Have had plenty of rain of late in NJ. My basement positioned stove has been standing in some pooling water and I finally figured out where it is coming from. The stove has apparently heated up the cement floor to the point that some fracturing has occurred and I am getting seepage upward through those fractures. Should be an easy fix; slot the fractures open with a blade and fill them with an epoxy. 60 year old slab that was effected by a couple seasons of wood burning. I think I will devise some kind of heat shield for next season.
Gotta admit, I've never heard of that! I would be more prone to think that the floor is failing, not due to the wood stove. Ground that is saturated with water will find a way through-I get it here often. Doesn't really matter what caused it though, right? Hope your repair works well and doesn't reroute the water to somewhere else.
I have a tendency to follow yooperdave's thought process. There isn't that much heat that radiates downward off the stove by comparison to the outward and upward radiation of the appliance. My money's on the hydrostatic pressure of the water coming under your slab through a crack in the foundation then finding its way through a small crack in your floor that happens to be in the vicinity of the stove. I'd bet if you drilled a hole through your slab, you'd find a mini-geyser until the pressure was relieved. It may go away and not show up again until the next extended heavy rains in your area. Years ago after three days of rain, at the point of entry of my incoming water line, 7' below grade, was a quarter inch water fountain spraying out 12" or 14"horizontally creating a heck of a flood in my basement. Chipping around and filling with hydraulic cement solved the problem for me.... You can make a good heat shield out of brick. Set them in mortar just like your're building a fireplace hearth. I did that for my little old neighbor lady that didn't wanna bend all the way down to fill the stove. But that's just one of a multitude of ideas. Good luck sir, and please post your findings and solution.
I think your water problem is a water problem, not a crack in the floor from the stove problem. If you seal the crack under the stove, the water will come up somewhere else....you need to channel the water away from the house. Where do your downspouts go? I used to get water in the basement...a lot... I finally dug the whole foundation up outside and put in foundation drains and piped downspouts out to daylight and sealed/mastic and insulated the walls and backfilled with stone to the top. Basement is dry as could be now
Will you put up your weather sticker again please? I like to know what a TurboNinja considers chilly....
