First, you could start to narrow it down yourself. How about going outside with a garden hose. Keep it running right on the corner. If it does again come in at the crack, then you have confirmed it's the crack. Next, you go in the yellow pages under "foundation repair" or "basement leak repair", etc. an choose someone to check it and do the repair. I've use the "crack team" franchise, that does "crack injection" to seal the cracks and was very pleased. There are others, also. BTW, the first crack repair could run around $500, plus or minus, with each addl one being less.

Stephanie, I understand your confusion, and agree that it is not a true bully / victim situation. However, I really think that what my son did was over the line, and wanted to be sure he realized it, too. If they were playing out in the yard, I would have handled it differently, but there are different rules for the yard than for school, and he is old enough to save any roughhousing for after school. I don't know what, if any, punishment the other boy received, and truthfully, I'm not even sure it matters. Ds has never complained about "MJ", so what reason would the school have for punishing him? When the asst principal first talked to ds, ds only said that they were playing around - didn't mention the pencil-poking until later when he talked to dh. What I wanted ds to get out of this, is reinforcement of something he learned years ago with my niece. My boys and their friends all play rough with each other, and know not to expect any sympathy from me if they get bruised while wrestling or playing dodge ball. But when my niece would come over, ds would play with her the same as he plays with his friends, she would screech, and he would get in trouble (because she had made it clear that she was not interested in their games). Pretty soon she would screech whenever he came anywhere near her - I think just for the fun of getting him in trouble. So I told him, I know that she is overreacting, but I can't defend you if you have so much as touched her. So just stay clear of her, and then you'll never be in trouble. I know it isn't exactly fair that he has to walk on eggshells around her, but in life he'll find there are always a few people who don't play by the same rules he does, and I wanted him to be able to differentiate between who is "safe" and who is not. To me this is nearly the same situation - the school makes it clear that students are not to touch each other, but he did it anyway and paid the price. Yes, the other kid seems to have changed the rules between himself and ds midstream, which is unfortunate, but still, I really don't feel that I can defend ds' behavior here - he has to be responsible for what he does regardless of what anyone else did. Probably will not call "MJ"'s mom, though - your comments made me realize that there is really nothing I can say to improve what will be an uncomfortable situation. "MJ"'s mom will eventually see ds out playing with his friends enough to realize he is not a big bad bully :)

Hello, My name is Brent and I've serviced commercial pools in so cal for 25 years. On a typical three day per week commercial call, you are testing free chlorine, pH on each call and if you're on chlorine tablets, you're checking total alkalinity once per week. Phosphates are checked monthly too. As far as CYA, you are not checking "for it" you are testing for proper levels. 40-60 is sufficient for any pool and th health department does not allow levels to exceed 100. On long term testing, we do TDS every 6 months. Hope this helps...

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