On 21 Jul, 11:16, "nightjar" nightjar@insert my surname
here.uk.com wrote:
"Stuart Noble" wrote in message
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wrote:

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

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..


yes, as long as it drains away ok, and youve got airbricks that arent
blocked, it should dry itself fine.


NT