Water under the floorboards - Desparate measures

[stevio]

Last year with the help of your site i laid a block paved drive,thank you.Whilst doing this i found the rain water drainage soakaway pipe at the front of the property completely blocked,so i diverted some new pipework to the foul water drainage system.An existing problem of 'water under the floorboards' reduced quite a bit but still persisted.Today i dug out the broken gulley at the back of the property and found that when tested the soakaway took 20 minutes of hosepipe water away with only a small amount of water showing at a joint.The area is extreme clay(real sticky yellow stuff)and i have no confidence in this soakaway,i suspect water finds its way back under my property somehow.What i am asking is-would you connect a new gulley to the foul water system or persist with the soakaway.I am not getting any younger(or richer)the thought of establishing another soakaway and still getting water under the floorboards is off putting. Quite a few neighbours have 'water under the floorboards' some have had tons of concrete stuffed through their airbricks to try and stop this problem.1960's houses,carnt beat 'em. Ste

[Tony McC]

As I seem to be saying more and more often, without seeing the site, it's difficult to say what would be best, but if you have a concern over the viability of the soakaway, connect up to the sewer system in one way or another. If you do connect to the FW system, you must use a trap to prevent whiffs and pongs.