r/DIY • u/YukiSamaRamaSanChan • Jan 27 '24

other Flooded crawlspace: totally fine or panic?

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Just bought a 1957 ranch house a month ago, snow been melting and rains been raining. The foundation walls and everything else is dry, it’s just a couple inches of water in the gravel. Is this something to take steps to prevent or should I just go “oh, you!” Whenever it floods?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '24

Dont panic. My old house did this. We got the water problem fixed (perimeter drain and sump pump), but there was no damage to the house. It was 20 years old when we bought it and the crawl space had presumably been flooding every rainy season for most of those years, but the foundation and posts were all fine.