[Closed] Any builders in the house? I'm getting wet downstairs...

...in the cellar. It's been raining very heavily here for a few hours and there's water getting in.

It's only a couple of puddles just now, but we had a about a metre of water in there last year. Most of the street had flooded basements - we were advised it was probably ground water forcing it's way up through the floor.

Just been down to have a look, and there are two obvious places where water is entering.

One puddle is obviously caused by rain-water entering through a hole where a new soil pipe was installed. The hole to the outside appears to be just stuffed full of that expanding foam stuff. It's wet. Should I rip this out and fill with cement?

And there's a couple more puddles under the wall where the pipe from our well enters the house. There's a big puddle outside the house next to the well... I wonder if it could be some sort of capillary action along the outside of the pipe, then seeping through the plaster?

I have a horrible feeling replacing that could be a big job.

Any tips? Will I die etc? Cheers.