After weeks of rain, we had more throughout the night and we knew that we were going to find the downstairs flooded (again) this morning.
Our garden is all clay and slopes down to the bank behind the cottage. The clay is like a sponge but finally reaches a stage where it cannot hold any more and the water just pours out in streams. Three of those streams reach the cottage across the rubble-filled so-called "terrace" and flow in through the gaps where the French windows will be.
One of the streams also diverts and probably flows under the cottage, coming up through the stone walls.
This feels very "Grand Designs" with Kevin McCloud full of doom and gloom about the flooding and not having the windows in yet and the rainy season drawing in.
Our builders are promising to clear the rubble on the terrace tomorrow and to dig channels to divert the water away. We're not optimistic as they have promised this before. But it is now urgent. The electrician is supposedly coming on Tuesday to start laying underfloor heating.
Wet floors and electric cables - I hope not!
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"This feels very "Grand Designs" with Kevin McCloud full of doom and gloom about the flooding and not having the windows in yet and the rainy season drawing in."
You wrote exactly what I was thinking as I was reading it..☺
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