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PVCU HAS A ROLE IN
FLOOD RESILIENCE
“The extreme winter weather, having ruined Christmas
for tens of thousands and
likely to cost the country up
to £1.5bn, serves to remind
those concerned with sales
and manufacture of PVCu
building products of the
important role it can play in
designing in flood resistant
and resilience into threatened homes,” says Chris
Coxon, Head of Marketing at
Eurocell.
Not only has the insurance industry estimated the cost of flood
damage as being between £900m
and as high as £1.5bn, it is also
being said that it will strip 0.2%
from UK Gross Domestic Product
this year.
Flood resistance refers to buildings constructed so that water cannot get in, while flood resilience
means building houses so that
while water may enter, the impact
is reduced, structural strength is
maintained and property recovery
is easier and quicker.
These are respectively referred to
as ‘water exclusion’ and ‘water entry’ strategies by the government
in its guidance ‘Improving the
Flood Performance of New Buildings – Flood Resilient Construction.’ It says: “The main principle
is to use durable fittings that are
not significantly affected by water
and can be easily cleaned (e.g. use
of plastic materials, or stainless
steel for kitchen units).” It then
goes on to use an illustration of
PVCu skirting as an example of
resilient fittings.
Chris said: “While it would be a
significant overclaim to say that
PVCu windows and composite
doors would play a major part in
a ‘water exclusion strategy’, there
is no denying that their inherent
weather tightness would at least
slow the ingress of water to a
degree – and keeping low water
thresholds at bay for even short
periods may buy a little extra time
for sandbagging, or a chance to
move furniture, valuables and
appliances out of the way.
“However, PVCu products
including fittings such as plastic
skirtings have an unequivocal and
obvious contribution to make to
flood resilience - being resistant
to twisting, swelling, shrinking,
rotting or warping - unlike the
many porous timber windows and
doors undoubtedly wrecked in the
recent deluges.
“Not only is this of benefit to
the poor homeowner – who is
saved the hassle of replacing
ruined joinery items, and is able
to maintain the security of the
home in the face of looters, like
we shockingly witnessed in York
recently – but also to the insurance sector, reducing the cost of
claims by thousands of pounds.”
Chris concludes.
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