[Steve Chapman]

Have spent last few days cleaning up after floods in Dorset, never seen so much rain and water everywhere, think we had a months rain in 24hrs 

I feel really sorry for the people with flooded homes and businesses, theres just so little you can do when its all pooring in,

We spent this morning extracting over a 1000 ltrs from a local restaurant, now they have a long clean up job ahead of them, and only a few weeks before the Olympic Sailing events, so its pretty depressing all round.

Even my own unit got hit and its not even on low ground, turned up Sat morning to pick up a rug for a customer and the rug was floating about like a boat on water 

Fortunately have been able to save it.  -  Told the customer it just needed a little longer to dry 

Hope thats the last of the rain for a while   

Steve

[Fran84]

Bloody hell Steve, where was this??

We haven't seen anything like that in Bournemouth.

[Steve Chapman]

All around Dorchester & Weymouth, a few roads are still closed, trying to upload some pics


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The restaurants under water on Sunday, amazingly the water had receded enough today to get near and suck out the water

[Paul Moss]

Got your work cut out there Steve. Good money in flood work tho

[Hilton]

Surely the carpets should have been removed with that amount of contamination.

[Steve Chapman]

Have you ever tried moving a carpet with a 1000 ltrs of water in it ?

we thought it best to extract the water first then remove the carpets, 

I appreciate some may choose to do it the other way round 

Steve

[Paul Moss]

No Steve you have to extract the excess first, especially when its stuck down, Hilton has prob not done any flood work yet.

[Hilton]

Nope never done one but if I did I think I would Slice it up in to roughly sq mt pieces and remove it that way there by cutting the Work in half...

Of course it would depend what equipment you use as to whether you extract out first as. I suspect it would be inadvisable to try and use any electrics in such a situation don't you think.?

[Steve Chapman]

We just did what the customer asked in the safest way possible,

After all they're paying the bill 

Steve

[Paul Moss]

Hilton, no electric involved when using the truck 

[steven Banks]

I used to just whip out the stanley knife then in the skip.

[Neil Williams]

I know it's bad down there because that's where I should be holiday, but after trying to get there Saturday morning, staying in a hotel overnight (Yeovil) and then trying again Sunday morning we gave up and came home.
But I'm going to give it another go tomorrow although I'm going avoid (this time) driving through canals roads because a low sprung BMW just isn't really suited for that sort of work!
On the positive side and by all accounts all our caravans came through it damage free.

[Neil Williams]

Oh yes... have they sorted out the A35 lake yet? And the landslide at Beaminster?

[Steve Chapman]

Hi Neil,
The A35 was still closed yesterday at winterbourne Abbas so prob best to avoid that, not sure about Beaminster, would've thought that was more likely to be passable now.

Youve been lucky if the caravans are untouched, looked like most of Burton was under water on Sunday, but I think the caravan site is on higher ground and away from the village so prob got away with it.

Good luck with your travels, you may get some sunshine once your here 

Steve

[clinton]

Looks bad on the news steve with the floods.

Guess you will be working flat out with the water removal too.

[markpowell]

same story here in Hebden Bridge