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Thanks for your replies. Nozzle - Forgive me ignorance, but I'm not exactly sure how you mean that I french drain at the bottom of the trench, but please take a look at the pictures below...is this what you mean by french drain??? bernardgreen - The basement is original, since the house was...

Thanks nozzle. The problem that I have is that the water is currently blocked due to concrete and is standing outside next to the property foundations. So should I: Setup a pump which directly pumps out the water from the outside OR Drill some weep holes in the foundation stone's mortar to...

I hope your not going to mind me BUMPING this thread.

Thanks woody. Being honest, I don't think there is any way of creating a land drain (unless you have any ideas??). All the ground is clay and the more deeper the ground, the more blue solid clay appears and the water just sits there for many days, until the next rain. Hence my original post...

Bernard, because currently the vast majority of rain water is simply standing in the trench next to the foundations and not going anywhere, with only some leaking into the basement.

Sorry bernard, I've ended up editing my post as I wanted to add a picture and some more info to it, but you've posted your reply beforehand. I actually do have an idea of the amount of water that is collecting. During heavy rain the water is filling a space of approx 1.5mtrs length, 1ft foot...

Here is the idea I had: Water extraction idea by amigo posted 31 Dec 2017 at 10:56 AMThanks very much bernard. But your suggestion of having a sump pump inside sounds more plausible and sensible to me. Because my idea means that if in the future there was a problem such as a blockage, I'd...

Thank you Andy. I would like to apologise as I feel I haven't better explained what I'm looking for. Basically, I want a water pump which: is non-submersible/surface-mounted has an inlet and outlet pipe connections has a built-in sensor on the end of an inlet pipe to detect water/or maybe I...

I'm really sorry Andy but that is just a link to a google search for a sump pump.

Hello, Firstly everyone merry xmas & best wishes for a very happy new year. I'm hoping someone can help me regarding questions about water pumps. We've has a bit of disaster as after heavy rain, one of our basement rooms has flooded. After a lot of investigation & digging from a local...

Oops, sorry wrong thread....MODS please delete as this was supposed to be posted in BUILDING section.

Hello, Firstly everyone merry xmas & best wishes for a very happy new year. I'm hoping someone can help me regarding questions about water pumps. We've has a bit of disaster as after heavy rain, one of our basement rooms has flooded. After some investigation from a local builder, we've found...

My apologies john I most certainly did miss your post. My goodness the plasterboard is way too expensive, because I'd need around 40 square metres of plasterboard to cover it and that would be a whopping cost of approx £700. I'll still need to render over the plasterboard too.

That's much appreciated guys. So in that case, it'll have to be a mesh. Thanks again

The stone wall is in pretty bad condition to be honest, hence my reason to cover it up. I'm just looking for a cheap solution and waa hoping there might be a special plasterboard for outside walls.

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Hi everyone, I'm currently getting the garden sorted. One of the problems I have is that one of the garden walls is bottom half stone and top half breeze blocks As you can imagine, the top breeze blocks half is pretty straight, whereas the bottom stone half is sticking out in many areas...

I think your spot-on with regarding to air coming through the bay-window, because I can feel it through the wooden sill. I'm sure there is no way of accessing this without either taking brickwork out or ripping up the sill to fill the cavity.

Your right....I now remember when one of the vents was taken out a while ago, it was totally sealed around it. So now I'm left in a bit of a pickle, because all this time I thought that air is escaping from the gaps in the vent/cavity and cooling parts of the wall down, so what could it be...

Thanks JohnD. Actually to be honest, the floor isn't that cold as it's fully carpeted in every room. The only exception is the hallway which is directly above the cellar. I plan to insulation the cellar ceiling with rock wool to counter this draught. However wherever these vents are located...