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Yes those are my thoughts. Severn Trent are emailing me a detailed report of work carried out and report.

The living room joists are fine. What I could see looked like new. There is a steel RSJ running from front to back of house too down there. Maybe something to do with down stairs fire place and chimney breast removal? The only clear sign of rot is where a wooden stilt like support under kitchen...

Yes, my mate is a roofer and does guttering. He is going to route it to the soil pipe at the back of my house. I believe this is ok as there is no separate drain provided for rain or ground water.

I thought that too, I think they fobbed me off first time. I did see the dye coming in from neighbours side, so I guess that doesn't lie. I am just glad it is resolved. They pumped a lot of water out from under my lounge. I will let it settle for a week and hopefully it should start drying up.

This has been resolved. Severn Trent came and ran a different colour dye through the lines of each of our four houses. Came back as my neighbour. His kitchen drain was shot. All his sink, washing machine, dishwasher waste was draining under the floor. He has now had it all routed to soil pipe...

In all fairness they did send someone out to take samples of water under house and analyse it. It came back as rain or ground water.

I have emailed the Environment Agency today to ask if they know if the Water Table is high at my address just so I can rule that out.

There is a foul drain under that cover servicing her house and 3 others in her block. Her gulley isn't new but the small grid and drain connection look very new. Her rain water is definitely draining into that drain under manhole. My rainwater has nowhere to go though as I have no gulley or...

I have some more pics. As you can see in alley to right my neighbour has her drain from kitchen and the rainwater gulley going into a smaller drain at side of her house which I imagine connects to her foul sewer via manhole cover. That manhole doesn't service our foul sewer as that is at other...

Oh definitely I am onto it. It looks like ST advise if they only provide a foul waste drain then they are ok with surface water draining into the foul drain if they are charging for removal of it. They do however say they would prefer it if you installed a soakaway. I will take some more...

I am paying. Does that mean ST should pump out the water under my lounge?

I have had a look through paperwork from Severn Trent when we purchased and it doesn't look like we have a surface water drain. There is a foul waste drain that runs through the back garden of all 4 houses and that connects to main sewer at the other end of my block. Does this mean a soakaway...

It should drain into sewer and Severn Trent provide that service. I will be responsible for the connection to that sewer though. Also, I don't know where the sewer is located. The foul waste sewer runs along the back of house under our gardens, but not sure where rain water one is.

It definitely does go up with rain and goes down significantly in Summer. My house is built on blue clay which doesn't drain well either. I have a pump so will pump it out and get some drainage quotes. I guess a plastic gulley drain would work?

I am pretty sure the underground drainage is Severn Trent's responsibility but I thought I was responsible for the gulley or drainage system connecting to it.

I think I will pump out the water that is there and get a quote for a drainage system connecting it to the sewer network.

Many Thanks. Do you think it is possible that amount of rainwater is finding its way under my house? How is it getting under foundation walls?

The white one provides rainwater drainage for my porch roof and the black one drains the four house roofs in my block.