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Prevent Flooding Entry into Home
Flooding is now subscribed to many residential areas, not least in Jakarta and surrounding areas. Briefly heavy rain puddle is already everywhere. Dense region becomes flooded.
Flood water often go up into the house. When the rain stopped, residents were busy cleaning up the mud and trash water below. If the flood cycle fifths years, or 10 years, perhaps understandable. But, when it rains every house flooded, of course, very annoying.
The best solution is to move house, choose a safe area free from flood. But not that easy. House prices in Jakarta exorbitant. The house is in a flood area was difficult to sell, and the price drops. On the other hand, perhaps you are already comfortable with the surroundings so lazy to move house. Dilemma, is not it!
You refuse to move house, but does not also subject to flooding. If this choice, you can do is deal with and minimize water coming into your house. How to? Here are tips that can be done to prevent water from entering into the house:
a. As much as possible, leaving open green space (parks) on home soil. It is useful as a water infiltration into the house.
b. Attempts at when building a house, floor height should be above ground (rising above the point 0). Better yet, if space is limited front of the house with a garage should be high again raised again to the main room of the house.
c. Reducing the use of paving, paving can be used if want a grass block.
When you have a large enough area of ??land that can be pursued also multiply plants that have a water absorption big ground like mango, guava trees, rambutan trees etc.
a. Make a speed bump in front of the carport or garage entrances to prevent water from penetrating into the ground.
b. Can use massive fence as much as possible in order to minimize water into the building for example, natural stone fence.
c. When the flood water remained inside the house, be attempted manufacture of culverts at the disposal carport directed at the river.
d. The diameter of the channel can have a length of 5-10 cm is covered with iron frame or that the channel is not closed completely.
e. If water is still flooding into the building but did not want to expend too much to remodel a carport or a high rise, the floor can be built using sandbags weighing about the house is placed in front of the fence when it was raining.
But when you've done all the precautions in the house to renovate homes to withstand flooding but flooding still annoying, then you can make the various displacement furniture so that the furniture you are not harmed when the flood came. May be useful!
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