Flooded Cellar Piermont Road

[mpd]

We have lived off Upland Road for 17 years. Never has our cellar flooded. Last night we came back home to find at least half a foot of water in the cellar. Flooding the whole cellar.

We have a membrane with a concrete floor. No sign of leak. So assumed it must be water table or underwater diversion?

I know that Thames water have been doing a lot of work in the area.

Then this morning it has all totally disappeared? Any ideas anyone?

[nxjen]

My cellar flooded a couple of years ago and wisdom on the internet said to check drainage which did indeed prove to be the problem. The drainage system in many of the Victorian terraces in East Dulwich pairs two adjoining houses and my neighbour?s cellar was also flooded. As the main drain is shared, it is Thames Water?s responsibility to clear any blockage which they sorted in a matter of hours and the water disappeared. I was very impressed with the guys enthusiasm for their job.

So perhaps your neighbour had a blockage which they cleared or maybe there was a blockage outside under the road which TW cleared? Either way, count yourself lucky it cleared spontaneously - I was just hoping my flood would just go away!

[XDoc]

nxjen Wrote:

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> My cellar flooded a couple of years ago and wisdom

> on the internet said to check drainage which did

> indeed prove to be the problem. The drainage

> system in many of the Victorian terraces in East

> Dulwich pairs two adjoining houses and my

> neighbour?s cellar was also flooded. As the main

> drain is shared, it is Thames Water?s

> responsibility to clear any blockage which they

> sorted in a matter of hours and the water

> disappeared. I was very impressed with the guys

> enthusiasm for their job.

>

> So perhaps your neighbour had a blockage which

> they cleared or maybe there was a blockage outside

> under the road which TW cleared? Either way, count

> yourself lucky it cleared spontaneously - I was

> just hoping my flood would just go away!

[XDoc]

nxjen is quite correct - same thing happened to us...

[Pugwash]

This happened to us many years ago - we have a combined drain with next door (and possibly the house before) and our neighbours were putting nappies down the toilet which caused massive blockage of water and sewage in our cellar. I think the water board sorted it our but was so long ago I cannot remember.

We also have underground streams running under some of the houses in Barry Road and consistent and heavy rainfall in the past have caused water to rise in the cellar.

[mynamehere]

There are old U-bend traps that have become clogged. Upland at the South end by the Goodrich School has just had 2 of the traps replaced. Contact Thames Water to investigate is my suggestion