Flood protection in a Cheshire Mill.
Sometimes we design for the out of the ordinary. One such case involved dealing with a converted mill building on a flood plain, this including flooding within an external courtyard area, a ground floor apartment and internal communal areas.
By James Hockey
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In the internal communal areas we installed resilient finishes and decorative gullies, with new drainage runs recessed below the floor, linking to an unused swimming pool, into which we installed pumps (pool essentially acting as attenuation).
In the external courtyard we installed a large single mains powered pump (Newton CP750) moving circa 20,000 litres per hour, very much on a best endeavours basis to deal with a degree of water but obviously advising that if the river really comes up it is not going to do a lot. We also installed localised tanking details on door thresholds to limit ingress on such vulnerable positions.
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