Any experience of Flood Guard door protectors?

daltone

hi

We live in a flood risk area, and have been flooded twice in the last 7 years - both times due to multiple river-based calamities occurring (ie not just a bit of heavy rain on its own), both times with water surrounding the house, for 12-24 hours or so, before it started to drain away again.

Now the water never got higher than the door threshold, so didn't spill over the floor - it seeped up through the void and soaked the carpets & wooden flooring, necessitating replacement. Between the two times, we build a conservatory with a tiled concrete floor, and when the flood came on Christmas Eve that had about an inch of water above the floor level, but the threshold is a little lower than the rest of the house so I presume the water came through the French doors.


The house only has two large airbricks either side of the chimney breast, but a good bit higher than the water level reached. I can only assume that ground water level has risen up to soak the floors internally - though I suppose it's also possible that the seals around the door frames were letting water into the void too.

• Would fitting Flood Guard type systems do any good here (the kind of thing that puts a removably uPVC barrier over the doors to seal them) ?
• Does anyone have experience of using these kinds of system?
• If so, what's the likely cost...?

What sticks in the throat here (apart from it happening late on Christmas Eve, and not being covered by my insurance policy due to the previous flooding) is that 2 weeks ago, we just finished having a new kitchen installed, had the downstairs redecorated and had new flooring installed to one room ...


Thanks in advance for any advice!