, in the event we decide to go forward and the seller agrees to credit us the money or fix it. Thanks so much.