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How effective can sandbags really be?
Posted on 8/13/16 at 8:51 pm
Posted on 8/13/16 at 8:51 pm
Just sandbagging the doors can only do so much it seems like.
Maybe if your house is entirely brick, it may be somewhat effective but seems like you'd need a sump pump because it will never be completely water tight
Maybe if your house is entirely brick, it may be somewhat effective but seems like you'd need a sump pump because it will never be completely water tight
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Posted on 8/13/16 at 8:52 pm to Croacka
Bricks ain't water proof baw.
Posted on 8/13/16 at 8:53 pm to BeerMoney
I know but they may slow the water down a little better than a house with vinyl siding or the like
Posted on 8/13/16 at 8:53 pm to Croacka
Why dont they pass out claybags? Clay is impermeable.
Posted on 8/13/16 at 8:53 pm to Croacka
sand expands when wet. It's not perfect, but it works in a pinch
Posted on 8/13/16 at 8:55 pm to BeerMoney
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Bricks ain't water proof baw
True, plus most homes have weeping holes in the mortar by design anyway.
Posted on 8/13/16 at 8:56 pm to kingbob
Idk bro, I must have filled about 200 and they didn't stop shite...work wasn't worth it in my opinion
Posted on 8/13/16 at 8:58 pm to Croacka
Seriously though most people have a pump inside their bag wall to pump the Ayer out. Setup a couple today
Posted on 8/13/16 at 8:58 pm to MikeBRLA
quote:I have only heard them called "weep holes".
weeping holes
Weeping holes sounds well, disgusting.
Posted on 8/13/16 at 9:00 pm to skipbayless614
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Idk bro, I must have filled about 200 and they didn't stop shite...work wasn't worth it in my opinion
You sandbaggin' sunuvabitch!
Posted on 8/13/16 at 9:00 pm to Croacka
Putting visqueen underneath it and wrapping it back over helps.
Posted on 8/13/16 at 9:07 pm to Croacka
They can help a lot for a manageable emergency
Posted on 8/13/16 at 9:09 pm to SEClint
Do people surround their entire house with them? What good we they do in front of the doors of the water comes through the walls?
Posted on 8/13/16 at 9:12 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
That's what I did at all my doors: used tarps and wrapped my stacked sandbags like a giant burrito, with maximum contact at the door jambs so hopefully nothing seeps through. We will see tomorrow.
Posted on 8/13/16 at 9:14 pm to Croacka
For a full on assault? Not much
Posted on 8/13/16 at 9:16 pm to Croacka
Sand works at the beach. Keeps the ocean from flooding the land.
Posted on 8/13/16 at 9:18 pm to UpToPar
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Do people surround their entire house with them?
Not from what I've seen
That would make more sense but it's pretty much not feasible.
Posted on 8/13/16 at 9:30 pm to Croacka
There was a famous picture showing a farm house surrounded by sand bag wall sitting in a what seemed like the middle of a lake. It was in the OH river valley, IIRC, when it flooded the Midwest.
As someone else mentioned, if you're trying to keep a few inches from coming inside, they can work. If you're keeping several feet at bay, it helps to have visqueen and several water pumps.
As someone else mentioned, if you're trying to keep a few inches from coming inside, they can work. If you're keeping several feet at bay, it helps to have visqueen and several water pumps.
Posted on 8/13/16 at 9:31 pm to Croacka
Between not effective at all and very effective?
Seriously, you're not blocking the water as much as you're trying to redirect it. I mean, you can do this:
...and say, "frick a flood."
But, anything short of that is just mitigation - nudging the water in the hope that it doesn't get high enough to inundate - buying time for it to recede and nothing more.
Seriously, you're not blocking the water as much as you're trying to redirect it. I mean, you can do this:
...and say, "frick a flood."
But, anything short of that is just mitigation - nudging the water in the hope that it doesn't get high enough to inundate - buying time for it to recede and nothing more.
Posted on 8/13/16 at 9:33 pm to Croacka
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How effective can sandbags really be?
For how it usually is sandbags work great but we're way past that now.
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