Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

Yes. No. No. I think it's a flash flooder. We're rendering the internal walls, it makes sense. If it were mine, I'd like to build a wall around it and buy a floodgate for that. A line of defence to keep it away from the house.

Oh wow, the bought it but must have known it flooded. :eek:

Brave!


That's what I'm seeing though, 'normal' p,aces I expect ( fro. Short time here ) to flood are not worse ( yet) . Or even as bad.


Want me to remove questions? Rude of me...considering!:o

vivatifosi

My parents house is at risk of groundwater flooding, hence my interest. They a d their neighbours have cellars, hence the issue. But most of the time it is no higher than a few inches. Ironically, this is as a result of poor urban planning and lack of drains at the rear of the property, rather than the river opposite the front (not a big one).

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

My parents house is at risk of groundwater flooding, hence my interest. They a d their neighbours have cellars, hence the issue. But most of the time it is no higher than a few inches. Ironically, this is as a result of poor urban planning and lack of drains at the rear of the property, rather than the river opposite the front (not a big one).

Our house had a cellar that was filled in with concrete we are told. Wet ink this happened in the eighties. We think it might be because it filled with water. Gutting. A cellar would be so lovely and useful.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Our house had a cellar that was filled in with concrete we are told. Wet ink this happened in the eighties. We think it might be because it filled with water. Gutting. A cellar would be so lovely and useful.

DW once lived in a basement flat in a house in the US. Basically it was a cellar that complety replicated the layout of the ground floor. Room after room after room. Endless. it was.

However the tendency there was to raise the houses above the road. so they were a bit elevated IYSWIM.

I didn't know whether they had to dig down to make basements or whether they just raise the "ground" to surround the basements.

There weren't many mature trees (they seem to like trees near houses for shade in a way we'd probably find worrying from subsidence but I got the impression they were all young and new but, come to think of it so were most of their houses). Their way of doing it didn't look as though it would encourage cellars to flood.

Having said that, the media seem to be saying we're building on south-eastern floodplains because
1) we all want to live in the south-east.
and
2) all the suitable land is gone or "protected".:(

vivatifosi

Noticed you're around fc. Welcome back.

zagubov

vivatifosi wrote: »

Noticed you're around fc. Welcome back.

fc has been missed, and she should know that we are glad she is still visiting the thread (which we'd noticed from a short while back).

Best wishes from all here.
We hope things will be better for you.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

edit : I don't remember the flooding seven years ago at all. Not even the tiniest bit ATM. . Can some one jog my memory please?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_floods

Lots of houses in various bits of the country were flooded, but the most serious complication of the 2007 floods was the flooding of the Mythe water treatment plant, which resulted in most of Gloucestershire being without any mains water for about 2 weeks and with mains water that wasn't safe to drink for another week or so after that. They had water bowsers on every other street corner not only in Tewkesbury (which has flooded countless times) but also in Gloucester and Cheltenham (which flooded too, which is less common) and surrounding villages (some of which were under serious amounts of water - a friend of mine in a village near the Glos/Worcs border had 4ft of flood water in his house). The army were deployed to hand out free bottled water for drinking in supermarket car parks etc. They only just managed to save a key electricity substation too. If they had failed, then most of Gloucestershire would also have been without power for days or maybe weeks, and since the sewers are electrically pumped, without sewerage too. I heard that evacuating most of the county was one option under consideration for what to do if that had happened, although mercifully it didn't. Even with just the water problem, it was described as Britain's biggest ever peacetime logistical operation.

CKhalvashi

lostinrates wrote: »

Best bread in England at queen camel bakery even if you have to risk your life crossing a303 heading east.....

I was close to there with DD's the other week at a museum, but didn't try the bread

LydiaJ wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_floods

Lots of houses in various bits of the country were flooded, but the most serious complication of the 2007 floods was the flooding of the Mythe water treatment plant, which resulted in most of Gloucestershire being without any mains water for about 2 weeks and with mains water that wasn't safe to drink for another week or so after that. They had water bowsers on every other street corner not only in Tewkesbury (which has flooded countless times) but also in Gloucester and Cheltenham (which flooded too, which is less common) and surrounding villages (some of which were under serious amounts of water - a friend of mine in a village near the Glos/Worcs border had 4ft of flood water in his house). The army were deployed to hand out free bottled water for drinking in supermarket car parks etc. They only just managed to save a key electricity substation too. If they had failed, then most of Gloucestershire would also have been without power for days or maybe weeks, and since the sewers are electrically pumped, without sewerage too. I heard that evacuating most of the county was one option under consideration for what to do if that had happened, although mercifully it didn't. Even with just the water problem, it was described as Britain's biggest ever peacetime logistical operation.

Thanks for that Lydia, I didn't remember it too!

CKhalvashi

Had an email from solicitor at 7pm last night.

49% of taxi company is now sold to one of the controllers (who is married to a driver for the company round the corner), although I'm going to have to wait 5 years to be paid in full for it (although have been paid 16% upfront, with 1.4% of the balance each month.)

Her niece/nephew want to purchase 49%, and she wants to purchase the other 2% at some point, whereas I just want to get rid of it. It's making a profit, but too much hassle to not run yourself IYSWIM.

CK

purch

zagubov wrote: »

IYSWIM.

You probably would have had to if the basement wasn't elevated :eek: