Flooded Floor Void

[michaeld121]

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

[Owain]

Ventilation.

If you can lift boards in a couple of places and put a fan under there to get a through draught that will help dry the space out.

Owain

[Stuart Noble]

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

[Stuart Noble]

Air bricks and the wind outside are normally sufficient.

[nightjar]

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

[meow2222]

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

NT