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4 Ways to Build a Flood-Proof House

2/24/2020

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​Flooding cases become more frequent due to severe climate change, evidently seen with FEMA’s 2016 flooding prediction in the US of 2100 percent. For this circumstance, protecting your home from the flood is a crucial matter to do for your family’s safety. Here are the four flood-proofing ways that you can choose for your house.
  1. Elevation
    As the oldest way of flood-proofing, elevating your house is an obvious way to keep it safe from the severe flood. If your home is near the river or the sea, ensure to lift your building above the likely height of the floodwaters. Build a house on stilts or raised platform, like a beach house, a bank of earth, or concrete. If you are a nature lover, a treehouse is also perfect as a flood-proof home.

  2. Floodwalls
    If you find raising your home above waters a tough job, you can try to protect your home by building a sturdy and waterproof wall. Perimeter walls with watertight gates are also an approach for this type of flood-proof hack. You can also combine berms and walls into the landscaping to keep the water out of your house or allow the garden to flood instead.
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  3. Dry Floodproofing
    Dry floodproofing is all about keeping the water out of your property or home. You can choose this method if you prefer to let the floodwaters reach the walls of your house itself by making them watertight. The doors and windows must be flood-proof, so a sealant or a waterproof membrane is usable for this technique. Seal and raise the air bricks and utility entry points for added protection.

  4. Wet Floodproofing
    For wet floodproofing, you can alternatively let floodwaters in but minimize the damage it can do. To do this method, fit a solid floor rather than wood and move power outlets up the wall. Ensure that any unmovable furniture is safe to take a soaking. In most cases, wet floodproofing retrofits flood-prone unsellable properties, making them more durable. With climate change in mind, they design flood-prone houses to have a lower floor with a swimming pool and non-essential services for flooding without much maintenance needed.

Disasters always come unexpectedly and inevitably, so take advantage of the situation to prepare ahead. Instead of waiting for the storm and flood to come, do these precautionary measures for your family’s safety. You can also buy flood insurance if your house is in a flood-prone area.

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Taylor Hicken link
12/27/2020 06:01:28 pm

You made a good point when you shared that watertight gates are useful to prevent floods from entering your home. My mother just mentioned the other day that the rain has not stopped since early this month and she is worried if it will cause flooding that already happened a few years ago. I will suggest to her hiring a reliable service to install watertight gates so the problem will not occur again.

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