I have been using the shop vac. Have had to empty it 8 times.
Oh boy, do I know what that’s like! We built a house back in the 80’s. My husband did most of the work, often alone, it took 22 months to build. It was a log cabin, a dream of ours. Just a basic 3 bedroom, 2 bath ranch, nothing fancy, but we loved it.
After several years we started getting water in our basement, late winter. Often in the winter it would warm up after a snow. This particular winter it seemed the snow melted right into our basement and kept coming and we wondered if the water tables in the ground had shifted.
We had to shop vac every 2 hours, just to keep the water in one area, for weeks! We even drafted our daughters to help at night, they were in jr. high. We felt our son who was younger was too young to be called upon during the night. I forget their exact ages. We could always tell when one of us slept through our alarm as when we opened the door to the basement you could see water at the bottom of the steps, if it had been 4 hours since the last shop vac.
Most of it fell to me, as my husband went to work and my kids went to school. I think we did that for 6 weeks that year. I was ready to let the water have the basement but my husband said it was worth fighting for.
It happened other years, too. It’s sad when a shop vac becomes your new best friend!
At least I was in my 30’s and healthy doing all that. I can’t imagine having to do that now with my knee and yours. I’ll be praying.