New builds on a floodplain and socket heights

[Robin]

...can be met by planning for and building ramps which meet Part M: level access is ideal but not much use if the access - like the house - is under a metre of water

[Brian Gaff]

Does seem a bit ridiculous. In the Netherlands they tend to build things on a pontoon so the whole thing tends to float if the worst happens. To be honest its isrrisponsible to build on a flood plain as they are just passing on the water to further down the river surely?

In this case how can they have got planning permission in the first place? Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Are people mad? If you do get a flood when you have just spent money on the thing it will then be worth less than you paid for it.

it therefore sounds like a folly. Very very stupid. You only need to look at the soil to know its flood plain and the red flags and sirens should sound in the heads of everyone.

Brian

[Roland Perry]

In message , at 00:58:08 on Sat, 10 Jun

2017, The Natural Philosopher remarked:

Lots of them. On the other hand, if the river floods above those banks there's a whole bunch of bad thins going to happen that would make losing a few houses pale into insignificance.

FWIW I live overlooking the Great Ouse, and it's one level all the way from Denver to Waterbeach/Earith. Even in times of great flow on the river it doesn't rise by more than a few inches.

[Tim Watts]

They do round here - but the houses have teh garage underneath and the rest of the house upstairs.

Reasonable as you limit the damage to one car that could have been moved if you were around and random garagy things.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Odd, isn't it? Sockets may well survive a flood after being dried out. But few floor coverings would. Or much else that the water gets to.

Perhaps the idea is you can watch TV with your feet in the water while waiting for rescue.

[Graham.]

We need to use drywall instead of plasterboard.

[Harry Bloomfield]

ARW expressed precisely :

I remember it well - a colleague's wife rang me to say he was missing somewhere in the foods, so I took a ride down to try to find and rescue him. He had stopped his car on a high point, then been trapped by floods ahead and behind, which subsequently drowned his car. He escaped with just a good soaking, but lost everything which had been in the car including the car.

[Graeme]

In message , Tim Lamb writes

Did someone call?

[Harry Bloomfield]

Brian Gaff submitted this idea :

The purpose of a flood plain is to flood, to act as a reservoir in extreme conditions, when the river cannot cope. We naturally found rivers useful for transport and etc., which over cons became built up along side the rivers, so the rivers became constricted in width. The result with lots of water trying get through a narrow opening, is the level rising and flooding we sometimes see when the weather is extreme.

[John Rumm]

Only if the got the joists level ;-)

[John Rumm]

I though drywall *was* plasterboard?

[The Natural Philosopher]

"Drywall (also known as plasterboard, wallboard, gypsum panel, sheet rock, or gypsum board) is a panel made of calcium sulfate dihydrate (gypsum) with or without additives and normally pressed between a facer and a backer (typically thick sheets of paper)."

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[tim...]

because that makes providing the required disabled access more difficult

tim

[tim...]

the usual rule is no downstairs "living" rooms.

so the ground floor is just garage and utility area

tim

[tim...]

isn't that to "protect" the permafrost?

tim

[tim...]

because the land is cheaper, but they can still sell at the same inflated price

tim

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

all made more sense when it was called part S in Scotland......E for means of escape... F for flues...G for ground treatment...L for daylight... P for obstuctions...etc....but life was too sensible back then .....

[TMH]

I thought they were that height so wheelchair users could get to them?

[ARW]

It just means a longer ramp.