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The following advice sheets provide information on how to improve the flood resistance of your home.
The sheets are designed to help you carry out the work yourself if you are skilled at DIY or a builder, and may be useful to you when working with builders and surveyors if you are unable to carry out the work yourself.
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Advice sheet 1: Identifying
flood risk.
How to identify if a property is at risk of flooding and the potential
effects that it may have.
(Adobe PDF)
Advice sheet 2: How does floodwater
enter a house above ground?
Explains how floodwater can get into a house through the walls
and around doors and windows.
(Adobe PDF)
Advice sheet 3: How can floodwater
enter a house below ground?
Explains how floodwater can get into a house through floors and
foundations.
(Adobe PDF)
Advice sheet 4: Flood-resilient
walls.
Explains different types of walls, and provides guidance on how
to reduce the flow of floodwater through them by sealing cracks, joints and
brickwork and applying suitable treatment.
(Adobe PDF)
Advice sheet 5: Flood-resilient
windows and doors.
Provides guidance on inspecting the joints between doors (including
patio doors) and windows and reducing the flow of floodwater through them.
(Adobe PDF)
Advice sheet 6: Flood-resilient
floors.
Provides guidance on identifying different types of floor and
reducing the flow of floodwater through them, as well as removing floodwater
from a property through the use of a pump and sump.
(Adobe PDF)
Advice sheet 7: Flood-resilient
services.
Provides guidance on reducing the flow of floodwater through
gaps in walls around services such as water and gas pipes; electricity, telephone
and television cables; as well as heating, cooking and tumble dryer vent systems.
(Adobe PDF)
Advice sheet 8: Flood-resilient
sewers and drains.
Provides guidance on reducing flooding from sewers and drains,
for example by using non-return valves, plugs, bungs and fixing drain covers.
(ADOBE PDF)
02 August 2007