About £100 from Machine mart for a cheap Hippo 1. £1000 if you want a dependable one. Depends how often it happens. I have 3 sump pumps for pond cleaning, and a low lying area of our back garden!!.

 

ive got a few from styal but dont know how to post them

 

 

thought ours was going to flood last night as it flooded last year horrible at the time alot of sleepless nights etc and we had a 4 week old baby but luckily we have insurance and we made sure we come out on top in the end

next time the mortgage will be paid off

and our insurance went up £30 for the year

i live in hull so i think its something like 96% of hull is below sea level and houses built on flood plains and new housing estates cannot cope

 

You have to host the pic on photobucket etc before it'll show, pm it to me and I'll host it for you if you want!"

 

Cheers I think putting one of these in is the best option to solve the problem, it only floods once or twice a year!

 

We live just outside of Morpeth, all roads around here were closed by the police by late afternoon on Saturday, no-one could get out and no-one could get in, roads here were pretty flooded but luckily no houses got any floods, there was a few accidents at lunch time, most of them aqua planing but serious enough to take up to 3 hours to clear the car's away. What's the betting the house insurance will go up now, bet Morpeth was hardly known of until now.

 

We live close to a river and so have to pay higher insurance costs, but the thing is, it NEVER floods! Our side of the river has huge flood defenses, but the other side has none (just farmland) so if it was to flood, it would be the farmland not the village side.
Wouldn't mind being flooded, then I might have my own way and get the ghastly carpets changed that the wife chose - who buys red feckin carpet?

Waggy

 

When I returned to my house last night after a four hour drive there was still some water coming up through the kitchen floor but not much. I just stepped over it and went upstairs This morning I have to decide whether to put all the stuff in the kitchen back to normal or leave it all piled up. There's more heavy rain forecast and the water table is up high so I think the sensible option is just to leave it as it is. I can still get to the fridge and coffee machine but the cooker and dishwasher are piled up with stuff so I guess I'll just have to eat out for a few days