Flood protection panel, for a front door.

[blackrodd]

Can any one help or advise on the above, please?
I need to make or supply and fit a flood protection plate on a front door.
But as usual there's a problem that the rendered walls, each side of the frame are really out of plumb.
At 600 above the door step, the reveal is an even metre (1000.) but at floor level it measures 856, and undulating, in shape, each side as these older properties can be down here in sunny Devon.
On looking into making one, I can't even find any sealing strips, and wood or ply would be unsuitable as if the worst happens, the wood or ply will expand and get trapped in place,
So not wanting loads of leftovers,
It'll probably be best to buy one, cheaper, and easier in the long run.
But I will still have the fitting issues with the out of plumb masonry to contend with.
Many thanks and Regards Rodders

 

[flying haggis]

would the enviroment agency or the river authority or similiar have any suggestions (or even may supply free)

 

[Jacob]

There used to be a very common version in rural villages, usually to keep out mud, cow-muck, snow, pigs, poultry, etc, and floods too if that was a risk.
Basically two permanent verticals with a slot into which you dropped boards. You could add a cill with a slot and you have it! Presumably a loose fit would do as water pressure would keep it pressed tight if it was a good fit to the inner face.
You fit straight things to bendy walls by "scribing".

 

[mseries]

The cottages where I work have plastic or nylon vertical slots fastened to the door openings for flood protection panels to be slotted in just like Jacob describes. Not sure if their walls are parallel in the opening though.

 

[Baldhead]

My daughter and her husband bought one for their front and rear doors, I'm not sure how much cheaper their house insurance is but its a lot of money, perhaps it's worth asking the insurance company what they would save if they were fitted? maybe the saving would make it more viable to buy one rather than make one.

Baldhead

 

[Fatboy]

I hope your public liability is upto date if it doesn't work when called upon!

 

[blackrodd]

Found one! All recycled plastic with edge and bottom seals and looks like it will have enough "meat" to scribe and seal to the vertically challenged wall reveals, and frame, and very cheap too, for a standard front door.
I am quite surprised (and pleased!) that judging by the response, very few people have experienced flooding, up and down the country, or trying to stop it.
Regards Rodders

 

[Hemsby]

After the floods in December 2013 a rental property we own was severely flooded , although the Insurance company were brilliant with the repairs they refused to renew cover including flood at a sensible price. Total buildings insurance premium 2013/2014 was £380 with £200 flood damage excess =D> . To renew in April 2014 was £5800 with £10000 flood excess #-o #-o #-o , obviously that premium and excess was not an option, other properties in the same street received similar type renewal terms to include flood cover.

In April we had flood defences professionally installed. It is a Victorian building so the walls & stone door steps are far from vertical and horizontal. The way the installers coped with the irregular wall surfaces is to attach oak timber against the walls sealed behind with silicone and then attach the plastic channels to the timber.

To accommodate the worn and angled stone steps the supplied plastic panel that is inserted between the channels in the event of flooding has a very thick foam strip at the bottom to take up the undulations.

The cost of labour & materials was £2088 inc VAT this was to protect 3 standard doors 1 double width door and the installation of 3 automatic airbricks. This sum was covered by a government grant, as were all properties throughout the country if they had been flooded.

Boston in Lincolnshire suffered badly with a tidal surge that flowed up the river Witham, many properties are still uninhabited. The flooding here received little national news coverage.

 

[blackrodd]

After the floods in December 2013 a rental property we own was severely flooded , although the Insurance company were brilliant with the repairs they refused to renew cover including flood at a sensible price. Total buildings insurance premium 2013/2014 was £380 with £200 flood damage excess =D> . To renew in April 2014 was £5800 with £10000 flood excess #-o #-o #-o , obviously that premium and excess was not an option, other properties in the same street received similar type renewal terms to include flood cover.

In April we had flood defences professionally installed. It is a Victorian building so the walls & stone door steps are far from vertical and horizontal. The way the installers coped with the irregular wall surfaces is to attach oak timber against the walls sealed behind with silicone and then attach the plastic channels to the timber.

To accommodate the worn and angled stone steps the supplied plastic panel that is inserted between the channels in the event of flooding has a very thick foam strip at the bottom to take up the undulations.

The cost of labour & materials was £2088 inc VAT this was to protect 3 standard doors 1 double width door and the installation of 3 automatic airbricks. This sum was covered by a government grant, as were all properties throughout the country if they had been flooded.

Boston in Lincolnshire suffered badly with a tidal surge that flowed up the river Witham, many properties are still uninhabited. The flooding here received little national news coverage.

'Er indoor's cousin lives in Spalding, Think he was one of the lucky ones!. we've visited there and like it very much, Biggest attraction for me is the vast agricultural work that goes on as opposed to the grass and animal keep type of farms more frequently seen, I could watch it for hours
Regards Rodders

 

[Hemsby]

Yes mainly root veggies which is ok until harvest time then you get the fragrance of rotting sprouts up your nostrils and the roads full of tractors. Lincolnshire is good for cycling nice & flat and still has a slow pace of life. Better than Hampshire where we lived.

Fortunately due to the fantastic work by the Dutch digging land drains & ditches back in the days flooding on the land is not a problem its only that little area call the North Sea that gives us agro now and again, last time 1953

Regards,

Keith