Hi,
Our house is a mid terrace. Split level - as in you walk in to the hallway and to the two receptions, and walk down 8 steps to the kitchen (and off that 3 steps to basement). Behind the house (15m) and garden is a stream long since channeled into a culvert.
I suspected a high water table before anyway, recently got an auger to do fence posts and basically thought I'd keep drilling and about 1m down hit clay and the water table.
digging under the kitchen today - underneath the kitchen where there is a .5m craw space to soil (damp), as expected another .5m down was the water table.
To cut a long story short, in the last 3 years a few times when it's been *very* wet, I've seen water trickling into the basement from under the kitchen. I'm waiting on a sump pump which I was going to install under the kitchen to stop the basement ever flooding, also, the kitchen has got a damp feeling about it (humidity from below? btw I've injected the dpc cream thing - not sure it works!)
The basement and kitchen has all the air bricks open so air circulates, thinking I should ask the ajoining neighbour at least to put a sump pump in else I'll be keeping his basement dry too!
Any other suggestions? anyone had experience with this? I'm guessing I shouldn't try to install the pump low, as one it will be running most of the time, and two if I do get the water table lower I'm liable to cause problems with the clay drying and the footings of the rear of the house.
I'm also thinking under the kitchen I should chuck down a load of gravel - more surface area for the dampness to evaporate - make sense or not?
Thanks in advance for any advise
Our house is a mid terrace. Split level - as in you walk in to the hallway and to the two receptions, and walk down 8 steps to the kitchen (and off that 3 steps to basement). Behind the house (15m) and garden is a stream long since channeled into a culvert.
I suspected a high water table before anyway, recently got an auger to do fence posts and basically thought I'd keep drilling and about 1m down hit clay and the water table.
digging under the kitchen today - underneath the kitchen where there is a .5m craw space to soil (damp), as expected another .5m down was the water table.
To cut a long story short, in the last 3 years a few times when it's been *very* wet, I've seen water trickling into the basement from under the kitchen. I'm waiting on a sump pump which I was going to install under the kitchen to stop the basement ever flooding, also, the kitchen has got a damp feeling about it (humidity from below? btw I've injected the dpc cream thing - not sure it works!)
The basement and kitchen has all the air bricks open so air circulates, thinking I should ask the ajoining neighbour at least to put a sump pump in else I'll be keeping his basement dry too!
Any other suggestions? anyone had experience with this? I'm guessing I shouldn't try to install the pump low, as one it will be running most of the time, and two if I do get the water table lower I'm liable to cause problems with the clay drying and the footings of the rear of the house.
I'm also thinking under the kitchen I should chuck down a load of gravel - more surface area for the dampness to evaporate - make sense or not?
Thanks in advance for any advise