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Hi all,
I know theres quite a few handy/builder types on here..
Just wondering what to do about a bit of water in my cellar after it rains? I don't know how concerned I should be - recently moved into the house.
Is it going to require major excavation to fix? are there any botched I can do myself?
The epicenter seems to be on the left hand side and it seems to be seeping through the concrete floor rather than from a crack, Or its comming through where the wall meets the floor. The seepage is suspiciously near to where the rear drain pipe for the roof enters the floor.
House is a fairly typical early 1900's Yorkshire end terrace
Picture taken this morning after its been moderatly raining for about 24hrs - how frigtened should I be !!! thanks
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Call that water?
I remember when I had a stream running through my cellar. The water came in under the door near the steps and flowed out of a handy hole at the bottom of the opposite wall along little gullies it carved between the flags. Then there was more water and it rolled over the flags to the hole.
That was back in … 2000-ish.
Manchester, detached, 1885.
Hasn’t been as bad since. Whenever there is prolonged rain now it seeps up between the flags.
I’d be concerned if I had precious things on the floor.
Cellars are generally wet/damp... Making them dry is expensive and difficult.
Once you've got your head around the fact that water will sometimes get in then you'll stop worrying about it.
OK, thanks, maybe I should relax a bit then 🙂
The seepage is suspiciously near to where the rear drain pipe for the roof enters the floor.
Does this pipe go straight into the floor rather than into a gully? Could that have split under the floor?
Does this pipe go straight into the floor rather than into a gully? Could that have split under the floor?
Yes, thats what I'm guessing. Well the drain pipe doesn't go into the floor, but into a ground level drain which I guess, from what I can tell is routed behind the back wall in th pic.
Theres also a shared sewer in the very near vicinity (beneath an to the left of the wall on the left I think)..which I guess teh drain pipe empties directly into...so it could be the swere, but the water in the basement doesnt smell foul.
I think it might be worth temporarily rerouting the suspected gutter drain piping well away from the house, to see if that's the cause. Purely a guess but it could be a soak away (common in older houses) that isn't doing it's job anymore or something like that. If it's sorted by this, then you can look at solutions (fixing/cleaning out the drain, fixing/relocating the soak away etc).
It shouldn't cost much to have someone stick a camera down the pipe/drain to see what's what. It might be worth asking your water co. to send someone to look into it but not sure what their rules are around this regarding whether it's on your land / on the street etc
Our old house had a cellar that flooded. It was the water table that rose in wet weather and the water just seeped in. Once you know it there are 2 things you can do: get the whole thing tanked or just accept it. If you want to keep stuff down there you can dig a sump and install a submersible pump which kicks in automatically when the water level rises.
If you want to keep stuff down there you can dig a sump and install a submersible pump which kicks in automatically when the water level rises.
When the water table rose we got a spring in our cellar, the neighbours had a submersible pump running 24/7 into the drain.
We had a mid terrace halfway up a steepish road in Sheffield that probably 2-3 times a year would get 2ft of water in it !