5 Tips for Preventing Basement Floods Before They Start, Anatom Restoration

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5 Tips for Preventing Basement Floods Before They
Start
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Protect Your Basement Before Flooding Occurs

• Many folks were personally suffering from flood
  damage to our basements, causing us to lose
  furniture, family heirlooms and other keepsakes.
• Taking the proper precautions can prevent money,
  time and headaches within the future, and it's
  going to even help protect against large,
  unforeseen natural disasters.

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1. Grade your lawn correctly

• If the yard around your home grades or slopes
  toward the house rather than faraway
  from it, you're in danger of basement flooding.
• When it rains, the water has got to go somewhere.
  Ideally, your lawn is sloped in order
  that rainwater runs faraway from your walls and
  toward city streets and gutters.
• If you're taking a walk around your home and
  see that your lawn does actually slope toward
  your outside walls, there are many landscaping
  options that you simply need to fix this.

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• The good thing is that you simply can get as
  creative as you would like in order that your
  solution fits your design style while decreasing
  your flood risk.Try these landscaping
  solutions
• Diverting rain spouts
• Installing a rain garden
• Installing a green roof
• Digging out a swale
• Using heavier mulch

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2. Leave a gap between your mulch and your siding

• When using mulch in flower beds and other areas
  around your home, it's important to stay a
  barrier (about 6 inches or so) between the
  landscaping and your outside walls.
• This is especially the case with siding and other
  building materials which will not be as durable
  against water as brick is.

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3. Extend downspouts and make sure they are
turned away from your home.

• Instead of connecting downspouts to your footer
  drain or having them end right above the
  bottom around your home, add some more
  material in order that the water runs out of the
  spout further faraway from the surface perimeter.
• Be sure to direct it toward lawn areas that are
  graded faraway from your home in order that the
  water doesn't simply flow back toward your
  outside walls and sit. Should it do so, the water
  build-up during heavy rains will saturate the
  bottom, eventually causing basement flooding.

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4. Clean out your gutters in the spring and fall.

• Listen up Americans, leaves and sticks add up in
  your gutters. If you're not regularly cleaning
  them out, you're putting your home in danger for
  flooding.
• During an important rain, blocked gutters dont
  drain correctly, forcing the water to dump
  directly below them onto the inspiration round
  the perimeter of your home.

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• These clogs cause more violent rainfall to
  hit the bottom because the water is being forced
  out with nowhere else to travel rather
  than drizzled from the sky.

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5. Install a sump pump (and a back-up system).

• Finally, you'll want to place money into
  prevention so you dont need to spend tons on
  resolution.
• By installing an automatic suction pump in your
  basement, you'll keep water buildup from normal
  rainfall in restraint and stop basement
  flooding.

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• If youre not familiar, sump pumps just
  about act sort of a big floor drain, sucking any
  water out of your basement or out of the
  encompassing foundation and redirecting it
  elsewhere out of harms way.
• Backup sump pumps will kick on should the
  primary one leave. For instance, there are
  battery-operated options that startup if the
  facility goes out rendering the primary one
  useless.

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Anatom Restoration

• Anatom Restoration is on call 24/7 to help you
  basement flood cleanup denver.
• Our team of IICRC certified water damage
  technicians will come on site, stop the flood
  damage from spreading, remove any left over flood
  water, clean sanitize the affected area and
  restore your home to its pre-flood condition.
• Call Anatom Restoration 24 hours a day at (720)
  715-7773 for food damage cleanup, flood
  restoration denver, and flood damage restoration
  Littleton, Denver, Aurora beyond.

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[phone]
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