"Stuart Noble" wrote in message
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wrote:
During today's rain my garden flooded (which isn't rare as it's on
clay) and so did the street outside for a while. When we lifted the
hatch to look at the floor void under the ground floor it had a couple
of cms of water in (now gone). This was 3 hours after the rain
finished - so there was probably a fair bit more earlier.

The house is a 90 year old, brick built semi, in south London. The
floor void is about 2 feet high & the bottom appears to be made of
some kind of compacted surface (it's very dusty/sandy). There is
cabling for a ring main in the void as well as CH pipework, but the
electrics seem fine.

Is there anything I should do to help everything dry properly or to
check for damage? Anything that I should do in the longer run (apart
from trying to raise the cabling).

Thanks,

Michael


I expect it's often been like that over the 90 years. It's just that you
lifted the hatch this time :-)

In one house we had, it used to happen every spring high tide. The house had
been around for a century before we bought it and there were no detectable
ill effects..

Colin Bignell