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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 301162" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>This just shows how bonkers we are at building houses in this country.</p><p></p><p>If you have a site that is known to hold water and have a high water table, then surely logic dictates you build the house so that the floor level is well above the ground level, even if that means building a slight raised plinth around the house. Then the worst that could happen is the garden floods and the house sits there on a dry island.</p><p></p><p>To build with the floor below ground level, and total reliance on a pump is just purely bonkers. I wonder if this was a planning restriction to limit the height of the building? if so the planners need sacking and replacing with someone that knows something about buildings.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, this property DOES have a "flood warning" whenever the pump fails, the floor socket fills with water and trips the RCD, so you know you need to take a look at the pump.</p><p></p><p>But it's also questionable fitting a floor socket in a floor that's known to be prone to flooding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 301162, member: 6969"] This just shows how bonkers we are at building houses in this country. If you have a site that is known to hold water and have a high water table, then surely logic dictates you build the house so that the floor level is well above the ground level, even if that means building a slight raised plinth around the house. Then the worst that could happen is the garden floods and the house sits there on a dry island. To build with the floor below ground level, and total reliance on a pump is just purely bonkers. I wonder if this was a planning restriction to limit the height of the building? if so the planners need sacking and replacing with someone that knows something about buildings. Anyway, this property DOES have a "flood warning" whenever the pump fails, the floor socket fills with water and trips the RCD, so you know you need to take a look at the pump. But it's also questionable fitting a floor socket in a floor that's known to be prone to flooding. [/QUOTE]
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