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Below the floor level, we finally decided to build ourselves a wall around the house. nick, who is a chartered mechanical engineer, decided, with the help of some experts, once builders had put in the foundations, he, annie and some friends did the labouring. it cost about the same as a small extension and required a remortgage to pay for it. it is between four and seven foot tall. a foot higher than the highest ever flood. they built it in the summer and it took four months and it was finished just in time for the first big flood of this season in october. a really important part of building the wall was to install these sumps, because the ground water is going to come up underneath them around the wall and these sumps will collect the ground water and pump it back outside the wall. it is impossible to reach the house safely as the water is too deep and the current is too fast but we were able to ....