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Doozergirl

Oooh, that's not good at all. You've not won this battle at all and you're going to suffer ongoing problems.

It could be ground water levels. In which case I think you need an automatic pump down there. You can't have that just sitting around. It's a bit strange to be water table if you say that the drive slopes away from the house?

I think though that you and your neighbours need to check your drainage and have CCTV surveys on the rainwater and sewage drains. If there is a problem that can be solved then it needs to be done.

You cannot have that rainwater pipe discharging onto ground if that is what is underneath either, no way.

Doozergirl

This started as a question about skirting boards!

iamlucky18

Lol I know. Better to get the bigger problems out of the way though eh?

iamlucky18

So what's the best way of dealing with this?

Have the downs pout discharge directly into a sump and connect the sump to the existing drains?

And near the bay window put a dish channel or aco drain?

elver_man

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Listen to Doozergirl,


How is it left with the Chemical Injection people? or have they finished their magic.

Doozergirl

CCTV your drains first. Check that all the water that you think is discharging to sewer actuallly is actually doing that. Otherwise you create an endless cycle of pump and leak.

And CCTV next door too - they must be suffering a problem too as there's water on the party wall.

It would be nice to know what's under their bay as well.

iamlucky18

Ah. Good thing you mentioned Doozergirl. The dry rot started AT the party wall. So I asked the neighbour whether she had any issues, she seemed a bit reluctant to answer but eventually said no. She did have a lot of builders coming around at the time though.

She did mention that she's had dry rot issues in the past, but only in the kitchen area.
The dry rot company that also did the chemical injection have done work. I've got a guarantee.

They were going to charge me an extortionate price but managed to knock 30% off it.

Doozergirl

Much of what has been done had to be done. The injection is wrong. Utterly unhelpful and wrong but probably not a large proportion of the overall cost.

The problem is not solved and it has to be stopped or you will be claiming on that guarantee in the future. Is it insurance backed? I can't fathom how you guarantee work that hasn't been done.

iamlucky18

Hmmm. I just had an interesting conversation with my neighbour. Apparently there is ano underground stream running just in front of or properties. She's getting her front living room treated for something at the moment but wasn't happy for me to have a look. She did say that the sub floor bay window section is concreted, so any ground water penetration will be difficult.

I can't see this being covered under insurance. I'll double check.

Doozergirl

Concrete? How old are the houses?

Is she alluding to underpinning? Bay windows were often built without any foundation to speak of.