A homeowner has found himself forced to pump 4,000 litres of water out of his garden every time it rains amid his fight to find the source of a leak in his cellar.
Chris Hockaday, 68, from Plymouth, Devon, has faced ten months of constant flooding on the lowest floor of his house - and has not been able to figure out why.
The washout has seen the former firefighter spend a whopping £3,000 on having his garden dug out in a desperate search for the culprit.
Shocking images show his basement rendered defunct as a storage space, with everything moved off the floor and stacked high on shelves above amid the deluge.
And his once verdant, well-kept front garden has turned into a muddy dumping ground, with a hip-high pile of dirt and three-metre hole.
