Monday 28 October 2013

Flood Barriers

You may have seen the ongoing debate between the Government and the insurance industry regarding who will pay for flood damage in areas that repeatedly suffer damage.

We act for a Flood Barrier designer and manufacturer and could never understand why these are not regularly used as a method for defeating this issue. Germany has many areas that flood annually and their cities are protected by miles of aluminium barriers installed each autumn. It appears that no UK insurer recognises flood barriers as an effective defence.

The British Standard that is set up is a start - See the video here but the specification does not deal with the depth or require a zero leak result, rather it compares the result to sandbags which cannot stop damage being caused. If you have commercial premises that need protection, we do have an insurance backed solution.

Please talk to Castlemead Insurance Brokers and we will afford you
an introduction.