Batten down the hatches
Dodd, Claire
Batten down the hatches - 2007 - Building 272(8491) 3 August 2007, 22-24(3) .
Looks at measures to make homes flood proof. Recommendations include replacing timber floors with concrete and tiling the ground floor, using lime plaster or cement render instead of gypsum plaster, and moving electrical points above the likely flood level. Considers the costs of implementing flood proof measures, where the materials would come from, whether the measures would work, and if buyers would accept them.
United Kingdom--
Batten down the hatches - 2007 - Building 272(8491) 3 August 2007, 22-24(3) .
Looks at measures to make homes flood proof. Recommendations include replacing timber floors with concrete and tiling the ground floor, using lime plaster or cement render instead of gypsum plaster, and moving electrical points above the likely flood level. Considers the costs of implementing flood proof measures, where the materials would come from, whether the measures would work, and if buyers would accept them.
United Kingdom--