Sumpy pumpy thingy...

[Gervase]

I've seen some on here extolling the virtues of a sump-and-pump system for getting rid of underfloor moisture.
Does anyone have first-hand experience of living with one? I ask becaue I'm currently working on a place which has so much water coming through the subsoil that any number of external french drains, internal herringbone drains under the limecrete slab and almost anything else seem unlikely to be able to cope. Anyone any
thoughts?

 

[Nemesis]

http://www.premier-heritage.co.uk/casestudies_item001.aspx?CaseStudyID=5

Ask PC?

 

[NT]

Your pumping system will need to be in keeping with the historic character of the buiding. Dog wheels are no longer legal, so are you willing to keep horses?

NT

 

[andrew gayton]

sumpy pumpy is th eway to go; i have experience of them in a cellar.........

 

[Nemesis]

My mind is boggling, A...

 

[Lime]

Your pumping system will need to be in keeping with the historic character of the buiding. Dog wheels are no longer legal, so are you willing to keep horses?

NT

Continuous galloping will be a cause for concern.

 

[andrew gayton]

N E M I S IS !..... you make I blush......

 

[Nemesis]

I just wonder what Grimmers would have made of it all!

He and Brunny I have no doubt had vast experience with sumpy pumpy things in cellars too.

Ah me. How I miss them both.

 

[Penners]

He and Brunny I have no doubt had vast experience with sumpy pumpy things in cellars too.

Well - I'm such an innocent. I've only just twigged the smutty implications of "sumpy-pumpy".

 

[Nemesis]

Smutty? I though we were talking about experiments in flooded cellars...

No, we won't get on to watersports. Let's leave it there. This is a family website.

 

[Penners]

Gervase - some friends of mine used to have a house in Gloucestershire which had a sumpy thingy under the hall floor. No pumpy though. The water just sat there. I have no idea where it came from, or where it went - and I suspect they didn't either. Never any problems, though.

That information, of course, is no help to you whatsoever.