flood damage

Hello We have recently bought a 60 y.o bungalow. That seems fine. I had noticed water staining on the outside wall near a drain. We are now having new carpets laid and when I pulled up old carpet noticed some historic water staining on floorboards. The floor boards and carpet are dry. We have...

Neighbour's kitchen drainage pipes routinely fall apart emptying a few loads every day of dishwasher, washing machine, kitchen sink water onto a paved path in their garden. The water floods their path and lays against our garden wall and is no doubt causing some damage and is certainly eroding...

Hi, This year the garden seems to have been flooded constantly and the grass is basically a pool now. We thought it was a burst pipe but our local water supplier has come out and inspected everything and are saying there is no evidence of it being a burst pipe. They haven't really suggested...

Hello All, We've been renovating a house in France for the last 10 years, using a combination of French and English builders, and some DIY. The back wall of the house used to have a soil pipe running down it, and once removed left a gaping hole in the wall. We visited for a long weekend (back...

Hi I'm off to help out with the flooding recovery in Cumbria for a few days as a volunteer. Obviously most of the homes there have had their DB and ground floor systems under water for a while. I came across a suggestion for disaster recovery:- For a DB with rewirable fuse, removal of flooded...