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Title: too much water
Post by: discograham on July 06, 2006, 04:40:40: Ive now got 7" of water on my patio.. one more inch and it's in the house... :( ... so much for drainage...
... and a well flooded front room where its come in somewhere above the patio doors... :( ..

The splashing on the carpet woke me up... :cry:

Thankfully the electrics are dry and I'm insured.

And this is July ?
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Oh well... a couple of hours on and Ive got a soaked carpet, soaked curtains, ruined wallpaper and god knows what the plaster is like under it.... :( BUT... I moved the t.v etc, :lol: and the electrics are dry.. still got a swimming pool on the patio though... :shock: ... could be worse ... :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: too much water
Post by: Edge on July 06, 2006, 06:17:34: Sorry to hear that :shock: , we could do with a "little" rain up here in the borders.
Title: too much water
Post by: Bob696 on July 06, 2006, 06:19:39: not seen a spot here for a couple of weeks
Title: too much water
Post by: discograham on July 06, 2006, 06:40:35: My attitude is that it's only an inconvenience.. when all's said and done it's only a bit of drying out and re-decorating and no real harm done... BUT... it did go past dpc level and seeped under the door frame..... :shock: worrying.. as its a cavity wall...

I just wasn't impressed being woken at 3am ish... :lol:
Now for the phone call to the insurance company.. blood and stones comes to mind... :lol:
Title: too much water
Post by: Tiny Tim on July 06, 2006, 10:37:00: Sorry to hear that.

Do you have a hosepipe ban too?
Title: too much water
Post by: discograham on July 06, 2006, 11:17:28: Quote from: "Tiny Tim"
Sorry to hear that.

Do you have a hosepipe ban too?

Not as far as I know... yet... but give it a few more days of torrential rain and they will enforce one.... :shock: :lol:
Title: too much water
Post by: Littledan on July 06, 2006, 12:24:31: weird that graham cos we havent had any flooding where we are in milton keynes :?
Title: too much water
Post by: Rich_P on July 06, 2006, 13:20:46: This is about 2 streets away from me, Sunday evening.
(http://images6.theimagehosting.com/188156.jpg)
(picture sourced from Difflock)
Title: too much water
Post by: dew1911 on July 06, 2006, 13:25:12: Hehehe that looks fun - Shoot through in the 110 at about 50 :D
Title: too much water
Post by: Rich_P on July 06, 2006, 13:33:46: Quote from: "dew1911"
Hehehe that looks fun - Shoot through in the 110 at about 50 :D

And crash. :roll: The road was being pulled apart below that water, with the discharge shifting the whole manhole covers and breaking up the road. :shock:

It's dry now, but you can see the damage it did to the road, as the road is hardly smooth and there's great big cracks everywhere. :lol: Elsewhere in Oldham there are really long and wide cracks/splits, and in some places the road has sunk or gone through where a water channel had failed. :shock:
Title: too much water
Post by: discograham on July 06, 2006, 13:35:11: Quote from: "Littledan"
weird that graham cos we havent had any flooding where we are in milton keynes :?

Trust me Dan... my front room is flooded.. and the pic is my patio at about 4am...

And a load of ruined timber... :evil:
Title: too much water
Post by: Rich_P on July 06, 2006, 13:36:04: Does it smell? What I mean is, does it smell of sewage?
Title: too much water
Post by: discograham on July 06, 2006, 13:38:27: Quote from: "Steel"
Does it smell? What I mean is, does it smell of sewage?

no... :shock:

It's rain water... :lol:

Just a lot of it all at once..... :roll:
Title: too much water
Post by: discograham on July 06, 2006, 13:39:07: Quote from: "Littledan"
weird that graham cos we havent had any flooding where we are in milton keynes :?

Trust me Dan... my front room is flooded.. and the pic is my patio at about 4am...
Title: too much water
Post by: gtomo2 on July 06, 2006, 14:42:16: and were i am we have had no rain at all. sun is still shining 8)

sorry to hear /see you have been flooded out. hope the insurance dont muck you about (hope you picked up your new laptop and gps off the living room floor before it flooded :wink: )
Title: too much water
Post by: old joe on July 06, 2006, 16:42:16: should have called mate i would have come straight round to help bail out mate.

Dazza
Title: too much water
Post by: annabelle on July 06, 2006, 19:44:32: :cry: Poor you, Graham hope you and your family have somewhere warm and dry to go until everything is sorted out. We got a lot of rain here and I was expecting the interior of my Disco to resemble your house but spookily enough only a few drops got through the sun roof.
Hope you can still make Billing, we will be there from the 17th behind the Craddocks tyre over the stream.
All the best, Annabelle
Title: too much water
Post by: dazzawhipple on July 06, 2006, 21:47:01: Graham,,

I hope everything is okay... I have been there but I lost everthing upto 4ft up from floor, the car and was out the house for nearly 9 months (this was in 1998)

All i say is insurance asser works for the insurance company and not for you

Darren
Title: too much water
Post by: Littledan on July 06, 2006, 22:51:33: Quote from: "discograham"
Quote from: "Littledan"
weird that graham cos we havent had any flooding where we are in milton keynes :?

Trust me Dan... my front room is flooded.. and the pic is my patio at about 4am...

bloody hell Graham we have nothing like that at all here in bletchley!

where bouts are u in MK?

dan
Title: too much water
Post by: MK-90 on July 06, 2006, 23:09:52: Blimey....i know we, ve had a lot of water but.... :shock:

The ouse in Newport Pagnell is pretty swollen and alot of rain fell last night apparently..

Best of luck getting it sorted :wink:

Adam
Title: too much water
Post by: discograham on July 07, 2006, 10:29:17: Quote from: "dazzawhipple"
Graham,,

I hope everything is okay... I have been there but I lost everthing upto 4ft up from floor, the car and was out the house for nearly 9 months (this was in 1998)

All i say is insurance asser works for the insurance company and not for you

Darren

Now that makes me kind of embarassed even mentioning my little puddle ! :oops:

mopping up done, smells a bit damp.. but I will be chillin' at billing soon enough...
Title: too much water
Post by: tenpolequint on July 07, 2006, 18:52:15: Was the house in an old flood plain
Title: too much water
Post by: discograham on July 07, 2006, 21:18:18: Quote from: "tenpolequint"
Was the house in an old flood plain

Mine was'nt ... just bad drainage... and an extension the neighbours had last year my have something to do with it... as I've been in the same house for 26 years with no previous probs.... :shock: