Episode 1841
Coming up on Around the House! From Flooded Homes to Effective Drains: Your Ultimate Guide
What happens when your home faces a flood? This week, we dive deep into the essential preparations you need to make for natural disasters, highlighting recent events like the water crisis in Asheville, North Carolina. It's crucial to understand that recovery can take time, often days or even weeks, depending on your location and resources. Later, we welcome Barbara from Infinity Drain to discuss innovative drainage solutions for areas such as showers, pools, and driveways. Discover how advancements in waterproofing technology are shaping the future of drainage systems, ensuring your home is better protected against water damage. Don’t miss our tips on being proactive and staying prepared for any unexpected challenges that may come your way.
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Transcript
Here's what's coming up on around the house Saturday.
Host:What happens when you have a house that is flooded and what are you going to do to take care of it?
Host:Now in our midweek special this last week, we talked about something really important that, that was making sure that you're prepared for these kind of things.
Host:And we're starting to see that with Asheville, North Carolina, with them not having water for five, six, seven days, you're seeing all of these situations where places are cut off.
Host:And I it's a great reminder for all of you that listen on the radio that didn't catch on the podcast to really make sure that you're prepared for that next natural disaster.
Host:Whether in your hurricane or it's a tornado or it's an earthquake, it takes days.
Host:Depending on who you've got and how prepared your state is, it could take a week or two for people to get out there.
Host:Some states are better than others.
Host:Some people are more prepared.
Host:Sometimes storms are so big that they can't handle it all.
Host:And so give them a week or two to come help you.
Host:So just make sure that you're prepared enough.
Host:In today's episode, we are talking with my friend Barbara from Infinity Drain.
Host:We are diving into drains inside the shower, out by the pool, or even in your driveway for sure.
Barbara:Our product line really started out with what we would call like a sight, sizable linear drain.
Barbara:Over the years, waterproofing techniques have been evolving and improving.
Barbara:Now you're seeing much more prominently methods like the Schluter system, which is a non woven fabric, liquid applied waterproofing within the shower, which is a paint on roll on style of waterproofing.
Barbara:So we've even had to adapt our drainage systems to the waterproofing technology and improvements that have come over the past decade or so.
Host:All that and more on Saturday's around the house show with Eric G.
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Host:We'll see you on Saturday either way.
Host:And don't forget, we have a brand new episode of around the House northwest on Saturday.
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Host:As always, thanks for tuning in to around the house.
Host:We'll see you Saturday.
