Recent content by Daveyp1471

There has always been water under the floor but it moves away pretty quick. It's present on around 300 houses along our road. Thankfully they are well raised with plenty of crawl space under the floorboards. The house is 100 years old and I'm told this would have been an issue back then also and...

Thank you all for your suggestions, im waiting for the tides to drop a bit so I get a few days grace as at the moment its just too wet.

how deep will that work. My metre deep hole is full now so how much would i need to remove to effectively compact?

Thanks all, 1990 would you use a whacker plate or will good old boot suffice?

Sorry it was 6 meters away, not sure why i wrote 3. Any tips on compacting 1990 and should i add anything else like soil or sand?

No water pipe that i can see, was hand dug and only happens after high tide. I need to know how to seal it up as before. Is it a case of just compressing the clay back? John D it maybe an underground stream from the downs to the sea, i have not tasted it but it is pretty clear. Maybe I can...

I live near the sea and up until recently when it rained I had terrible flooding on my drive way which is slightly slopped towards the house. There is a drain cut out into the drive which goes nowhere. Any way to prevent the water flooding on my drive I asked a builder to help install a...