Pollyanna

All my floors are bare at the moment after a flood caused a lot of damage about 7 months ago. The house has been empty, with exposed rafters and I have found signs that there have been mice about (mouse droppings in my bed would you believe!). Some damaged boards were replaced and next step is getting the carpets down BUT, I am a bit concerned about the number of holes that there are which are of ample size for mice and probably big spiders to get through! These mostly occur around the edges of rooms, for example behind the radiator pipes and between old boards under the stud walls (which obviously could not be lifted) and the new boards. I'd like to try and get those filled before the carpets come. Any suggestions as to what to use and how I might go about this please?

This is my own house, which was flooded by a burst pipe. That's all sorted now. OK, that makes sense. And as long as there's no water underneath there will be no condensation going forward so no further problems should arise?

Work began on my house this week and they started looking at the floors yesterday. They say that one section of chipboard in the worst affected part of the house (inner hallway) had black mould on the underside, but the rest looks OK. I asked a question about the sections of flooring underneath the partition walls on all sides of this hallway, but they say they can't remove these sections of the floor as (obviously) they're holding the walls up. I get that, but what if there is mould under there? What would the consequences be of not removing it?

Got a damp meter and have been playing with it. The wall with the tidemark gives 17.7 above the skirting, 13.5 about a meter above, and 10.3 about 2 meters above. The adjacent wall gives 20.0 above the skirting, 4.0 about a meter up, and 9.0 about 2 meters above. The floor reads between 15.0 and 20.0 along the wall with the tide mark. I can't get the carpet back any further to check further out, but once partner comes home we can do that if need be.

Hi I will get one ordered up and come back to you in due course. Please bear with, and thanks for all your help so far!

I believe that cavity wall insulation was installed several years ago.

Hi. I've tried running the hose as you suggested, and the soakaway seems to be holding its own BUT, if you look at that slab to the left of the drain it slopes downwards towards it, so the water running down those slabs past the drain seems to just pool in that area which is right next to the wall where the stain is.

No, don't think so.

That sounds logical, we'll have a look at it tomorrow and see what we can find out. Thanks.

Is this a soak-away, it's just in front of the garage door? I scratched off a wee bit of the gravel in a couple of places and it just seems to be a very thin layer of chips laid on top of hard compacted earth. The water from the roof runs down that drain pipe in the corner and as far as we know, that's working fine (not blocked).

Not as far as we know.

OK I took a photo of the garage from the highest point of the drive, one from the side so you can hopefully get an idea of the slope, and one of the top of the drive from down by the garage which shows the busy four lane road that's outside the house. Hope this is helpful.

I thought the air brick looked low too. The drive slopes down from the garden to the house and partner says the integral garage (which is adjacent to this bedroom) gets flooded if it's very heavy rain. Here are the pics.

Sorry, struggling with the ins and outs of the forum. Here is the other photo which I have now managed to resize.