Please Help Water table Level under house

[Mog1]

Hi

Please can you help? Any advise would be greatly appreiciated.

For the past 5 Months i have been sorting out a problem with my house. Every time it rains water is under my floor boards causing Damp Walls, Plaster Falling Off Etc.

I have been in touch With my house insurance (abbey) who sent out many people to investigate the problem. They really did not understand what the problem was and said it was a Yorkshire Water Issue.
I have contacted Yorkshire Water Who also Investigated and Said it was Either The highways Running off in to my Property OR Water Table.

So i contacted Then The Enviromental Health Dept In my Local Council And a very rude man said " what do you want me to do about it". Appartantly I have to find out where the Water is coming from and Then sort it from there, I tried to explain I dont know where its coming from thats why every one coming out to asses the problem. He also Stated It definatly Would not be a highways issue. (without seeing it)

So if it is water table what can be done, Do i have to live in damp conditions every time i get bad weather.

I have 3 small children under 5, and due to the damp i now have no carpet, or wallpaper. An infestation of Silverfish is Emotionally doing my head in. No one From pest control will bother coming out as untill the problem sorted or they will keep coming back and cost me a fortune.

Is this right how i have been treated especially with small children. My youngest Suffers with Chest Problems and no one seems to be bothered.

Please Help?

[huggys boss]

I can't offer you any help, but I am subscribing to your thread because I have the same problem. Luckily we have a celler/paddling pool depending on the weather.

I live less than 100ft from the sea deffence wall here in wet and windy Morecambe and just assumed it had something to do with that.

Regarding your children - do you have a nice health visitor? Can you get her onside and get her to get things moving for you re pest control.

[Mog1]

Many Thanks For Reply As regards to Health Visitor, I have not checked into that. Even my local council wont do pest control for me.
I have found out so far from a water proofing company that a sump needs to be put in living floor. So that will cost a bit.

[berrti]

Just for clarity are the water company saying that it may be the natural water level in the gound - the water table (unlikely unless you are at the lowest point in your immediate area and a bit harder to deal with compared to run off)