1300 litres of water!

[kazste]

Help, our hot tub sprung a leak after I caught the pipework with my watch when adding chemicals. About 1300 litres of water all over the floor but didn't find out about it until the next day as its in a separate sun room not attached to the house. The wooden flooring is ruined which I am not concerned about as put in by the previous owners and hardly the right material for the job, but assuming the floor is just concrete underneath would there be expected to be any issues or would it just seep through the concrete and then into the soil beneath?

Currently waiting for the insurers to take a look, but they will only make it the same so hot tub would be fixed and new laminate flooring put down plus any issues due to the water, this would cost me £250 excess.
But wondering if it would be better to just pay for it myself as hottub a little old now and was thinking of replacing all of the pipework, and then either laying a tiled floor or some of the self fitting office style carpet tiles.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated, thanks for reading, and have a great day.

[minicab]

Depends what the rest of the building is made of, and how much water sat on the other materials.

Make the insurance company aware, you don't have to claim if you don't want to.

Get the summer house dried out... a dehumidifer and a heater would be a good idea - go to your local tool hire centre for these. It should only cost you £100 to get them for a week, and will ensure everything is properly dried out.

Then you can have a good inspection and take it from there.

Concrete base should be fine, but any wood structure on top I'd be more concerned about, and would check over thoroughly once dried!

[kazste]

Thanks for this, has dried pretty much completely on its own due to hot weather. The wood floor is ruined, is a brick walled building which were damp but a lot dryer every time I see them. Will pull up some of the flooring to check the state of what is beneath.

[Gav147]

You should pull all the flooring up, the concrete floor should be laid on a damp proof membrane to prevent water/moisture coming up through the it, this obviously has the reverse effect when water is poured on top of it. If that amount of water has been on it then the concrete will be wet through and with the flooring down the moisture will be trapped in the concrete.

As posted above I would get a decent dehumidifier from a tool hire company once you have the floor up and leave it in there to dry it out, even if it looks dry you'll be amazed how moisture it will pull out.

[eliot]

kazste said:

Help, our hot tub sprung a leak after I caught the pipework with my watch when adding chemicals.

I really dont understand how you could catch your watch on anything inside a tub that would do that?

[spud989]

Might have one of those Lay-Z Spas?

[blackcab]

you might want to treat for silverfish ...

[kazste]

Plastic hose was caught with watch whilst screwing the lid to put chlorine in.
Floor being pulled up to assess the damage but insurers don't want me to touch it before them.