Restoring A $7,000 Mansion: Building A Basement Water Removal System 

There will be corn stalks in the dining room......

I seriously concur 👍🏻

I have been subbed for 4 years I think.

Cole is a shining example of what a farmer an doin hid career!

As a son nd brother to two of my best examples of hard work! I just wish they were alive to se what coleas done!

So sorry for your loss

Bless your father for his service. Wishing your family peace and love.

Sorry for your tremendous loss. I appreciate his service, and sacrifice.❤

My condolences on his passing! 2 purple Hearts and a Bronze Star? Dude was a hero!

@@cathiwim My father went through some bad stuff he was a small group that went in and got downed pilots out from behind enemy lines no matter were it was Vietnam Cambodia Laos.

Shh... It will never get finished if they catch on ​@@spdodger

Well the old saying is those who can... do, those who can't... teach. So yes Cole could be a teacher some day.

He already is a farmer, What more do you need?

I hate to see each video end.

@@christinepoe1944I always find myself wanting just a little more video.

Its justin bud.

remember this is U.S and there they dont need washed or clean gravel as the rest of the world dose

Also they are in tornado alley. That basement could save their life.

@@laurel2453 most have both, inside and out. He has said several times now that he will be doing this on the outside as well. Every house with a sump pump has this or some form of this pipe on the inside, thats what feeds into the sump pit. Im not why you are confused why he has this on the inside.

@@warrenmichael918You are absolutely wrong. The water proofing is ONLY done on the outside. Sump pumps are only used when the basement is below the sewer line/ water table. If a house is below the water table that is when they will be the French drain on the inside and outside of the basement but they are connected together and have two sump pumps for the inside and outside drains.

@@warrenmichael918 Tell us you know absolutely nothing about sump pump installation... because everything you said was pure BS. Most houses with a sump pump pit has just that... a hole in the basement floor with a sump pump sitting in it.

@@Katie-fg8kc im not sure what the comments are doing because they are all mixed up together for me. Water proofing as in rolling on either tar or a sheeting is done on the out side, i agree and didnt say different. If youre calling drainage tiles waterproofing, they are most certainly done on BOTH the outside along the foundation and the inside under the floor. You and i are talking about 2 different things when i say a french drain i guess. Youre talking about french drains i guess that run into a sump pump and are being pumped out. Im saying a french drain is a drain that is totally free from having any pumps because there is enough fall or at a high enough level to flow out naturally, like Cole is doing. He has a naturally flowing drainage system in his basement that will flow through his drainage pipes and flow naturally without any pumping straight to the creek. His house is much higher than the creek so he is running a french drain. Maybe its called something different where youre from but thats what we call a french drain here.

@@benhur520 When did i say anything different? Cole has a sump pump pit and im sure he will put a pump in it. It probably will never run but it will be there. The comments are all mixed together for me on youtube tonight so i dont know what comment i made that makes you think i dont know what a sump pit is. Cole has a naturally flowing french drain tile system he installed on the inside of his basement floor and that will flow naturally out to the creek. Then he installed a sump pump pit, he didnt install it like most get installed because he didnt run his floor tiles into it. He is using that as a backup incase the perimeter tiles ever clog up, the water under the floor will seep into the pit and the pump will be used to pump it out. I assume he will pipe the pump up and out like a normal pump gets plumbed in also. The solid 4 inch line he ran from the pit will be his 3rd line of defense, if the perimeter tile fails, the pump gets the water, if the pump fails, the pit fills up and runs out naturally through the solid pipe out to the creek. There isnt anything wrong with any of what i just said now or in any other comments. I have installed several sump pumps in my life, retired LU 653 plumber here.

Those 2 guys are doing the work, Cole helps them, he hired them to do the job.

I hope you aren't taking notes of the many, many things they're doing wrong on this "restoration". This house won't last 10 years.

He said he is putting in a radon mitigation system, which most all basements in Iowa have.

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@@tamicoil7069By drills holes will allow radon gas to escape from the ground and find its way into the basement. You never drill holes in the basin for the sump pumps. If they needed holes in them, the company would have put them in.

@@Katie-fg8kc They didnt drill a hole where the outlet pipe goes at the factory and i bet they know it needs one there. Many people drill holes in their pump crock if they are gonna use them like Cole is. He isnt piping his floor tiles into the pit, he is usiong it as a backup overflow pit, to allow the water to seep in if the floor tiles get plugged up.

@@warrenmichael918 I get that, but the outlet pipe be connected to the actual sump pump. I haven’t seen one that ain’t like that. That is what floor drains are made for.

As a plumber the first thing you should of told him was to get the height of the septic tank so he know the height of the drain lines coming out of the house. I highly doubt that he can do system that ill be 10 feet deep if he plans on doing a basement bathroom. He need a pump system to handle that. Easy to do that know then later.

@@johnunsicker7440 If you see on the previous vidoes you can see they had a basement bathroom group with a w/c and a sink! i guess you didnt see that so i took that as going to be the septic tank depth! But if they can hang it off the floor joist would be even better but i dont know what is there code being that its gets very cold in there area. Oh by the way i think the septic would have to be below the frost level dont you think!

@@chesterkaczka6423 He has a big elevation change from his house to the back of his property, he will have enough fall to run his sewer out there and make whatever depth he needs i think. Not sure about his county and how they do their sewer systems. Like the guy above said though, if he needs any tests done , the earlier the better, even though it will be a while before he needs a septic system.

Why like when it done wrong?

Autoplay is the reason for people forgetting to hit like most of the time.. I now turn it off til I've caught up with my subscriptions and hit that like 👍

@@MartinJohansson-nn5dv if you think it is done wrong don't watch it.

I always hit the like button at the begining because i already know I'm going to enjoy anything Cole does. Absolutely love this family ❤

I agree!

But he's spending as if a new build, it's more about them knowing it's history (my guess)

That makes sense to me.

@MartinJohansson-nn5dv för 46 minuter sedan (redigerad) I dont know why all the North Americans dont use commen sense. In Sweden we put ALL our dranage pipes UNDER the footings of the foundation and on the OUTSIDE, then you got a dry wall. Maybe you think your roof gona leak so you get a swimmingpool in the basement and want to dranage that out. Dont forget the proper materials on the outside and get it ventilated. I dont know about your place but where i live the Muncipality have a Radon Map for all Muncipal where you can see if there is any Radon, i can borrow a gauge to messure if i want. If you dont have Radon i dont understand why spending time and money on that installation. Normal is to have the dranage pipes on the outside for water under the walls and then you have a normal 4 inch pipe around the house where you connect all pipes from the gutters on the roof and dranage that water far away from your foundation/house. Just think about what happend if you got a soil on the outside how is wet and you dont have the dranage at the lowest point, so now you have a water pressure from the higher level on the outside and gone pressure water in to your pipes and bec you put your dranage on the inside and high pipes you gona have wet floor all around the basement bec of your pipes. If you istall a pump you must figure it out that something with your construction is wrong and must correct it with a pump. Your France expert should ask him self where the water come from and where shall we stop it, doing all the works inside the house is like a temporary band aid for a bad constrution.

@@laurel2453 Yep, they typically use both: ribbed outside, smooth ridgid on the inside. I had mine redone years ago due to mold and that was the solution.

They stopped using the Cheap pipe that has the ribs on the inside. The good perf pipe has a solid inner wall. Im not sure what Coles pipe is though. His non perf tile looks like it is the solid inner but i cant tell yet about his perf tile.

We are gonna know how to do all this stuff plus how to think outside the box ,which is invaluable in this world 😅

For everyone that upvotes these generic comments, if you see a girl in a bikini it's a bot. Upvote a thoughtful comment instead. Hi Cole!!!

I bet he does run his pump line like that. The 4 inch gravity line from the pit is just there as a backup in case the pump fails and the pump is a backup for the floor tile he ran.

dang, Roman gets no love!

@@warrenmichael918 Roman is great at what he does to!

@@warrenmichael918 Roman is great at whatnhe does!